The £820k Porsche 911 GT3 R rennsport is the ultimate track toy flex, and limited to just 77 cars. GT3 RS who?
EVERYONE IS TALKING ABOUT
In technical parlance, the new Porsche 911 GT3 R rennsport improves on a number of its donor car’s key metrics, including aerodynamics and the power emitted from its 4.2-litre flat-six combustion engine. In layman’s parlance, this thing is off the scale. Porsche describes the new car as “probably the hottest track tool Porsche has ever made available as a collectors’ item”.
Of course it’s a collector’s item. An £820k plaything for 77 of Porsche’s very luckiest – and track savvy – customers. What they get for their money isn’t just raw numbers, though we’ll come to those in a tick, but also history.
The rennsport’s apparently a ‘logical’ successor to the GT2 RS-based 935 from a few years back, and uses the already potent 911 GT3 R customer racecar as a base. Aside from the bonnet and the roof, every other body panel on the limited edition has been changed over a GT3 R.
There’s a new nose. Tweaked air intakes and ducts. A side cowl. Reworked wheelarches. Digital wing mirrors. And a huge rear wing, which is where the ‘history’ bit comes in – it apparently harks back to the 935/77 Brumos Porsche that raced at the Daytona 24-hour race in 1978. There are whispers of the Porsche 962 Le Mans racer around the back, too.
A larger rear apron sans grille covers and panelling (to save weight) sits underneath an LED light bar. The flared arches house 18in BBS ‘racing’ wheels, which not only look quite fantastic, but meet proper competition standards.
Speaking of which, the engine’s been derestricted because this car isn’t in competition. The 4.2-litre boxer punches out 612bhp – up from the GT3 R’s 557bhp – sent rearwards via a six-speed ‘constant mesh’ gearbox carried over from the GT3 R but tweaked, resulting in sixth gear giving the car a little more flat-out speed. There’s an unsilenced racing
