How Mercedes Put an F1 Engine in a Road Car

Last week, the Mercedes AMG-One set a new lap record at the Nürburgring in Germany. Setting a record time of 6 minutes and 29 seconds. Beating the previous record from 2022, also held by the AMG-One, by 6 seconds.
There's a lot of incredible technology in this car, but the most interesting thing about it is undoubtedly the engine. For the first time ever, a manufacturer has put a real Formula 1 power unit into a road legal car.
In today's video I wanted to dig into how that was possible, and some of the changes that Mercedes-AMG had to make to take this 1,000 horsepower engine from the track to the streets.
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[@leventenagy4302]

I wouldn't be surprised if they're making a $3M loss on each one they sell

[@matthewgubbins8515]

And the rest. Aren't those f1 engines multiple millions before all the re-engineering of the engine plus the rest of the car

[@MuhammadNiz007]

Yes they are making this at like 5M$ loss ( the engine is supposedly 15M$ )

[@theairaccumulator7144]

@@MuhammadNiz007 that's probably together with the R&D spending, the engine itself likely costs much less. Not even an engine made of the most exotic alloys would cost $15m by itself. And F1 regs require basic materials to be used like aluminium and steel.

[@MJ-mw3ni]

@@matthewgubbins8515yes, but only if you build 6 engines per year + R&D Cost. In mass production they become significantly cheaper.

[@ikarian3612]

x 275 units. Guess halo cars bring in a lot of cash elsewhere...

[@_-TC]

Just a small correction: all teams had developed the MGU-H in 2014. Mercedes however was the only team to nail the split-turbo MGU-H concept, allowing it to run way more efficiently and cooler, while other manufacturers (RENAULT) were struggling with reliability and heat. That is what they did pioneer, then followed then by Honda and then Renault in 2022 (explaining their current power defecit, basically too limited testing for a new concept. Imagine if they could test more..) Strangely, Ferrari never adopted the split-turbo, which might work in their advtange as the 2026 engine regulations supposedly are canning the split-turbo idea!

[@Hudson2094]

He said Mercedes was the only team to hit the mark with the V6 hydrid engines in 2014

[@cyancut21]

It‘s said in the video as well though, from 6:42

[@spencertegtmeyer6525]

​@@cyancut21 yeah, I'm wondering if you can edit a KZbin video after posting, or if this is just a retarded comment.

[@Sangheili91]

I appreciate how you used the metric measurements and provided the standard equivalents when appropriate. It’s much easier to understand! 😏

[@logitech4873]

Metric is the standard though. What an odd thing to say.

[@Amm17ar]

I love when companies ask themselves......is this going to cost a lot of money, be nearly impossible, and probably not make its money back and the answer being an emphatic no....followed by.... but its cool, and fun so when do we start.

[@Jacob-do9yl]

Bro don’t stop making content. This is such high quality stuff and I can tell you put a lot of time into each video. Thank you for what you do

[@cyancut21]

The reason the AMG One was delivered to customers such a long time after its introduction and the acceptance of orders is because they basically had to develop ways to make the engine road-legal twice. They did it once but couldn’t finish the project as a whole fast enough before new emissions and especially noise regulations came into effect in the EU. So they had to acustically insulate the engine more which led to the cooling layout not working anymore so that had to be redesigned, the power delivery needed to be adjusted,…

[@viorelborgovan6725]

I love how detailed and technical this is. thank you!

[@leonkohli5745]

Nürburgring lap record is 5:19.55 minutes. It was set in a Porsche 919 Hybrid Evo

[@sasoperme]

...which is not a road legal car.

[@crackasaurus_rox9740]

Tired of people saying these engines rev to 15k in an f1. They simply don't.

[@jasonme3557]

what do they rev too?

[@gregspencer7287]

Mercedes took the worst aspect of modern F1, the engine, and put it in a “road car”. Aston Martin took all the best aspects and married them to a screaming N/A V12.

