Schneider v Bathurst

We saw the teaser and now Mercedes-Benz has released the full video of Bernd Schneider's monumental lap of Mount Panorama in the new AMG GT S supercar.

Shot during the largest and most expensive AMG customer event ever held in Australia last month, before the official launch of the GT S super-coupe this week, the video shows the German touring car legend in full flight at the epic 6.2km Bathurst road circuit.

It shows Schneider, who won the 2013 Bathurst 12 Hour in a Mercedes-Benz SLS AMG GT3, wrestling front- and rear-end slides and clocking a cool 282km/h on Conrod Straight.

Perhaps more importantly, the AMG ambassador, who describes Bathurst as like a mini-Nurburgring but without the run-off, sets a lap time of just 2:24.03.

While that's not a new production car lap record (according to Wikipedia, that honour stays with Scott Bargwanna, who clocked 2:15.58 in a Lotus Elise HPE in April 2011), it's still mighty impressive.

To put it into perspective, 2:24 is more than half a second quicker than the long-running 2:24.60 GT Production record set by Neil Crompton in a Ferrari F355 in November 1998, and three seconds off the current Improved Production time of 2:21.00 set by Ray Hislop in a Ford BF Falcon in February this year.

But of course it's more than 16 seconds slower than the current V8 Supercar lap record (2:07.49 held by Chaz Mostert in a Ford FG Falcon since October 2014), and over 20 seconds slower than the current outright Bathurst lap record – 2:02.67 set by Simon Hodge in a Mygale M11 Mercedes-Benz F3 car in April last year.

There's also the GT3 sports car lap record of 2:03.30 set by Markus Winkelhock in an Audi R8 LMS Ultra at this year's Bathurst 12 Hour, not to mention the unofficial lap record of a staggering 1:48.88 – set by Jenson Button as part of a publicity stunt in the Vodafone McLaren MP4-23 on its way to the 2011 Australian F1 GP.