The sun is in their eyes, their tires are shot, they both have passengers, and they're running the last session of the day. The circumstances are perfect for Jeff Cook and his talented student, Mr. Yellow, to put in a few drifty laps in their lemon-lime pairing of 991 GT3 RS. Cook, a former formula car racer who helps his students find frightening …
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Gorilla Glass: Lighter, Stronger and Coming Soon to Your Next New Porsche
Porsche has been dedicated to pioneering modern components and exotic materials for decades, employing new technology well before other manufacturers in many instances. Innovative materials like high-strength steel, deep-drawn sheet steel, light alloys like aluminum and magnesium, and featherweight plastics have been put into production by Porsche. …
Continue to the full articlePorsche’s New 911 GT3 RS Challenge Aims To Turn Gamers Into Real Life Racers
Racing video games get consistently more accurate and true to real-life physics with each new generation, and for at least a decade gamers have been plucked up from their couches and thrust into the driver's seat of a race car only to prove that they can be quite successful. Nissan and Playstation partnered for a program to develop new drivers, and …
Continue to the full articlePorsche 991 GT3 RS Taken Out By Weaving Proton Driver
Dashcam footage out of Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia yesterday shows a careless driver in a Malaysian-built Proton weaving through traffic at breakneck speeds ultimately ending with the passing car smashing into the race-inspired Porsche and both cars ending up in the barrier. It's clear to see what the driver of the Proton was attempting to do here, but …
Continue to the full articleNext Generation GT3 RS Leaked Ahead Of Geneva Motor Show Unveiling
The new GT3 RS has been prematurely shown off to the internet via Australia's DRIVE website (it's since been pulled). Fortunately, others grabbed it before it went down and now it's everywhere as these Porsche factory press release photos seem to indicate (at least they appear to be factory photos). The car will allegedly make its official debut at …
Continue to the full articleLEGO 911 GT3 RS Fails Crash Test in Spectacular Fashion
What happens when you crash a LEGO Porsch 911 GT3 RS in a similar fashion to the way car manufacturers perform crash tests for production models? That was the question the crazy crew at c't Magazine (one of Germany's larger computer magazines) asked themselves when coming up with the idea for this test. Here in the States we have …
Continue to the full articleThese are the Top 5 motorsport technologies that have transferred to the road according to Porsche
Every Porsche has a strong connection to the brand's motorsports history, even if not all have been used in competition. The advances Porsche makes in motorsports frequently make their way to the brand's road cars, and often quickly. The racing variant of the 356 introduced a fully synchronized gearbox in 1951, and the technology appeared in the …
Continue to the full articleJörg Bergmeister Tears Up Porsche’s New Test Track, The Kyalami Circuit, In A 911 GT3 RS
Back in the summer of 2014 Porsche purchased the historic South African track, Kyalami Circuit. At the time of the purchase we speculated as to what their intent might be. Now, near 19 months later, we know. Porsche has completely renovated the track and this past week hosted media from around the world to test drive the new 2017 911 Turbo and …
Continue to the full articleThis Video Is All 911 GT3 RS. No Voiceover, No Soundtrack. Just A Porsche As It’s Meant To Be
Usually when we see videos with hi production values they're accompanied by a reviewer explaining just how incredible it is to be them and drive that particular car on that particular track. Or, worse yet, instead of the reviewer blathering on we're subjected to some type of soundtrack that completely obliterates what we all really want to hear, …
Continue to the full articleWhat’s Faster On The Track, The 911 GT3 RS or The 911 Turbo S
We all know the GT3 RS is a track car made for occasional use on the street, but how does it compare to the 911 Turbo S, the horsepower king of the 911 line-up. The GT3 RS has 500 hp, it's normally aspirated with rear wheel drive and weights around 1405 kg. Perhaps, most importantly, it has a wider front track than the Turbo S and is fitted with …
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