Porsche 911 GT2 RS (991) specs

Underhanded congratulations.

AMG calling it as they see it and they're spot on...

GT2 MR was never competing with them for the crown of fastest production car. It is a modified car record and Mercedes are inserting themselves in this conversation for no reason, other than to generate some little PR and remind everyone once again how super duper fast their AMG GT is.

Porsche have been rather clever because they've stated that this is the "fastest road-legal sports car on the Ring" and avoided using the term "production car" so i have no problem with AMG's PR spin reminding peeps that they still hold the "production car" record because there are already news articles stating the MR is a production car which is bullshit :)

I ask why never before has someone who modifies cars made a record on the ring with a company other than Porsche (the last one was Gembala 996)?

by the way, Manthey is for Porsche the same as AMG for Mercedes in the early days of cooperation

It is
But GT2 RS had 3 record attempts
It would be nice if others had 3 attempts too

I agree with you, but who prevents others from trying more times. After all, Porsche is the King and it has to work harder than others to keep that status.

Funny when you think of it. Porsche is like that one tryharding Gran Turismo fan who must try going around a track over and over again because they couldn't manage a decent time in the first run (like most other people) to beat a record. Whether his setup or methods were legitimate or not, only the record matters to them at the end of the day and no matter what fundings they took from the Nürburgring itself ;)

"I'm not cheating, I just have a really good gamer chair and energy drink injection." levels of BS excuses. Place a few NOS bottles at the back of your seat for extra power (decoration) when your record gets taken again.

they push the boundaries, even by force, but they are always a challenge for others, no one likes to be second if they fight for victory.

That's why Porsche is at the top most of the time, it didn't lie, it just tried harder.

so they make cars with great effort and effort because tradition dictates so

LOL push boundaries? Yes, if you consider twisting reality then you're right about it. It's quite pathetic how they have to give out press cars which are undoubtedly different from the stock models just to assert a certain dominance in history and pay car magazines to let the brand win over and over again in tests, no matter how small the difference is.

Sport auto is a really good example for how manipulated the tests are:

Instead of offering all three cars with manual, the German rivals got a PDK and were driven more competent than the Lotus. Even on this site there's proof that the potential of Lotus far exceeds what we know from this car magazine.

Here, another good example. They had to give the Audi better tires so it could beat the Corvette by an insanely small margin. What they did to the Carrera so it was 1 second faster, we will never know. It's a good old VW family secret.
Not to mention in an unbiased (Canadian) test by Throttle House, the Corvette beat the opposing Carrera S by almost a second. Despite being heavier and being N/A.
Don't say shit like "it's tradition that they should win!!" when it absolutely defies reality. Hell, I'm already glad the new BMW M4 Competition got a similar track time at Sport auto, knowing how much the Zuffenhauseners are funding their existence.

and I doubt the sincerity of some German magazines but there are so many, very many examples where non-German magazines drive faster Porsches than rivals in the same category so the examples are ....

one important thing: porsches if i used such large engine volumes as corvettes they would not be in the same dimension as corvettes, they would be much, much faster.

If you think that a large volume OHV V8 would increase performance, then why do you think Porsche has never used this opportunity?

Do I have to explain everything to you brothers? Their idea is to make the most of the possibilities of current potentials, they want to rule forever, as they will rule and that is why they do not cheat in the short term. Porsche is a religion;)

'they want to rule forever, as they will rule and that is why they do not cheat in the short term'

that statement only comes out of an Arschgesicht that's been stuck in a basement and has never seen the outside world, the word forever belongs in fairytale stories and peppa pig shows :)

the only religion they know is lying, cheating, emission/extortion scandals, overcharging for rebadged junky vw/audi parts...in other words, corrupt to the core :)

i don't have to go back in time and open an old disgraceful book and expose every single detail, of how many owners were pissed for being used as guinea pigs on pccb brakes failing at the track, centre locking wheel nuts, engine failures, pdk failure etc..etc... the bullet proof part is valid the first 3-years like any other sportscar, but once the warranty is expired, the milking process at the service center begins with vw oem parts, one way or another they have to rectify their sins of manipulation and false tunes to their black shooting chimney powered cars to look good in public with their new slogan das homosexuelle :)

when you spend over 300k on a vw-911 and everyone tells you to replace your fake carbon ceramic brakes with steels before heading to the track and to avoid further damages and overheating issues lololololol

https://rennlist.com/forums/991-gt3-gt3rs-gt2rs-and-911r/1246016-my-gt2rs-pccb-brakes-issue.html

did you know that two can play that game of cheating ? and it took one jdm car company to shit on their lap times and pride that drove them crazy till this day, proof is when they launch their new and stupid looking suvs, sedans and send them to the ring and announce a new bs record with a stripped out interior and a bald driver to keep weight down as much as possible lol