Six minutes and 49.328 seconds. That’s the lap time we’ve all been waiting to learn. Director GT cars, Andreas Preuninger had promised the Porsche 992 GT3 RS would produce a sensational time around the Nürburgring and that it would be revealed at the press launch at Silverstone. The weather in Germany had different ideas, though, and so we departed Silverstone without that time to drop into the first drive. The stopwatch has had its moment now, or at least it’s been dry enough for the GT3 RS to set a benchmark.
The RS’s driver on the day, Jörg Bergmeister, the man who’s probably most familiar with the car given his role in developing it, admits that the gusty wind meant on occasion the car wasn’t able to produce its best downforce. Andreas adds that along with a strong headwind on the long drive up the
