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For decades, Continental and Mercedes-AMG have been setting the standard for performance under real track conditions. They share more than just a passion for sports and thousands of sets of worn-out tires. It is a shared effort and a history written on the track: hundreds of hours driven under maximum G-forces, thousands of extreme situations, and one common denominator – total control and safety where speed begins.

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The most exciting partnership in motorsports

This partnership has over a century of history – and it’s still gaining momentum. As early as 1901, Karl Benz’s car, equipped with Continental tires, won the Nice-Salon-Nice race, marking the beginning of the first chapter in this shared story. Today, Mercedes-AMG and Continental Tires Poland come together where excitement, precision, and trust in technology matter most.

For the 2026 season, Mercedes-AMG has once again selected ContinentalSportContact7 tires for its AMG Experience training programs – UHP (ultra-high-performance) tires designed for driving with full sporting performance. Thanks to their adaptive tread pattern, Continental tires respond to driving style, ensuring maximum traction and stability even at very high speeds.

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Safety starts… on the track

Drivers who are passionate about fast cars and sports driving don’t learn on public roads. They train where there’s room to make mistakes – and a race track, under the guidance of professional instructors and race car drivers, is just such a place. However, the track isn’t just for experienced drivers – it’s for anyone who wants to begin their adventure with dynamic driving.

It is there, as you navigate one sharp turn after another, that driving ceases to be intuitive and becomes a conscious process – we begin not only to experience safety but also to plan for it.

In such conditions, drivers can better understand the car’s behavior – at the limit of traction, they learn to react to skidding, control oversteer, perform emergency braking correctly, and maintain control when fractions of a second matter. Participants also experience the car’s response to the activation of systems such as ABS, ESP, or ASR.

And this is precisely the role of the AMG Experience program, which has been developed over the years – a comprehensive training system used by an ever-growing number of drivers.

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14 years of partnership between Continental Tires Poland and Mercedes-AMG

Thousands of AMG Experience participants over the years

22,400 liters – that’s the total fuel consumption for all the AMG Experience training days

Over 3,000 tires have been tested since 2019

The AMG Driving Academy cars completed 91,520 turns on the track

Participants spent a total of 196,800 minutes in cars during track training sessions

Robert Hundla on Continental tires

„Even on the track, a tire has to be versatile. That’s because we started today’s training session on a wet track in light rain, only for the weather to change later and for us to ride on a dry track – even a hot one. (…) Most tires perform well on dry surfaces, but when the conditions change (rain or downpour), that’s when we really see if the tire works. What we value about your tires is that we can always be sure we’re getting the best possible tire for every condition, especially since it would be difficult for us to switch to “rain” tires or super tires during a training day when the surface is dry”

The role of tires in racing

Tires are the only point of contact between a car and the road – four surfaces the size of a sheet of paper that determine whether you’ll come out unscathed or lose control. At a critical moment, it all comes down to one thing: contact with the road.

On the track – and in real-world traffic – extreme situations happen in the blink of an eye: sudden braking, entering a turn too fast, an unexpected skid, or a wet road surface. That’s when the tire “works” the hardest: it maintains traction under maximum load, provides the driver with feedback on what’s happening with the car, offers a minimal margin that allows you to correct your line

A tire tread that "reads" your driving style

In modern sports tires, such as the Continental SportContact 7, the tread pattern is not random. It is a design engineered for specific driving scenarios:

outer zones / shoulders – responsible for cornering stability and lateral force transfer;

central circumferential grooves – help drain water and maintain control in variable conditions;

adaptive tread pattern – adapts to driving style and vehicle loads.

We encourage you to take the route from Autodrom Jastrząb to Silesia Ring

It’s over 300 km and just over a 3-hour drive. This route not only connects the two most important destinations on Poland’s motorsports map, but above all, it lets you experience how theory turns into practice.