**Bernie Schneider Takes the AMG GT to its Limits**

The AMG GT is a car that doesn't always get its due respect, but when it's driven by a skilled driver like Bernie Schneider, it becomes clear just how impressive it can be. In this review, we'll take a closer look at the AMG GT and see what makes it tick.

**A Bumpy Circuit Demands Precision**

The circuit that Bernie is driving on today is quite bumpy, which requires precision handling and control from the driver. The soft mode setting adds to the challenge, as it provides a lot of body lean and bounce. However, this doesn't seem to faze Bernie, who expertly navigates the corners with ease. He notes that the car feels like a front mid-engined car, with the engine positioned well back in the chassis.

**The Engine Sounds Unique**

One of the most striking features of the AMG GT is its engine sound. It's more akin to a highly tuned 4-cylinder than an V8, and Bernie compares it to a "really highly tuned 4 loads of pickup". He also mentions that there was some GT3 racing here not long ago, which explains the hit underneath his steering wheel.

**Light Steering with Serious Grip**

The steering is light and responsive, but Bernie notes that there's still plenty of grip at the front. This makes it easy to adjust the chassis to suit different driving styles. He finds that trailing the brakes into corners helps keep weight on the nose and loads up the rear end, giving him more traction.

**TC can be a Bit Grumpy**

However, Traction Control (TC) can be a bit grumpy at times, pushing the car understeer if the driver doesn't get the corner exit right. Bernie has to adjust the TC settings to find the perfect balance of power and traction.

**A Car that Rewards Smooth Driving**

One of the things we love about the AMG GT is its ability to reward smooth driving. Once Bernie gets the front end planted, he can start to mess around with the rear end, finding just the right amount of grip and traction to take the corner at a pace that feels very faithful. The car feels like it's been designed for this kind of racing.

**A Black Series Car that Gets it Right**

We're glad that Bernie's taken the AMG GT out for a spin, as we think it's a really impressive track car. It's not just a grand tourer with some sporty settings - it's a genuine racing car that feels like it was designed for this kind of thing.

**In Conclusion...**

It's been great having Bernie Schneider on the show, and we're glad that he's shared his experience with us today. The AMG GT is certainly a unique car that deserves more attention, and we think that this review has shown just how impressive it can be when driven by someone who knows what they're doing.