[@hoost3056]

To me, the Mercedes AMG One is the distilled essence of modern German engineering across the board. I used to be heavy into German cars until the excess complexity and unreliability turned me off. I now joke that the German engineers take powerful drugs before they design something. Two million for a car that can barely run consistently is an absolute joke.

[@mihneaiordan1813]

In a way, this is the quintessence of a hypercar. Ultra high tech for something that more likely than not will never see a track day

[@dustinfowler7868]

Great video explanation, neutral and informative, glad i clicked.

[@ms.shakaka7617]

I cannot wait to see this channel grow, its destined atp the content is so high quality. Good job!

[@cameronhamilton4304]

Someone watches Veritasium, hehe. Nice vid!

[@jonahshill7084]

F1 engines don’t seize when they are cold. They just experience accelerated wear because of somewhat increased friction

[@HATECELL]

Can't wait for someone to LS-Swap that thing

[@z4k1_zaki65]

Keep dreaming, the package is so tight, plus the engine is part of the chassis

[@3masouri]

Highly unlikely to happen in our lifetime

[@MrEo89]

I knew I heard that elevator background music somewhere. Veritasium is that you?

[@jacobpage3865]

Great quality video but your knowledge is lacking if I'm honest. There are about 15 point you have incorrect in this video. The amg one can do about 5-10thousand k before rebuild/replacement. Amg have been open about this. Along with a bunch of other things you have incorrect like current engine starting procedures are much different to what you described. F1 cars don't idle at 5thousand rpm at the start line... the driver increases the revs to around 10 thousand as current f1 cars idle between 5-7 thousand rpm.

[@MJ-mw3ni]

The engine rebuild is after 50.000km or did the first cars had to do dis earlier than advertised?

[@RobertSmith-le8wp]

I still think the F50 being based off the Ferrari 640 or the TAG Turbos installed in those 930 Porsches was much cooler than this. Even Ferrari realized to make it more streetable you needed to bump the compression

[@peterGraumüller-x4f]

I went... and I came here...I am here now😊

[@bishopdredd5349]

Didnt Koenigsegg already have pneumatic actuators, called Freevalve technology?

[@LeeMooEez]

different LOL

[@jaky3]

Funny how this can't be sold in the US, but the Cybertruck can. Just goes to show they care nothing about pedestrians.

[@logitech4873]

F-150s and similar trucks have way worse forward visibility than the cybertruck. Might as well ban all 5-seater pick up trucks, it's a pointless class of vehicle.

[@LeeMooEez]

18-30k? did they change it from 50k?🧐

[@laworder2652]

Id buy one with a 100k km warranty 😅

[@G55STEYR]

Wrong engine, it should have a SAR1006ci / 16.5 liter V8

[@zsu-23-4shilka2]

Mercedes: “Our new hypercar has a highly advanced Formula 1 powerplant!” Porsche: “That explains why it needs a full rebuild after just 5-10,000 miles.” _laughs in 911s with 200k mi odometers_

[@Hudson2094]

Dumb comment🤡

[@MJ-mw3ni]

The rebuild is necessary after 50.000km. But thats not the point, nobody on the world thinks, that a f1 engine is a longterm, cheap to operate engineering masterpiece.

[@permanentlybored195]

can hardly call it a road legal car with the reliability.

[@adamfrbs9259]

Be a decade before Goonsquad can afford a wrecked one. Lol

[@Tylermattrazzo]

Very American, freedom but restrict this street legal loophole that no one would buy anyway

[@pkplayer358]

F1 V6 engines rev to 11.000 rpm, and turbo motors make their power relatively low in the rpm range (unless the turbo is way too big for the engine, hence twin turbo was invented with 2 smaller turbo's spooling up way faster as 1 big one) please do your research more before making a video.

[@gottliebdee263]

Not for me. Mind you neither is F1 these days. Maybe I'm too old and unwilling to change but the days of the V10s and V12s were real F1 for me. We seem to have lost so much. This AMG 1 is pretty awful looking, (and sounding), inside and out and personally I'd much rather have a much more comfortable and pretty 'every day supercar' as lets face it the vast majority of pretty much everybody's time behind the wheel is spend not driving and cornering at ludicrous speeds. Take a Pagani Utopia hands down.

