View Poll Results: 991.2GT3 Track It vs. Street Driving
Track It
51
40.48%
Street Driver
75
59.52%
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991.2GT3; Track It vs. Street Driving
05-03-2017, 02:23 PM
#31
A lot of it had to do with my braking style as well, which was suited to going quick and being smooth but not to going fast.
05-03-2017, 02:34 PM
#32
Drifting
I just traded my 991 TTS for a PTS Targa 4S for my wife and have signed an order for a 2018 GT3. My thinking was driving the GT3 a couple of times a week with DE/ track days three or four times a year was the perfect mix to enjoy this car. What I am reading from journalists in early testing is - no doubt - a fantastic track toy, but comfortable enough for a weekend away or a trip to the office and back. I am so mixed on PDK VS STICK.....in that I love the stick but I have a 993TT whenever I want to slap the gears around..and thinking track day for a GT3 in commuter traffic I might like the simplicity of the PDK - and is that ever a slick piece of technology. Fast forward to selling the GT3 in four years, I have to wonder what car is more desirable to the market with the purists longing for a stick sure but the die hard track guys will want PDK (I think). Not that I am buying to sell - but rather I am so on the fence I could be talked into either. Talk about needing a Porsche therapist.....
)Buy what will "tickle your *****" (Credit for this term goes to another member in another thread)
05-03-2017, 03:50 PM
#33
Race Car
Not buying one unfortunately, GT3 is a solid DD but it's meant to be tracked. My RS is taking the full load of track work and loving it. If you buy a GT3 at least track it one time so you understand what your car can do.
05-03-2017, 03:51 PM
#34
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Exactly- That is why i am getting one and using it for spirited street driving. It is my money and I can do what I want with it. That is how I reward Myself for my hard work and helps me decompress on weekends. Nothing better than being behind a race car enjoying the glorious roads and the rush it delivers
Agree 100% Jimmy with a caveat.
UK is littered with pesky mobile speed cameras and you have to box clever to avoid getting a ticket.
I've found that getting on the road by 0530 hours gives ample time to really drop the hammer.
05-03-2017, 04:20 PM
#36
Rennlist Member
Posted this on another thread but it applies here.
It seems to me, I state the obvious, that to extract the most out the 1.2 GT3, the PDK is the way to go for the track. I like that some have a .1 GT3 RS and will keep that for track duty and have the 1.2 GT3 for, if you will, as an awesome manual car. Alternatively, if one picked up a manual GT4 for the manual fix, a PDK .2 GT3 would be best served in a track environment, but not only.
I wonder how many 1.2 GT3' s will actually spend a lot of time on the track. In my case, track time will be at most, if lucky, half a dozen times for a year for a variety of reasons. So track time is a bonus for me to drive my car in an environment where I can work on my limited track skills and use my urge to move quickly in the proper location and have a blast. I owned a 997.2 GT3 for five years and used it the same way in which I will use the 991.2 GT3. The car will mostly be a "street" car and the manual fits the bill perfectly. Really, if I was a track junkie, interested in fast lap times, to go faster than the next guy as my goal or as simply as fast as possible, the PDK is the way to order the car IMO.
I imagine that we will see plenty of manual cars outrunning the PDK versions on the track because of different skill levels of the driver...
So, mostly street use, I'm sticking to the manual version, can't wait!
It seems to me, I state the obvious, that to extract the most out the 1.2 GT3, the PDK is the way to go for the track. I like that some have a .1 GT3 RS and will keep that for track duty and have the 1.2 GT3 for, if you will, as an awesome manual car. Alternatively, if one picked up a manual GT4 for the manual fix, a PDK .2 GT3 would be best served in a track environment, but not only.
I wonder how many 1.2 GT3' s will actually spend a lot of time on the track. In my case, track time will be at most, if lucky, half a dozen times for a year for a variety of reasons. So track time is a bonus for me to drive my car in an environment where I can work on my limited track skills and use my urge to move quickly in the proper location and have a blast. I owned a 997.2 GT3 for five years and used it the same way in which I will use the 991.2 GT3. The car will mostly be a "street" car and the manual fits the bill perfectly. Really, if I was a track junkie, interested in fast lap times, to go faster than the next guy as my goal or as simply as fast as possible, the PDK is the way to order the car IMO.
I imagine that we will see plenty of manual cars outrunning the PDK versions on the track because of different skill levels of the driver...
So, mostly street use, I'm sticking to the manual version, can't wait!
Last edited by Nacelle; 05-04-2017 at 01:00 AM.
05-03-2017, 04:24 PM
#37
I have tracked all of my GT cars and will continue to track all future GT cars that buy.
05-03-2017, 04:27 PM
#38
Has anyone done the math on their particular track to determine the real difference between the MT and PDK. I have done a lap with a Porsche factory driver and I could not outdrive him with a nitrous turbo (if they exist).
05-03-2017, 05:01 PM
#39
I can actually see AP saying these exact words in the next gt3 video.
05-03-2017, 09:28 PM
#41
Instructor
In an EVO video discussing the 911R, AP states that the "R is the FIRST of a new division of GT focused for PUREST" (paraphrased closely).
Sounds like there are now "two divisions" of GT... a purest and a track focused. The R was the "First" so all these spy shots of wingless GT cars should not be a surprise.
The .2 3 fits nicely in both categories depending on your spec.
Sounds like there are now "two divisions" of GT... a purest and a track focused. The R was the "First" so all these spy shots of wingless GT cars should not be a surprise.
The .2 3 fits nicely in both categories depending on your spec.
05-03-2017, 10:19 PM
#43
05-03-2017, 10:22 PM
#44
Race Director
How many will rave about the car and then sell it 4-8 months later with less than 300 miles on it? Never understood how someone can rave about a car they never drove.
Maybe they like rave about how they got the car for 'free', but they really didn't get anything out of the car either....
Maybe they like rave about how they got the car for 'free', but they really didn't get anything out of the car either....
05-03-2017, 10:27 PM
#45
This is hard to answer accurately given the limitations of the poll because in my case it is "both." I've done club racing in the past and dealt with tow vehicles and trailers and race tires, etc. and just got tired of it all. So in getting my GT4 first, and now trading up to GT3, my goal was to have a car I could drive 4 hours to the track, enjoy on the track, and drive back home. And even DD if I want. So, the reason I chose a GT3 over, say, a GTS is clearly for track work, I may put 12,000 miles a year on it and only 1,000 of those will be on track. So the main "reason" I got it is track but the main "use" will be street. And I wouldn't want it at all if it wasn't well suited for both.