The Mercedes SLR is one of the fastest cars on the road. But while at the Goodwood festival of speed i came across the Mclaren Mercedes SLR race car. This car looks stunning as a road car but just looked really mean as a race car, it looks like it could actually eat up the road!

The car has SLR carbon ceramic brakes which Mercedes claim are fade resistant to 1,200 degrees c. The ceramic brakes are needed when you consider the mount of power the car has under the bonnet. The Mercedes SLR has 5.4 litre engine as standard which is a supercharged V8. The V8 engine powers the car from 0-62 MPH in 3.2 seconds. and goes to 224 mph top speed. The SLR is similar in speed to the Porsche Carrera GT around a track but personally i think the SLR is far better looking and sounds fantastic. The SLR racing car especially looks like its ment to be driven on the track hard. Lewis Hamilton drove the Mercedes SLR up the Goodwood hill climb on Sunday 13th July 2008, although i havent got footage of Lewis at Goodwood yet…..check out the video below of Lewis Hamilton doing a hotlap on the Mercedes SLR.