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"WEBVTTKind: captionsLanguage: enright hello welcome to the inside of an amg gt black series mercedes amg gt black series uh which i've just got in i'm at the laositz ring which is in eastern germany and the black series as you may well know is the pinnacle of an amg model range chief among the things you would probably want to know is it's got 730 uh ps 800 newton meters and that is from a flat plane crank by turbo v8 rather than the cross plane crank so the normal v8 as you know sounds very rumbly this will not sound very rumbly because flat plane cranks are different so instead of the bubble but woofer you get more like a ferrari so you'll probably hear that as we go and that usually helps engines rev a bit higher i don't quite understand the physics for that but i'll get on top of that and then there's a load of aero i think what i'm going to do is i'm going to cut away and do a rather informal walk around i hope you'll forgive the informality of that but there's loads to talk about in terms of the way the air moves around places okay so forgive the slightly informal nature of this but the man who designed the arrow for this has designed the arrow for the gt3 car so he knows what he's doing now first thing to note is that there is this splitter at the front and you'll see it's pulled out here these are you do not have to put in but they put in for use on track uh today and you can do that you have to get on the ground and release two levers and pull it out yourself this here this metal plate hang on there we go this metal plate here uh is attached to a little is attached to a strip which actually the air sucks it sucks this down as you're on circuit in a way you can't pull it with your bare hands i've tried on a model i've tried to literally try to pull it down and you can't do it it sucks it down and in braking zones places like the northlighter it will actually spark which is cool so the grill is larger which lets in more cooling air puts in uh more air to the to the engine as well this is shaped this little thing here actually develops a couple of kilos of downforce now i didn't close the bottom for a very good very good reason in the right so in here the radiator is angled over it's upright in an amg gti it's angled over which gives it more room to be larger but as significant is the way that nice thing here creates a seal with that being there so when you are stationary if you've been on track one of the cooling issues with an engine which makes 730 horsepower is how you get cool air to it all the time now the fan in here rotates that means the air swirls and what they initially found is that uh in um when they're assimilating it is that one bank of cylinders got cooler than the other which is why these exist these are not for fun what they do is they then direct air over the engine in a straight fashion to cool it evenly and when the bonnet is shut and the engine's not moving they've got what they call this little snorkel here which is a snorkel there which directs air into there through that bit there and out and over the engine and then underneath the body uh sorry underneath yes out over the engine underneath the body and the body is not does not have an underbody cover like a race car for that reason you've got to get the hot air out from underneath it so if you stroll down the side of the car uh the air goes into the wheel arches as it sometimes would there's turbulence along the side as there sometimes is and we get to this rather enormous rear wing now if you look at this rear wing and the profile of the gt3 car rear wing and i give it a slight feel i don't know how much you can see that's the profile of that the profile of this is actually even thicker this has several different positions it can be in and this flat here um isn't it sort of low mode when you're absolutely when you're absolutely on it flat out in a straight line but if you're in race mode and you start braking up it comes or if you start cornering up it comes to give you front and rear balanced downfalls these things here this is the interesting thing the motors for this are all in this top panel of wing and then these struts here are joined into the boot into another set of struts which means that the weight from the rear wing comes down onto the boot floor and into the chassis and that means that the bloke who designed this rear wing uh sorry this bootlet did not have to worry about the fact that 500 kilograms of downforce would be going onto his boot it would just go straight down into the chassis instead and that is the clever active aerodynamics for active aerodynamics active and passive aerodynamics um on the gt car and it is allowed to be this good by the fact that the same air dynamicist did both in fact he says the rear wing on the road car is more efficient so you'll notice the gt3 car has its hot air coming out here in one big scoop on the road car hot air comes out this side and is directed down towards the a-pillars this side directs the door they've at those airports so the air the cold air the good cold air that you really want coming over the bonnet is the stuff that acts on the rear wing so it's actually more efficient it has a drag coefficient of 0.42 cd and whether you have these three position rear wings in their street or race mode can make up to 300 kilograms difference of total downforce on this car it is aerodynamically a real whiz okay i will i will uh talk to the guy behind you okay cool and then perfect thanks okay so that is uh dtm and gt legend bernie schneider who uh he will lead i will follow he goes quite fast so that's good news go faster than i can unsurprisingly so he says stay in esp on esp sport maro engel earlier said well look if you want to go esc off a bit you can i've already put it in the sc sport because you can feel it immediately cutting in right so this is quite a bumpy circuit and on this soft mode you get quite a lot of body lean from this gt there is a little bit of a little bounce the bonnet's very long it's nearly two meters long but the engine is sat well back in it so it does feel slightly sort of front mid-engined rather than front engine and that engine sounds totally different doesn't it to how the amg v8 usually sounds more like a really highly tuned 4 loads of pickup on this circuit i think there was some gt3 racing here not that long ago so you can feel that hit underneath the steering is light the brakes are seriously good loads of feedback just feel that body movement i may when i get a moment it's quite a busy