Motor Sport Magazine

Downforce majeure

IT WILL NOT HAVE ESCAPED YOUR attention that fast car manufacturers are engaged in a seemingly endless, futile and entirely counterproductive power struggle. Porsche is as guilty as anyone, but not its Motorsport department, responsible for its GT series cars. The engineers who work there beg to differ.

Which is why this new 911 GT3 has a grand total of 10bhp more than the last, not enough to shave so much as a tenth off its 0-60mph time. Then again, if what you want is a normally aspirated engine producing around 500bhp from a 4-litre capacity, that’s the price you

You’re reading a preview, subscribe to read more.

More from Motor Sport Magazine

Motor Sport Magazine3 min read
Sounds Of The ’70s
You can tell from the pale orange endpapers that this is going to be presented with some style, and it is. Palawan style, with groovy covers and a smart box case. Essentially a photo collection, it’s drawn from the archive left by Franco Lini, report
Motor Sport Magazine1 min read
Cast Your Vote Now For Motor Sport’s Race Car Of The Century
The voting poll is open! Now it’s time for you, the readers of Motor Sport, to decide on your choice of Race Car of the Century, as the centrepiece of our 100th anniversary celebrations this summer. As regular readers will have noticed in recent issu
Motor Sport Magazine3 min read
Doug Nye
Set against the background of a wildly unstable world any competitive endeavour that can be fought out for fun, achievement and promotion – rather than for basic survival – can expect to thrive. But the ever-present enemy of such success, regardless

Related Books & Audiobooks