Manifold

... and downhill the whole way.

Not gonna happen, unless JB is way off the pace, in which case he shouldn't have been the driver and they shouldn't have announced the time.

Seriously doubt this car is 16 secs faster than the 'regular' GT3 (which has some significant aero).

Manifold

We have the DSC in our GT4 (wife's car), but haven't tried messing with the settings. She says it feels better on the track - handles bumps better, more stable in braking. I haven't tried it on the track yet, but feels about the same on the road to me.

GrantG

Well, we don't really know what the GT3 would have done with Kevin E and repeated efforts and dialing it in. They went sub-7 almost immediately and stopped. Pretty sure there is something left on the table, but the goal was clearly just a time than began with a "6" (and the official time is less than a 10th of a second under 7 minutes).

rosenbergendo

Car is just simply underpowered. Its that simple.

Bridster

A guy mentions that the time is for a full lap and yet for some reason all the comments happily proceed assuming the time is for a 20.6km lap. Like... how does that even happen when the difference between full and SA laps has been discussed like 100 times in this thread alone? People already made the mistake of not taking into account which kind of lap was being discussed 100 times, were corrected 100 times, and yet the same thing effortlessly happens again!

Anyway, if the time really is for a full lap, then that's 10s faster than the 992 GT3, about 2s faster than the GT2RS, and only about 1s slower than the AMG GT BS. Which would be a pretty good time and well within expectations.

GrantG

20.8KM times

GrantG

Which may explain the lack of a press release so far. 1.28 second is certainly within reach (maybe or maybe not before the cold weather comes this year).

neanicu

All this discussion is very interesting but I'm looking forward to the " how much over " thread plus the " how to spec the 992 GT3 RS for maximum profit on the secondary market " thread. Those are going to be interesting for the majority of us early risers,closed mall parking lot gatherers and Starbucks/Dunkin Donuts drinkers...

mclarenmaniac

All Instagram posts related to this lap time have been removed..so probably they will try again

Manifold

Yes, very doable. It should be able to beat the AMG.

6:47.25 for the GT2 RS would be harder to beat, but I think doable under ideal conditions.

Doesn't really matter though, 6:49.3 is already fast enough to show that the aero was worth it.

Guest89

This is all publicly blessed info: https://omologato.substack.com/p/por...nning-pipeline

signes

Pretty interesting thanks. Lots of ways to interpret his comments about what the next engine might be. Larger displacement turbo? But also says will keep the 4l "viable" for the EU7 regs. Not sure how to square those.

Guest89

I can’t say more than what’s written; they are PR-trained pros.

Drifting

agree.

dark knight

car is underpowered? read between the lines, "we cannot get more power out and meet emissions standards for the 4.2" , translate this from Andynese into englisch., this actually means, we are going with hybrid assist next time, we aren't gonna spend more Geld for the development of gas motor like you want, now we reduce displacement fanboy. We will be telling you "the GT customers asked for more power and this is the only way we could do it to satisfy them" They will give it some Porsche acronym like PPB =Porsche Power Boost, "Ja, it will automatically kick in or you can press button on wheel marked "overtake" or "boost" or "turbo" (I know not turbo but either is Taycan turbo) this will shut up all the gas motor people and they will blame us for hybrid/KERS rather than blame greens, EPA, US political policy destruction of performance cars, personally I wonder if the the 991 is the GT3RS sweet spot