RE: Porsche announces 2019 GT3 R

RE: Porsche announces 2019 GT3 R

Friday 11th May 2018

Porsche announces 2019 GT3 R

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If there's anything Porsche is good at, it's building GT3 versions of its 911 Carrera. If there's anything it's really good at, it's then building customer race versions of that car. And that's what we have here: the GT3 R for 2019, based on the GT3 RS production model - which is a little like basing your house on the Winter Palace.

As you might expect, much is carried over - not least the mighty 4.0-litre naturally-aspirated flat-six, which is 'largely identical', but outputs an unrestricted 550hp (courtesy, you'd suspect, of the R's race exhaust system and bespoke engine management). Connected to it is Porsche's six-speed sequential 'box and an electro-hydraulic racing clutch, which drives the rear wheels via a mechanical slip differential.


The aluminium and steel spine of the 911 is the same too, but much else about the body is obviously different. For a start, most of it now - certainly the roof, front hood and fairing, wheel arches, doors, side and tail sections, as well as the rear lid and interior trim - is made of carbon-fibre composite. And the windows are polycarbonate.

This makes the single-seater helpfully lighter than its road-going sibling. It's also pushed onto the ground by the airflow even more insistently. The GT3 RS's already aggressive aero pack is just the jumping off point for the race car, where the distinctive wheel arch air vents and an almost 2m wide rear wing help to increase downforce.


Underneath there's a double wishbone front axle (it's multi-link at the back) with adjustable anti-roll bars and 4-way motorsport dampers. Predictably, you also get uprated brakes, with six-piston aluminium monobloc racing callipers gripping 390mm steel discs at the business end, with 370mm discs and four-piston callipers to the rear. Around them go 18-inch one-piece BBS alloys.

Elsewhere there are some new developments for 2019: you can now refill the 120-litre tank from either side; the driver's seat is now bolted at six points and offers better protection in the event of a collision; and the R features air conditioning for the first time. The price for all this? Well, it's €459,000 plus VAT - around four times the list price of the road car. But we'll go out on a limb now (not a very long one, admittedly) and say it's worth every penny.

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cuda

Original Poster:

464 posts

239 months

Friday 11th May 2018
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"jumping off point" #3 (see yesterday's article on the new fugly RR thing)

fioravanti

43 posts

142 months

Friday 11th May 2018
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Ha ha, exactly what I thought when I read that...these are just the jumping off point for jumping off points.

sc0tt

18,032 posts

200 months

Friday 11th May 2018
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Jumping off the point good.

anonymous-user

53 months

Friday 11th May 2018
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I don’t care if I have to jump, on, off or over it, I would love a toy like this !

Superdavros

236 posts

231 months

Friday 11th May 2018
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I think it'd be my jumping off point too....

GroundEffect

13,819 posts

155 months

Friday 11th May 2018
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I'm sure it'll sound nice, but I doubt as nice as the RSR...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LDomFCOWOPc


Mothersruin

8,573 posts

98 months

Friday 11th May 2018
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You can call it 'JoP' now.

I was in a meeting with a load of Police today and SPOC kept coming up.

Me: 'Umm... sorry to ask what is probably going to be a dumb question - what does SPOC mean?"

Single Point of Contact, apparently... Seems loads others had no idea either judging by the 'Ahhhhh's' afterwards.

I didn't ask why one scenario had two SPOCs... It had been a long meeting already.

suffolk009

5,344 posts

164 months

Friday 11th May 2018
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Cackett is certainly writing "jumping off point" with vexatious regularity of late. Either he's got a bet on with somebody in the office, or he's just doing it for sts and giggles.

saxy

258 posts

123 months

Sunday 13th May 2018
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If you want somehing faster there are many choices for that price. If you want a 9000 red line, theres the road going GT3. If thats not hardcore enough get the GT3RS. For that extra bit of hardcoreness you have to confine it only to tracks? Not worth it

Ahonen

5,015 posts

278 months

Monday 14th May 2018
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saxy said:
If you want somehing faster there are many choices for that price. If you want a 9000 red line, theres the road going GT3. If thats not hardcore enough get the GT3RS. For that extra bit of hardcoreness you have to confine it only to tracks? Not worth it
It's a racing car, for pity's sake! Do you think Porsche have gone to all that trouble to make some sort of track day toy? Please enter the 'faster' road car of your choosing in next year's Spa 24 Hours, Nurburgring 24 Hours and Bathurst 12 Hours and let us know how you get on.