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Meet the new boss

WE NEED TO TALK ABOUT A LAP TIME. BUT before we get heavy with the numbers, I think it’s worth taking a moment to appreciate the aesthetics, because this new GT3 feels like a much bigger transformation than with previous generations. Devoid of its disguises, it looks startlingly more trim and taut than a standard 992. It’s as though, in order to match the kerb weight of its forebear, it didn’t just need a strict diet but full-on surgery. The way the standard car’s bulbous bottom has been sliced into. The way the lower front looks as though it has been pulled open and a jaw removed. The deeply sunken nostrils… it’s almost brutal.

It has to be the most aggressive GT3 to date. The most RS non-RS. Just look at the rear wing. Even regardless of the swan-neck design, the pierced black supports are so much more

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