Watch In Awe As A Modified Porsche 911 GT3 RS Clocks A 7min 9sec 'Ring Lap
Ready for a hefty dose of flat-six noise and utter driving commitment? Make sure you’re sitting comfortably, and hit the play button ahead. Do so, and you’ll see Sport Auto’s Christian Gebhardt thrash out a 7min 09.59sec Nurburgring lap, aboard a Manthey Racing Porsche 911 ‘GT3 RS MR’. As you’d expect, it’s quite a sight to behold.
The Manthey Racing GT3 RS still sports the standard 4.0-litre, 493bhp flat-six, but it’s been blessed with GT3 R-derived shock absorbers and lighter magnesium wheels, among other things.
As a result, it’s able to put in a time just ahead of a Mercedes-AMG GT R (clocked on another Christian Gebhardt/Sport Auto effort, as it happens), and just behind that Nissan GT-R Nismo lap from 2013.
Growing up on a diet of World Rally Championship highlights and lengthy Gran Turismo 2 sessions, a life in cars was as good as inevitable for Matt.
Comments
Next week:
“Watch in disbelief as 1.2 Fiat 500 clocks in a 5min 43sec lap round the Nurburgring”
holy crap that sounds amazing
Jesus Christ what did Magnus Walker take this time to make that?
A day off from crashing…
Porsche should think about taking this modified GT3 RS and make it a limited production model. And it shall be called the GT3RSRS
Where is yesterday’s open message?
Those cables flying all over the dashboard are so annyoing xD Insane hotlap, and the sounds <3
Always enjoy reading how modified Porsche racing cars that cost hundreds of thousands of dollars pull a 7 minute 10 second run and a bone stock Corvette Z06 pulled a 7:13 and lcould have gone 4-5 seconds faster. I love the porsches and other exotics but no one ever gives credit to the amazing American cars that are embarrassing all the expensive European machinery.
The zo6 ran 7:13 :O