Progress Report Porsche 911 GT3
Top Gear South Africa|October 2017

20 years of road and track development have ensured that Porsche has focused on exactly what the GT3 should be

Progress Report Porsche 911 GT3

In 1998 Porsche won Le Mans with the 911 GT1. This may seem an irrelevant way to start a story about the GT3, but it reveals just how close the link is between road and race at Porsche and also why the GT3 has such a stellar reputation. Winning Le Mans required a new engine, but the cost of developing it was prohibitive – unless Porsche could use that same engine in its road cars…

This was the fabled Mezger flat-six. In the GT1 it was a 3.2-litre twin-turbo; for the 996 GT3 that arrived the following year, it lost the turbos, had modified heads and a 3.6-litre capacity. And the road car’s influence stretched in other directions – it allowed the homologation of the GT3 racecar, it formed the basis of the Supercup racer. Basically the GT3 was the lynchpin that held Porsche’s motorsport programme together.

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