Porsche 911 GT2 RS Fares Well in World’s Greatest Drag Race
Porsche didn’t built the 911 GT2 RS to be a drag car. But that doesn’t mean it isn’t incredibly quick in a straight line.
Porsche never intended for the 911 GT2 RS to be a drag racer. A car that excels only in straight-line acceleration. Rather, this is a high-powered track machine built specifically to destroy the competition around a proper circuit. But when you throw a 700+ horsepower twin-turbo flat-six into a lightweight car and back it up with a transmission that shifts as quick as lightning strikes, it’s going to be pretty quick, too.
And, well, it is. It takes a mere 2.6-seconds to reach 60 mph, and only 10.3 clicks to cover a quarter-mile. Those are very respectable numbers for a drag racer. Even more impressive from a car that’s bone stock from the manufacturer. So it’s no wonder Motor Trend included the new 911 GT2 RS in its annual “World’s Greatest Drag Race,” a competition that pits the fastest cars in the world against each other to find out which can go from point A to point B in the least amount of time.
This year’s lineup is obviously impressive. But also quite diverse. We’ve got everything from the 911 GT2 RS and a McLaren 720S to a Honda Civic Type R and a Kia Stinger. And things get even more interesting once the race starts. The Porsche leaps out to an early lead, ahead of the McLaren, a Lambo, and the Corvette ZR1. And it stays there for a good bit before both orange supercars muscle past it.
“The Lambo just gets the jump off the line, but by 60 miles an hour, the McLaren is ahead – 2.55 seconds versus 2.58” our host notes. “The Porsche is still in the mix, too. Just a single hundredth behind the Perf. At 100 miles per hour, it sneaks ahead. The Porsche needs just 5.5-seconds to reach the time – three-tenths ahead of the Lambo.” The McLaren is a mere two-tenths quicker to 100 at 5.3-seconds.
Thus, the crew decided to cut the field down to six cars, extend it to a half-mile, and stick pro driver Randy Pobst in the 911 GT2 RS. Unfortunately, that one’s behind a pay wall. So we’ll just have to wait and see if the Porsche fares better this time around!
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