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What is it about the combination of certain letters with a series of numbers on the back of performance cars that gets pulses of enthusiasts racing? While certainly, these usually marketing-department-derived signatures don’t always hit the mark in terms of this mandate, one brand with a proud history of success in this naming game is, Porsche - and notably when it comes to its Cup cars.

In its modern form, we associate the Cup nameplate with the brand’s 911 GT3 Cup racing programme yet, in the late Eighties, it was used more broadly than this.

While for many years the

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