Mercedes-AMG GT Track Series is a limited track sample

Almost two years ago, Mercedes-AMG released a version of the AMG GT that shook the supercar world to its foundations: the AMG GT Black Series. With its no less than 730 hp 4.0 biturbo V8, it came to the top of the AMG GT food chain in one fell swoop. Not surprisingly, you have to be in good shape to keep up with it on a circuit. Mercedes-AMG even set a track record for street-legal cars on the Nürburgring-Nordschleife. Now, however, there is still an AMG GT that also devours the Black Series: the Track Series.

There is one big caveat: you are not allowed on the public road with it. So he will not break the Nordschleife record of the Black Series, at least, the undoubtedly faster lap time that can be driven with it will be in another list. Above all, the Mercedes-AMG GT Track Series transfers the insane power of the Black Series – on which it is based – to the road surface as efficiently as possible. Mercedes-AMG provided the Track Series with even more intense wing work than the Black Series and stripped it of things such as electric windows and interior trim. The result is a 1,400 kg track monster that can compete with the GT3 and GT4 racers of this world.

Of course you want to be able to control such a monster well, but sometimes you don’t need electronic aids. That is why you can adjust the extent to which both the ABS and the traction control intervene. There are twelve positions, where the first position turns everything on, the last position switches the systems off completely. You control it all via rotary knobs on a carbon fiber panel, while you’re well buckled in bucket seats that seem to come straight from the racing. Of course, you also do not have a conventional steering wheel in your hands, but a specially developed one for the Track Series. If that, together with the extremely bare and purely functional dashboard, does not remind you that you have something special in your hands, then the various Track Series logos will take care of it, as will a plate that shows which of the 55 copies. you control.

Naturally, the AMG GT Track Series is also equipped with things that the FIA ​​prescribes for the GT racing classes. He has a five-point harness to strap yourself into the bucket seat, a roll cage, there is a fire extinguisher and there are nets that keep you in the car if things go wrong. The chance that you will need it is reduced as much as possible by specially developed steel brakes for racing, the balance of which can also be adjusted from within the car. The discs are hidden behind 18-inch wheels specially developed for the car.

As mentioned, Mercedes-AMG only builds 55 units of the Track Series. If you want to get one, you probably have to be quick and have money like water. It should cost at least €369,000 including taxes, just as much as €30,000 more than the Black Series costs here in the Netherlands.