When you have been holding out for a brand new technically-street-legal supercar that might be barely sooner round most race tracks than a Porsche 911 GT3 RS, however considerably costlier, stiffer, and seemingly worse in virtually each strategy to drive on the road, Manthey Racing has the automobile for you. The brand new Manthey Package GT3 RS receives a singular aero equipment for extra downforce, racetrack-optimized suspension, extra aggressive brakes and the rear window is swapped out for a shark fin. None of that is achieved within the identify of subtlety. This can be a blunt-edged observe weapon that the majority consumers received’t ever have sufficient ability to function correctly.
When you’re in search of a track-only machine that can enhance your expertise, you’re undoubtedly higher off spending much less cash to go sooner by calling Porsche Motorsport and getting your self a race-ready GT3 Cup. If, for some cause, you completely have to show your mettle by monitoring a street-legal Porsche, then this sort of splits the distinction between the GT3 RS and the track-only Cup. You’ll additionally should pay round $125,000 above and past the usual GT3 RS base value of $241,300.
That bonkers value doesn’t embody any improve in energy, both, because it’s purely aero, suspension and brakes. The inventory 518 horsepower flat-six stays unchanged, which coupled with a rise in downforce and aerodynamic drag means you’ll most likely lose some high pace. The usual GT3 RS set a Vmax of 183 miles per hour, so you possibly can wager it’ll be rather less than that. It’ll most likely be faster by way of each nook on the observe, although. Manthey says the brand new automobile produces 2,200 kilos of downforce at 177 miles per hour, which I’d guess is its new high pace. All the aero flicks, greater wings, and carbon “aerodisc” wheel inserts account for simply 300 kilos of downforce at these speeds. Is it actually price it?
Manthey and Porsche haven’t but launched a Nürburgring lap time for the Manthey-kitted automobile, however you possibly can wager that the brand new automobile shall be a bit faster across the Inexperienced Hell. The present non-Manthey GT3 RS ran a 6:44.848 lap time again in 2022, which is a great distance off the 6:29.090 that Mercedes-AMG set with its One hypercar earlier this yr. Porsche must actually pull out some magic to get anyplace close to that automobile’s time with half the horsepower.
“Over a interval of two years, we labored along with Porsche engineers on the brand new Manthey Package for the 911 GT3 RS and examined it over a number of thousand kilometers on European racetracks and on the Nürburgring Nordschleife,” says Nicolas Raeder, Managing Director of Manthey Racing GmbH. “Our knowledge guarantees a major enchancment in lap occasions in comparison with the usual 911 GT3 RS. To date, climate circumstances have prevented us from attaining an official lap time on the Nordschleife. We wish to make up for this on the subsequent potential alternative.”
“With the Manthey Package, the 911 GT3 RS has improved considerably on the racetrack, particularly on medium-speed corners,” says Porsche Model Ambassador Jörg Bergmeister. “The automobile dives, pitches and rolls even much less, providing a way more steady aerodynamic platform. The excessive contact stress subsequently stays very fixed underneath all driving circumstances.”
In the end it is a means for folks with an excessive amount of cash to spend greater than their neighbor to purchase a flashy high-tech observe machine for Saturday morning vehicles and coffees. Watch out to not put too many miles on it otherwise you would possibly harm the automobile’s long-term worth. It’s most likely finest that you simply simply park this automobile in your storage and by no means drive it. Although, if I have been shopping for a automobile that was going to simply sit in my storage, I’d not less than need one that appears good.
