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Forget what Bryan Adams says: it wasn’t the summer of ‘69 that we should all remember, but the summer of ‘99, the year Porsche first introduced the 911 GT3. The true definition of a race car for the road, the GT3 cemented its place not only in 911 history, but in performance car history, when two-time World Rally Championship victor and factory test driver, Walter Röhrl, piloted the powerful Porsche to a Nürburgring lap time of under eight minutes. It was the first time a road-legal production car achieved the feat.
Fast-forward to the beginning of 2021, and the new 911 GT3 (the fourth generation to wear the illustrious badge) broke the seven-minute barrier in the hands of Porsche development driver, Lars Kern. No records were to be broken on the day we arrived at a supremely wet Anglesey Circuit to drive the ballistic 992, though. It wasn’t just raining, it was bucketing down, with streams of water running across the track, each ready to catch out car’s Michelin Pilot Sport Cup 2 tyres. Clearly, this wasn’t going to be a day to explore the true limits of
