It wasn’t even two months ago that Porsche’s GT Department head, Andreas Preuninger, mentioned how he and his team were no longer focused on lap-times.
“We are taking a lot of care about the driving emotion,” said Preuninger, in an interview with Road & Track. “Not so much stubbornly, seriously, German-ly chasing lap time, lap time, lap time,” he said with a mock stern voice. “At least, that’s not my intention anymore.”
Fast forward to today, and it’s possible he spoke just a bit too soon as Porsche just sent us a press release titled, “7 minutes, 12.7 seconds: The 911 GT3 sets a new best time“. The “best time” that title’s referring to? That’s the time it took the new 911 GT3 to get around the Nürburgring Nordschleife. For those that are keeping score, that’s 12.3 seconds faster than the time set by the previous model. Not bad for a car that only saw a 25 horsepower increase and no real weight reduction to speak of. Watch (and listen) for yourself in the video below.
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What does the yellow dot indicate?
G-force and the direction in which it is occurring.
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The driver is beautifully smooth at those insane speeds...take note DE students, "smooth is fast". :-)
I am surprised the GT3 could only just get over 280 ks on the long straight and the driver did not shift into 7th at all or earlier and us more of the engine torque lower in the rev range instead of revving close to 8500 rpm in 6th. Having said this, who am i sitting in my chair commenting on the drive which looked to me pretty close to perfect.
I would like any comment on what i have just said, you have to love the engine noise i could listen to that day and night just bliss.
After watching the GT3 going around the track at the speed you would have to have driven the Ring a few times and not a first timer, just enjoyable to watch and listen.