{"id":12755,"date":"2013-03-23T16:30:07","date_gmt":"2013-03-23T08:30:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.fastmotoring.com\/?p=12755"},"modified":"2013-03-23T16:30:07","modified_gmt":"2013-03-23T08:30:07","slug":"mercedes-benz-sls-amg-gt-and-c63-amg-estate-for-2013-f1-grand-prix","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fastmotoring.com\/index.php\/2013\/03\/mercedes-benz-sls-amg-gt-and-c63-amg-estate-for-2013-f1-grand-prix\/","title":{"rendered":"Mercedes-Benz SLS AMG GT and C63 AMG Estate for 2013 F1 Grand Prix"},"content":{"rendered":"<fb:like \n\t\thref=\"https:\/\/www.fastmotoring.com\/index.php\/2013\/03\/mercedes-benz-sls-amg-gt-and-c63-amg-estate-for-2013-f1-grand-prix\/\" \n\t\tlayout=\"button_count\" \n\t\tshow_faces=\"true\" \n\t\twidth=\"450\" \n\t\theight=\"30\"\n\t\taction=\"like\" \n\t\tcolorscheme=\"light\" \n\t\tstyle=\"margin-top:5px;\"\n\t\tclass=\"fb_edge_widget_with_comment fb_iframe_widget\"><\/fb:like><p>In the new 2013 F1 season, Mercedes-AMG deployed the SLS AMG GT with 591hp and the C63 AMG Estate with\u00a0487hp at the direction of Race Control officials usually when weather or incidents are considered to impact on the safety of a race. The two AMG high-performance cars had their first appearance at the opening race of the F1 season in Melbourne last weekend for 2013 F1 ROLEX Australian GP. The 2nd race of the F1 season, the 2013 Petronas Malaysia Grand Prix will take place this weekend.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.fastmotoring.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/13C307_01.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-12756\" alt=\"Mercedes-Benz; SLS AMG Safety Car; 2013\" src=\"http:\/\/www.fastmotoring.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/13C307_01-630x363.jpg\" width=\"630\" height=\"363\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.fastmotoring.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/13C307_01-630x363.jpg 630w, https:\/\/www.fastmotoring.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/13C307_01-300x172.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.fastmotoring.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/13C307_01.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 630px) 100vw, 630px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The main reasons for intervention by the Safety Car are poor weather conditions or accidents. The Official F1 Safety Car is driven by Bernd Mayl\u00e4nder from Germany and his co-driver, the FIA\u2011employee Pete Tibbetts from Great Britain.<\/p>\n<p>Bernd Mayl\u00e4nder: &#8220;We are on standby in the pit lane in the Official F1 Safety Car, waiting for a radio message from Race Control.&#8221; When the need arises, the aim is to guide the field safely around the track until the danger no longer exists. The racing driver from Schorndorf has been the official driver of the Safety Car for the FIA since 2000. As a former DTM driver he is also active as an instructor for the AMG Driving Academy and as a Mercedes-Benz brand ambassador at selected events.<\/p>\n<fb:like \n\t\thref=\"https:\/\/www.fastmotoring.com\/index.php\/2013\/03\/mercedes-benz-sls-amg-gt-and-c63-amg-estate-for-2013-f1-grand-prix\/\" \n\t\tlayout=\"button_count\" \n\t\tshow_faces=\"true\" \n\t\twidth=\"450\" \n\t\theight=\"30\"\n\t\taction=\"like\" \n\t\tcolorscheme=\"light\" \n\t\tstyle=\"margin-top:5px;\"\n\t\tclass=\"fb_edge_widget_with_comment fb_iframe_widget\"><\/fb:like>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the new 2013 F1 season, Mercedes-AMG deployed the SLS AMG GT with 591hp and the C63 AMG Estate with\u00a0487hp at the direction of Race Control officials usually when weather or incidents are considered to impact on the safety of a race. The two AMG high-performance cars had their first appearance at the opening race &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":12756,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[81,36,5],"tags":[8483,8516,6840,8512,8513,8511,8515,8514],"class_list":["post-12755","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","","category-formula-1","category-mercedes-benz","category-news","tag-2013-formula-one-grand-prix","tag-2013-petronas-malaysia-grand-prix","tag-bernd-maylander","tag-c63-amg-estate","tag-mercedes-benz-c63-amg-estate","tag-mercedes-benz-sls-amg-gt","tag-pete-tibbetts","tag-sls-amg-gt"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fastmotoring.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12755","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fastmotoring.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fastmotoring.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fastmotoring.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fastmotoring.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12755"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.fastmotoring.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12755\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12759,"href":"https:\/\/www.fastmotoring.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12755\/revisions\/12759"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fastmotoring.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12756"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fastmotoring.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12755"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fastmotoring.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12755"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fastmotoring.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12755"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}