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Afternoon all - been a while since I've been here. Got the new 991 C2 in April and been spending time behind the wheel rather than online. Though last weekend was so mega-cool I have to ensure others new to P-cars are aware of this level of insanity!

One point to make here - if you have a 991 - go to a Drivers Education Track Day!

First - it's now clear to me that the majority of us have little idea what this car is capable of. I thought I knew before I came, but I didn't. I thought I actually learned it after my first on-track session, but I was nowhere close. I suspected I finally got it after lapping with my instructor in his track-prepped 991, again no. Perhaps after I sat & watched a few cup cars run the Putnam Park (Indiana) course...no, no, no.

Everyone needs at some point to go for a ride with a pro. Let me pause while I shake off the jitters I still get from just 3 hot laps.

In a brand new, straight from the dealer demo, bone-stock C4S - we did things that I don't even have words to describe. Look - we all know that our cars will move pretty well from a line, but this guy (who BTW might as well have been driving with 1 hand for all the perceived effort he was putting out) gave me a demonstration of something that still makes little sense even 3-4 days later. It was no longer a car, rather some cartoonish video game that I was strapped into. We'd occasionally lift, perhaps if briefly only to resettle the car, before a little steering input as prep for the next 4 wheel drift. The car - screaming near redline in sport plus pretty much the whole time - didn't as much launch out of each corner as I'd say it frantically clawed its way toward the next one! We passed turbos, ran down GT3's, and literally howled past countless also-rans that littered the 1.9 mile course.

3 vertigo-induced laps made me realize the following....We've all bought race cars, we just simply choose to use them also as daily drivers.

Look gang, we all feel about our 911's the same way. But please believe me when I say that if you haven't been to a DE event - you have little idea of what the machine in your garage is capable of doing.

Caged animal.

chuckbdc

But did you have a good time?

duxsi

Well said "Caged animal".

It always amuses me how the 0-60 numbers are used to market these sports cars, in spite of them being a small part of the overall equation.

Enjoy and stay safe.

JamesKen

While I like to push the go peddle as much as anyone it took me one mountain road to figure out these cars are built for cornering.

My first DE is this weekend and I am really looking forward to it.

ColoradoCayenne

JamesKen, where is your DE this weekend?

JamesKen

High Plains Raceway thru the PCA.

LonnieR

If anyone has a chance to do a DE weekend at Sebring...do it!. The track is over 3 miles long and has 17 turns. It's really great!

GrantG

Great track and cheap open days almost every Friday (much more fun and seat time than PCA days).

www.highplainsraceway.com

2013991black7sp

I was at Putnam this past weekend in a black 991 number 754. It was awesome! Only bad thing is my tires only have 2000 miles and are shot!

fester

Thanks for sharing your experience! This only proves how well built and capable C4S is and yes, people like me use it as a daily driver completely oblivious of its capabilities!

Well written post! Thanks!

Anyone know when's next DE event in California Bay Area /vicinity???