[@akarilotube]

1700 Kilos?

[@indica8510]

So can the average street racer get one on loan and just use it for winning other cars then pay it off or isn’t it fast enough and Mercedes’ can’t put their car on pawn. Seriously gps and modern cars on modern roads with just basically dead shits everywhere the racing should be broad cast live online by a high pay subscription they only race when the payment opens up the street track. They sort of showed people how to do it on the fast and the furious Tokyo drift. From street racing I’m still owed a A9X Torana. A9X with a stroked 308 with modern turbo style supercharger fully worked with Bathurst style suspension. I’d race that on the street.

[@theairaccumulator7144]

Lol ain't no one loaning you a $2 mil hypercar

[@Rajonas007]

They don't sound like F1 or look special. I would not waste my money on one

[@JESTERFISH1]

And Mercedes will sell all of these very limited run cars and could probably sell double or triple the number as there are people who will pay many many pounds dollars or yen for exclusivity

[@jamesdungan6198]

You forgot to mention that it's still sounds like an F1 s*** engine

[@logitech4873]

"setting a new lap record" is misleading. Without context, people may believe that this car has the overall record at the Nürburgring. It's not the overall record at all, not even close. That's as far into the video I got.

[@Lekkerlars]

1700 kg really. It's not good.

[@MJ-mw3ni]

Euro 6. Bevor it had 1380kg which was phenomenal to drive as incredible quick.

[@alexstromberg7696]

@@MJ-mw3nieuro 6 has nothing to do with weight

[@MJ-mw3ni]

@@alexstromberg7696 so completely reworking the emission reduction system, adding two additional cats, a ton of electronic, a heating system, bigger Batterie for the heating system, a stronger suspension, thicker Bolts, extra Carbonfiber layer, adds no weight? Stupid to think that.

[@alexstromberg7696]

@@MJ-mw3ni in that way yes it adds weight but most of the weight is from the crash protection. Suspension isnt part of euro 6, euro 6 is emissions nothing else.

[@MJ-mw3ni]

@@alexstromberg7696 suspension part because the extra weight of the emission cleaning leads to more weight the suspension has to carrie therefore it had to be done stronger wich needs more material and therefore weight. Not much (about 5-10kg but all the extra steps lead to the increased eight of 200-300kg which the project one didn’t had. (The car presented 2017, now it’s the amg one which the changed they had to made.

[@malakiblunt]

this is so pointlless even more so now F1 engines are so souless and boring -

[@dbmooo]

Agreed

[@MyMintus]

Its a one off. You may not like the engine sound but this is technological art.

[@dbmooo]

@@MyMintus maybe, but F1 sucks since v6 engines. I watch F1 since 87 and was never this boring.

[@Amm17ar]

Oh shut it. As much as I love the screaming engines of years past....but the point of this project was that it was pointless. They asked themselves if it could be done and they did it....because they could. Its engineers and designers having free reign to think past traditional limits. If you think F1 is boring and souless because the engines arent as loud, you were never a F1 fan to begin with and if you think this cars pointless, I feel bad for all the amazing things in life you cant enjoy because they don't perfectly appeal to what you deem worthy.

[@dbmooo]

@@Amm17ar like your own comment is kind loser thing to do 🤣 F1 sucks long time ago not just because of engines, but regulation that keep the races not competitive as before. For your stupid comment you started to watch just few years ago.

[@PurpleLEANKrabs]

If its engine is so small,why is the car fat

[@sennadesillva]

There's this thing that people who drive cars, started caring about back in the 70's called "safety". It's pretty neat and can be helpful once in a while. There might, maaaaybe be a video or 2 on here that can explain it to those who are new to the concept of automobiles (or "motor carriages" as I suspect you would call one). I suggest watching one of them. Both informative and entertaining. :)

[@muffies]

Tight tolerances, building to the limit of what the engine can make before it explod.

[@MJ-mw3ni]

Euro 6 emission.