Mercedes-AMG Project ONE prototype testing

For several months, the development of the Mercedes-AMG Project ONE show car, presented at IAA 2017, had been intensively worked on behind closed doors. In a highly complex, digital development process ("Project ONE Virtual Engineering"), a transnational project team quietly worked towards its common goal: putting Formula 1 hybrid technology on the road.

Hundreds of testing hours have already been spent to master the immense challenge of making the high-performance drive unit ready for series production: engine specialists at Mercedes-AMG High Performance Powertrains in Brixworth, England have subjected the whole powertrain including all hybrid components to the toughest race track tests on their high-performance dynamometer.

The successful completion of the dynamometer tests was followed by the installation of the highly complex powertrain into the first prototypes, which since then have been driving around unnoticed on a secret test ground in England. Today it turns out to be more difficult to keep this testing confidential: the camouflaged prototypes of the Mercedes-AMG hypercar are still being driven on closed off test grounds and racetracks. However, because of their specific and very characteristic F1 sound they are hard to keep from the public.

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