In the event you had been holding out for a brand new technically-street-legal supercar that will be barely quicker round most race tracks than a Porsche 911 GT3 RS, however considerably dearer, stiffer, and seemingly worse in nearly each strategy to drive on the road, Manthey Racing has the automotive for you. The brand new Manthey Package GT3 RS receives a singular aero package 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 monitor weapon that the majority patrons gained’t ever have sufficient talent to function correctly.
In the event you’re on the lookout for a track-only machine that may enhance your expertise, you’re positively higher off spending much less cash to go quicker by calling Porsche Motorsport and getting your self a race-ready GT3 Cup. If, for some purpose, you completely have to show your mettle by monitoring a street-legal Porsche, then this type of splits the distinction between the GT3 RS and the track-only Cup. You’ll additionally must pay round $125,000 above and past the usual GT3 RS base worth of $241,300.
That bonkers worth 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 prime pace. The usual GT3 RS set a Vmax of 183 miles per hour, so you may wager it’ll be rather less than that. It’ll most likely be faster by each nook on the monitor, although. Manthey says the brand new automotive produces 2,200 kilos of downforce at 177 miles per hour, which I might guess is its new prime 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 automotive, however you may wager that the brand new automotive can 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 12 months. Porsche must actually pull out some magic to get wherever close to that automotive’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 information guarantees a big enchancment in lap instances 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 need to make up for this on the subsequent attainable 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 automotive dives, pitches and rolls even much less, providing a way more secure aerodynamic platform. The excessive contact stress due to this fact stays very fixed below all driving circumstances.”
Finally this can be a method for individuals with an excessive amount of cash to spend greater than their neighbor to purchase a flashy high-tech monitor machine for Saturday morning automobiles and coffees. Watch out to not put too many miles on it otherwise you may damage the automotive’s long-term worth. It’s most likely finest that you simply simply park this automotive in your storage and by no means drive it. Although, if I had been shopping for a automotive that was going to simply sit in my storage, I’d at the least need one that appears good.
