Is the new 992 GT3 RS the greatest Porsche 911 ever? Time to find out...
Oh my, what words to use? Not decorous, that’s for sure. Aggressive; striking; bloody naughty? I don’t think even those do it justice. We’ve seen the pictures and we know most of the details already, but there’s nothing like seeing the new 992 GT3 RS in the flesh. It’s got number plates, sure, but how? How can a car that looks this ‘out there’ be fit for the public road? And this isn’t part of the fake vent and phoney flic brigade. It’s all real. All of it.
Anyway, they had to make it work and they did. By using a motorsport-grade rad and angling it at 43 degrees for maximum airflow. And with the cooling issues solved, it freed up the ducts at the sides of car’s nose for something else: moveable aerodynamic flaps. These flip up and pass the air over a feature taken from the 918 Spyder – although the original concept started out in F1 during the ‘90s. It’s aero-efficient, teardrop-shaped, front double wishbones.
And those flics on the roof aren’t downforce inducing, either. They steer the hot air that’s blasting out of the central radiator in the nose to the sides of the car, leaving just cold, dense, oxygen-rich air feeding the central engine intake that sits just below the rear screen. This is important. If the induction air temperature is, say, 40 degrees rather than 20, you lose around 18hp.
It’s a lot to get your head around, and perhaps why I was mildly perturbed about driving it. You see, we were at Silverstone for the GT3 RS’s launch. Not on the National Circuit; the full Grand Prix layout. The cathedral of speed. All 3.66 miles of high-speed curves, like Copse and Becketts. Silverstone was chosen to show off the GT3 RS’s aero performance, which no doubt it would’ve done in the dry. But this is Silverstone in late September. So of course it was wet and relatively cold.
Yes, it was a brief bout of hubris. We arrived back in the pits, and, as I pulled up three feet from that lead car’s bumper, I noticed there were a couple of letters missing: the R and S. The badge said simply GT3. It was at that point that I realised how special the RS is. It’s not just a little bit quicker than a GT3 driven by someone senior, it’s a lot quicker. It really is.
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