Present Components 1 drivers’ championship chief Kimi Antonelli has made his Goodwood Competition of Velocity debut, capping off a busy week that included the British Grand Prix, a go to to Wimbledon and tyre testing at Silverstone.
Showing on the Pirelli fan zone stage, the Italian driver was fast to confess that he ignored directions to take it simple throughout his maiden run up the well-known Goodwood hillclimb. “They advised me to go gradual, however after all I didn’t pay attention,” Antonelli joked. “I simply tried to push, nevertheless it was good.”
He added: “It is my first time, and I’ve received to return dwelling tonight sadly, however positively I am coming again subsequent yr, and hopefully I can benefit from the weekend extra, the expertise extra as a result of it is simply so cool. So many cool race automobiles, and it is the center of motorsport. So, it is actually cool to be right here.”
Antonelli received behind the wheel of the Mercedes-AMG PureSpeed for his run up the hillclimb. The 2-seater, which serves because the inaugural mannequin for the marque’s ultra-exclusive Mythos collection, attracts inspiration from F1.
It forgoes the standard roof and windscreen in favour of a motorsport-inspired halo. The PureSpeed is powered by a 4.0-litre twin-turbocharged V8 engine with 800Nm of torque. It accelerates from zero to 100km/h in simply 3.6 seconds and may attain a high velocity of 315km/h. Solely 250 models of the PureSpeed have been launched, making it an ultra-rare piece of equipment.
The PureSpeed additionally comes with two aerodynamically optimised helmets, which have been designed particularly for the speedster. The helmets function an intercom communication system to permit the driving force and passenger to speak and hearken to music, and they’re going to come within the color chosen for the automobile.
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