Porsche has a behavior of destroying lap occasions on the Nurburgring Nordschleife. The 911 GT3 has already been across the observe in file time. Nevertheless, on this event, Porsche determined to take the 6-speed handbook model as a substitute of the PDK. The consequence was a brand new lap file for a manufacturing automobile with a handbook transmission.
The Porsche 911 GT3 geared up with a 6-speed stick shift accomplished a lap of the Nurburgring in 6 min 56.294 seconds, bettering on the earlier file by greater than 9.5 seconds. It was 3 seconds faster than its PDK-equipped predecessor (992.1).
The automobile used for the file run was geared up with the Weissach package deal and was on road-legal Michelin Pilot Sport Cup2 R tires.
“The brand new 911 GT3 evokes much more confidence on the restrict than the earlier mannequin. I used to be quicker in virtually each nook,” says Jörg Bergmeister, describing the dealing with of the sports activities automobile. “We discovered lots from the 911 GT3 RS, particularly with the chassis. The automobile is way more steady on bumps and over the curbs. And because of the eight-per-cent-shorter gear ratio, there may be noticeably extra drive from the rear axle when accelerating with the identical engine energy. Even when it could have been a number of seconds quicker with the seven-speed PDK – with the six-speed handbook gearbox I positively had extra to do on the quick lap – and it was subsequently much more enjoyable.”
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