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Hum, looks like Porsche may have offer an opportunity to spend a day running a GT3 and/or a GT3RS on nothing but snow and ice at the Porsche Driving Experience IceForce program in January. The other choice would be the "normal" AWD 991 Turbos. I'm tempted.
Has anyone else tried, or have any feed back on running their GT3 on snow & ice? I did a bit of this in a specially setup Cayman GTS last January on a "special" four square (all tires the same size) studded tire setup provided by PDE. I assume the GT3 would get something similar by way of studded tires too.
The AWD platform would be more of a known commodity, but the rear wheel drive only GT3 version sounds like a lot of potential fun. mlp
I've always wanted to do it. With the right tires and environment (as would be the case here), it would be a blast. More fun with a manual but I would expect to be impressed with what they can do with proper rubber.
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Hardly useless, just requires more smooth and slow throttle application. AWD just lets you be lazy and allow the car to sort it out for you. I drive all my cars during winter and prefer being in a RWD car as it is more engaging.
Go for it, a lot of fun driving on ice. Doesn't matter if you have 300hp or 500hp. Hard to get power into the ground.
We used to drive with rallye tires on ice, 800 studs in each tire. Instead of a normal winter tire with les than 100. Felt very similar to gravel.
Hum, looks like Porsche may have offer an opportunity to spend a day running a GT3 and/or a GT3RS on nothing but snow and ice at the Porsche Driving Experience IceForce program in January. The other choice would be the "normal" AWD 991 Turbos. I'm tempted.
Has anyone else tried, or have any feed back on running their GT3 on snow & ice? I did a bit of this in a specially setup Cayman GTS last January on a "special" four square (all tires the same size) studded tire setup provided by PDE. I assume the GT3 would get something similar by way of studded tires too.
The AWD platform would be more of a known commodity, but the rear wheel drive only GT3 version sounds like a lot of potential fun. mlp
Yeah, not recommended on the cup 2's, might as well be driving on ice. Hope all is well M, hope to see you at the upcoming HPR oct event
. . . . .., hope to see you at the upcoming HPR oct event
I haven't registered for it, . . . . OnSite hasn't been able to located another set of tires, and I may have another obligation over at least part of that weekend. Looking forward to Finland - I figuratively bit the PDE bullet and opted for the additional "private" training day with the GT3/GT3RS. I'll be interesting to see which of the two cars shows up; and more importantly just how aggressively studded the tires provided with the car will be.
09-25-2015, 04:49 PM
Running a 991 GT3 &/or GT3RS on Snow and Ice
Hope all is well M, hope to see you at the upcoming HPR oct event
