992 GT3 RS first drive
There’s a warning the 992 GT3 RS is running out of fuel, which pops up on the central screen in the dashboard as we’re lapping the Silverstone GP circuit. We’re approaching Maggots complex at 137mph (220km/h), and Porsche ambassador and test driver Jörg Bergmeister casually starts prodding at the screen to dismiss it, taps the brakes before dispatching the fast direction change and gets right back on the accelerator. I’m dumbfounded – and pounded – as the car changes direction in a manner that until today I’ve never experienced in anything other than a pure racing car.
The additional mental capacity to deal with things beyond what’s core to the driving task in hand separates merely good drivers from the best. Me? I would have kept driving around oblivious, until the car ran out of fuel. That Jörg’s a handy driver was never in doubt, but having just taken me around the same track in the same car that I drove, save for the fact that his is Weissach Pack-equipped and wearing Cup 2 R tyres, opposed to the ‘mere’ RS on Cup 2s I had at my disposal, it’s apparent that the GT3 RS in his capable hands is an absolute weapon. It’s still pretty damned quick in mine, too, which says more about the car than it does me.
That previous evening, when I was given a lift by Jörg from the hotel to PEC