circuit try and put the dampers into sports mode just for the abs kick in ever so slightly it's got that nice balance that front engine cars do have but once you get the front planted you can start to mess around a little bit with the rear end now it's not resting around that much because the esc is on sports plus but if you're smooth with it you just feel it start to go revs to about seven right see if i can get those sports plus dampers on that's better yeah the steering is light but there's grip at the front and once it's in you can start to play around with the chassis that feels quite faithful i think it probably pays to trail the brakes into corners to keep some weight on the nose and keep that loaded and it's mighty fast the gear shifts do that curious mercedes thing where you don't always get the shift you want straight away it's funny how it does that whereas in a gt porsche or something like that you ask you get sometimes there's a wii delay on this right i think i've just turned the sc on i'm trying to turn it all off let's hold that now right now i've got tc on instead so that puts control over to a little dial in the center of the wheel which should allow the chassis to move around a little bit more it feels probably a heavier car i would think than say a 911 porsche a gt3 or gt3 rs or something but there's a tiny bit of understeer if you don't get the corner exit right it does push on ever so slightly traction control is quite grumpy here let's see if i can adjust that i don't know what i've adjusted it too a little bit of understeer in the higher speed corners but there's enough power to just sort of balance it out on the throttle and it just has that i really what i really like is that sort of balance of front to rear large gt cars front engine sports cars happen don't forget this is you know the clues in the name it's called the amg gt they've taken what is a wide civilized hot roddy sort of car and turned it into a track sports car that rewards and appreciates a smooth driving style and if you give it that you end up with something which is perfect lap says i think he's being generous yeah it takes that sort of brutish gt attitude tries to make it into a sports car feels like they've sort of tried to infuse some race car feel to it what i what i really like about it is once you get the front in and it's settled then you can adjust it i mean i haven't gone wild but you can adjust you can feel the power just straightening the line in very sort of faithful fashion uh it's really good it's really good amg doesn't always get its spot on with its black series models slk was a weird old car but then the clk black was absolutely fabulous sl was a curious thing and i never drove an sls but this is a really impressive track track car in a way that well yeah it is it is in the sort of gt3 rs porsche sort of and you can't argue with the effort they've gone to with the engine and the aero there is loads of engineering into it and as a result turns out it's really good thanks for joining me you can like subscribe blah blah blah we'd appreciate that very much we'll be back with more sensible car reviews news motor shows not that there are many of those these days and other events and features twin tests very soon we're autocad at cody uk all good news agents thanks for watching see you next timeright hello welcome to the inside of an amg gt black series mercedes amg gt black series uh which i've just got in i'm at the laositz ring which is in eastern germany and the black series as you may well know is the pinnacle of an amg model range chief among the things you would probably want to know is it's got 730 uh ps 800 newton meters and that is from a flat plane crank by turbo v8 rather than the cross plane crank so the normal v8 as you know sounds very rumbly this will not sound very rumbly because flat plane cranks are different so instead of the bubble but woofer you get more like a ferrari so you'll probably hear that as we go and that usually helps engines rev a bit higher i don't quite understand the physics for that but i'll get on top of that and then there's a load of aero i think what i'm going to do is i'm going to cut away and do a rather informal walk around i hope you'll forgive the informality of that but there's loads to talk about in terms of the way the air moves around places okay so forgive the slightly informal nature of this but the man who designed the arrow for this has designed the arrow for the gt3 car so he knows what he's doing now first thing to note is that there is this splitter at the front and you'll see it's pulled out here these are you do not have to put in but they put in for use on track uh today and you can do that you have to get on the ground and release two levers and pull it out yourself this here this metal plate hang on there we go this metal plate here uh is attached to a little is attached to a strip which actually the air sucks it sucks this down as you're on circuit in a way you can't pull it with your bare hands i've tried on a model i've tried to literally try to pull it down and you can't do it it sucks it down and in braking zones places like the northlighter it will actually spark which is cool so the grill is larger which lets in more cooling air puts in uh more air to the to the engine as well this is shaped this little thing here actually develops a couple of kilos of downforce now i didn't close the bottom for a very good very good reason in the right so in here the radiator is angled over it's upright in an amg gti it's angled over which gives it more room to be larger but as significant is the way that nice thing here creates a seal with that being there so when you are stationary if you've been on track one of the cooling issues with an engine which makes 730 horsepower is how you get cool air to it all the time now the fan in here rotates that means the air swirls and what they initially found is that uh in um when they're assimilating it is that one bank of cylinders got cooler than the other which is why these exist these are not for fun what they do is they then direct air over the engine in a straight fashion to cool it evenly and when the bonnet is shut and the engine's not moving they've got what they call this little snorkel here which is a snorkel there which directs air into there through that bit there and out and over the engine and then underneath the body uh sorry underneath yes out over the engine underneath the body and the body is not does not have an underbody cover like a race car for that reason you've got to get the hot air out