Porsche 964 RS and the Carrera Cup

[iain_cam]

Browsing through the latest GT Purely Porsche, specifically the 964 RS special section, I read a bit which got me thinking :

''The Carrera RS was produced to allow Porsche to homologate the newly designed Cup car for the Carrera Cup race series.''

While I don't debate the verity of this statement, my train of thought followed this path - the Carrera Cup was, in my mind, thought-up by Porsche. And therefore Porsche made the rules. And homologation numbers are a rule. So why did Porsche go to all the effort of producing a whole new road-model for homologation purposes when they could've left homologation requirements out of the rulebook? Didn't they make a whole load more work for themselves? Couldn't Porsche have just made the Cup cars and not bother with the RS?

Or (shock horror) didn't Porsche make the rules and I've just gibbered a lot of rubbish? Does this even make sense?

Cheers!

[phelix]

From Paul Frere's "Porsche 911 story"...

The 3.6 lire Carrera RS, which was marketed only in 1992, was virtually a road-legal version of the Carrera 'Cup' model. It was obviously marketed as a base for a FISA-homologated GT car...

So it came out after the cup cars...