2017 Mercedes-AMG GT R Sets New Production Lap Record At Mount Panorama

Mercedes-AMG may not have won the Bathurst 12-Hour last weekend, but the German carmaker did leave Mount Panorama with at least one feather in its cap.

In the hands of German ace Bernd Schneider, the Mercedes-AMG GT R set a new lap record for production cars with a time of 2m16.5s around the 6.213km circuit.

This bettered the time set by another AMG GT, the GT S in 2015, by around eight seconds.

"I love the [AMG] GT R - I knew it would be a fast car, but it really feels at home here at Mount Panorama," Schneider said.

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