Porsche Motorsport has unveiled the instant generation of 911 GT3 RS to live based on the extant 991 platform.
The motorcar is probable to live the lastly 991-based model to live launched earlier a novel 911, codenamed 992, arrives on the footing phase inwards September.
Available to gild at ane time at a toll of £141,346, amongst get-go Britain deliveries inwards June, the novel 911 GT3 RS receives an additional 20bhp from a lightly modified version of Porsche’s race-bred 4.0-litre six-cylinder engine, increasing its ability to 513bhp at 8250rpm.
Riding inwards the novel 911 GT3 RS amongst Walter Rohrl
This is the highest ability figure nonetheless for a naturally aspirated 911 together with serves to distance the novel 911 GT3 RS from the criterion 911 GT3, which was equipped amongst the same 493bhp engine every bit the first-generation 911 GT3 RS when it was updated lastly year.
The internals of the novel engine stay unchanged, the additional ability coming instead from novel intake together with exhaust systems, coupled amongst changes to Porsche’s DME (Digital Motor Electronics) engine management.
Porsche motorsport guru Andreas Preuninger confirmed to Autocar that the engine genuinely develops to a greater extent than ability than is claimed together with could cause got been homologated at 523bhp, precisely they decided to err on the side of caution. In racing trim, if allowed to run without air restrictors, the engine could brand to a greater extent than than 600bhp.
Like the previous 911 GT3 RS, the engine is mated to a seven-speed PDK double-clutch transmission together with at that topographic point is no pick of a manual gearbox. The increment inwards ability is claimed to shave 0.1sec from the outgoing 911 GT3 RS’s 0-62mph time, lowering it to 3.2sec, piece adding 1mph to its laissez passer on speed at 194mph.
Modifications to the car’s chassis were informed yesteryear the noesis gleaned from the GT2 RS, launched lastly year. The novel GT3 RS has the same boundary rates front end together with raise every bit its turbocharged stablemate. At the front, those boundary rates amount to double that seen on either the electrical flow 911 GT3 or previous GT3 RS, together with the raise boundary charge per unit of measurement has increased yesteryear 40%. Like the 911 GT2 RS, rose joints are used throughout the front end together with raise recess together with the rear-wheel steering arrangement has been extensively reprogrammed.
All GT3 RSs are fitted amongst carbonfibre front end wings together with bonnet (with novel NACA ducts to help brake cooling) together with a magnesium roof. Cars amongst the optional Weissach Pack come upward amongst carbonfibre roofs together with the pick of magnesium wheels. Buyers who specify the total pack volition salve 29kg.
Visually, the novel Porsche route racer is differentiated from its predecessor yesteryear a serial of subtle aerodynamic together with styling upgrades. They include novel LED indicator lamps laid inside a re-profiled front end bumper. The bumper besides features novel vertical air catamenia guides inside the outer ducts to to a greater extent than efficiently channel air to the front-mounted radiators together with brakes. At the rear, at that topographic point are to a greater extent than heavily structured raise lights, a novel bumper amongst larger air extraction ducts together with modified supports for the raise wing, which itself features newly shaped goal plates.
The interior has carbonfibre-backed racing seats, lightweight door panels amongst storage nets together with nylon opening loops. Other weight-slashing measures include a reduction inwards audio absorption fabric together with a lightweight engine lid.
These modifications to the 911 GT3 RS should add together upward to an gauge 10sec improvement inwards Nürburgring lap time.
The argue the novel GT3 RS is beingness rolled out later the GT2 RS rather than earlier it (which would appear to a greater extent than logical together with follow the template laid yesteryear the previous GT2 RS inwards 2010) is that Porsche was non prepared to aspect until this boundary to wrest the Nürburgring production motorcar lap tape dorsum from in-house contender Lamborghini, together with then launched its close extreme model first.
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Source : autocar