Should you had been holding out for a brand new technically-street-legal supercar that might be barely sooner round most race tracks than a Porsche 911 GT3 RS, however considerably costlier, stiffer, and seemingly worse in virtually each solution to drive on the road, Manthey Racing has the automobile for you. The brand new Manthey Package GT3 RS receives a singular aero package for extra downforce, racetrack-optimized suspension, extra aggressive brakes and the rear window is swapped out for a shark fin. None of that is carried out within the title of subtlety. It is a blunt-edged monitor weapon that the majority patrons received’t ever have sufficient ability to function correctly.
Should you’re on the lookout for a track-only machine that may enhance your abilities, you’re positively higher off spending much less cash to go sooner by calling Porsche Motorsport and getting your self a race-ready GT3 Cup. If, for some motive, you completely must show your mettle by monitoring a street-legal Porsche, then this sort of splits the distinction between the GT3 RS and the track-only Cup. You’ll additionally need to pay round $125,000 above and past the usual GT3 RS base value of $241,300.
That bonkers value doesn’t embody any enhance in energy, both, because it’s purely aero, suspension and brakes. The inventory 518 horsepower flat-six stays unchanged, which coupled with a rise in downforce and aerodynamic drag means you’ll in all probability lose some prime velocity. The usual GT3 RS set a Vmax of 183 miles per hour, so you may wager it’ll be rather less than that. It’ll in all probability be faster by means of each nook on the monitor, although. Manthey says the brand new automobile produces 2,200 kilos of downforce at 177 miles per hour, which I might guess is its new prime velocity. The entire aero flicks, larger wings, and carbon “aerodisc” wheel inserts account for simply 300 kilos of downforce at these speeds. Is it actually price it?
Manthey and Porsche haven’t but launched a Nürburgring lap time for the Manthey-kitted automobile, however you may wager that the brand new automobile will likely be a bit faster across the Inexperienced Hell. The present non-Manthey GT3 RS ran a 6:44.848 lap time again in 2022, which is a good distance off the 6:29.090 that Mercedes-AMG set with its One hypercar earlier this yr. Porsche should actually pull out some magic to get wherever close to that automobile’s time with half the horsepower.
“Over a interval of two years, we labored along with Porsche engineers on the brand new Manthey Package for the 911 GT3 RS and examined it over a number of thousand kilometers on European racetracks and on the Nürburgring Nordschleife,” says Nicolas Raeder, Managing Director of Manthey Racing GmbH. “Our information guarantees a big enchancment in lap occasions in comparison with the usual 911 GT3 RS. To date, climate situations have prevented us from reaching an official lap time on the Nordschleife. We wish to make up for this on the subsequent potential alternative.”
“With the Manthey Package, the 911 GT3 RS has improved considerably on the racetrack, particularly on medium-speed corners,” says Porsche Model Ambassador Jörg Bergmeister. “The automobile dives, pitches and rolls even much less, providing a way more steady aerodynamic platform. The excessive contact stress subsequently stays very fixed beneath all driving situations.”
In the end it is a means for individuals with an excessive amount of cash to spend greater than their neighbor to purchase a flashy high-tech monitor machine for Saturday morning automobiles and coffees. Watch out to not put too many miles on it otherwise you would possibly damage the automobile’s long-term worth. It’s in all probability greatest that you simply simply park this automobile in your storage and by no means drive it. Although, if I had been shopping for a automobile that was going to only sit in my storage, I’d at the very least need one that appears good.
