Mercedes-Benz SLS AMG GT3 meets its father at Spa

Although today the letters of force and power when you go back four decades, almost nobody had heard of a garage as AMG tuning. That was until the tuner of Mercedes-Benz came to the race of 1971 24 Hours of Spa ... a luxury sedan. But not just any luxury sedan.

AMG has the 300 SEL 6.3, taken dashboard complete with wood and carpet, it bored to 6.8 liters and increased power to 428 hp and 448 lb-ft of torque. With a top speed of 164 mph, the car has qualified in fifth out of sixty entries and went to first place in its category and the second, beating the likes of Niki Lauda and Hans Stuck. It was a turning point that put the AMG on the map.

Hans Heyer was one of three pilots who crossed over at the wheel of the car the nickname "Red Pig" that fateful day. And now, 40 years later, his son Kenneth Heyer returned to Spa in a GT3, Mercedes-Benz AMG SLS fitting supplied with the original. It is a journey through memory lane of the history of AMG - but not the first - a consolidation of its first racing car to its most recent, seven, the bottom line is the challenge of his long-distance race this weekend in Belgium.