from underneath it so if you stroll down the side of the car uh the air goes into the wheel arches as it sometimes would there's turbulence along the side as there sometimes is and we get to this rather enormous rear wing now if you look at this rear wing and the profile of the gt3 car rear wing and i give it a slight feel i don't know how much you can see that's the profile of that the profile of this is actually even thicker this has several different positions it can be in and this flat here um isn't it sort of low mode when you're absolutely when you're absolutely on it flat out in a straight line but if you're in race mode and you start braking up it comes or if you start cornering up it comes to give you front and rear balanced downfalls these things here this is the interesting thing the motors for this are all in this top panel of wing and then these struts here are joined into the boot into another set of struts which means that the weight from the rear wing comes down onto the boot floor and into the chassis and that means that the bloke who designed this rear wing uh sorry this bootlet did not have to worry about the fact that 500 kilograms of downforce would be going onto his boot it would just go straight down into the chassis instead and that is the clever active aerodynamics for active aerodynamics active and passive aerodynamics um on the gt car and it is allowed to be this good by the fact that the same air dynamicist did both in fact he says the rear wing on the road car is more efficient so you'll notice the gt3 car has its hot air coming out here in one big scoop on the road car hot air comes out this side and is directed down towards the a-pillars this side directs the door they've at those airports so the air the cold air the good cold air that you really want coming over the bonnet is the stuff that acts on the rear wing so it's actually more efficient it has a drag coefficient of 0.42 cd and whether you have these three position rear wings in their street or race mode can make up to 300 kilograms difference of total downforce on this car it is aerodynamically a real whiz okay i will i will uh talk to the guy behind you okay cool and then perfect thanks okay so that is uh dtm and gt legend bernie schneider who uh he will lead i will follow he goes quite fast so that's good news go faster than i can unsurprisingly so he says stay in esp on esp sport maro engel earlier said well look if you want to go esc off a bit you can i've already put it in the sc sport because you can feel it immediately cutting in right so this is quite a bumpy circuit and on this soft mode you get quite a lot of body lean from this gt there is a little bit of a little bounce the bonnet's very long it's nearly two meters long but the engine is sat well back in it so it does feel slightly sort of front mid-engined rather than front engine and that engine sounds totally different doesn't it to how the amg v8 usually sounds more like a really highly tuned 4 loads of pickup on this circuit i think there was some gt3 racing here not that long ago so you can feel that hit underneath the steering is light the brakes are seriously good loads of feedback just feel that body movement i may when i get a moment it's quite a busy circuit try and put the dampers into sports mode just for the abs kick in ever so slightly it's got that nice balance that front engine cars do have but once you get the front planted you can start to mess around a little bit with the rear end now it's not resting around that much because the esc is on sports plus but if you're smooth with it you just feel it start to go revs to about seven right see if i can get those sports plus dampers on that's better yeah the steering is light but there's grip at the front and once it's in you can start to play around with the chassis that feels quite faithful i think it probably pays to trail the brakes into corners to keep some weight on the nose and keep that loaded and it's mighty fast the gear shifts do that curious mercedes thing where you don't always get the shift you want straight away it's funny how it does that whereas in a gt porsche or something like that you ask you get sometimes there's a wii delay on this right i think i've just turned the sc on i'm trying to turn it all off let's hold that now right now i've got tc on instead so that puts control over to a little dial in the center of the wheel which should allow the chassis to move around a little bit more it feels probably a heavier car i would think than say a 911 porsche a gt3 or gt3 rs or something but there's a tiny bit of understeer if you don't get the corner exit right it does push on ever so slightly traction control is quite grumpy here let's see if i can adjust that i don't know what i've adjusted it too a little bit of understeer in the higher speed corners but there's enough power to just sort of balance it out on the throttle and it just has that i really what i really like is that sort of balance of front to rear large gt cars front engine sports cars happen don't forget this is you know the clues in the name it's called the amg gt they've taken what is a wide civilized hot roddy sort of car and turned it into a track sports car that rewards and appreciates a smooth driving style and if you give it that you end up with something which is perfect lap says i think he's being generous yeah it takes that sort of brutish gt attitude tries to make it into a sports car feels like they've sort of tried to infuse some race car feel to it what i what i really like about it is once you get the front in and it's settled then you can adjust it i mean i haven't gone wild but you can adjust you can feel the power just straightening the line in very sort of faithful fashion uh it's really good it's really good amg doesn't always get its spot on with its black series models slk was a weird old car but then the clk black was absolutely fabulous sl was a curious thing and i never drove an sls but this is a really impressive track track car in a way that well yeah it is it is in the sort of gt3 rs porsche sort of and you can't argue with the effort they've gone to with the engine and the aero there is loads of engineering into it and as a result turns out it's really good thanks for joining me you can like subscribe blah blah blah we'd appreciate that very much we'll be back with more sensible car reviews news motor shows not that there are many of those these days and other events and features twin tests very soon we're autocad at cody uk all good news agents thanks for watching see you next time\n"