Factory pre-production 3.6 RS in full test for Auto Motor und Sport Image Unavailable, Please Login Image Unavailable, Please Login Image Unavailable, Please Login Image Unavailable, Please Login Image Unavailable, Please Login Image Unavailable, Please Login Image Unavailable, Please Login Image Unavailable, Please Login Image Unavailable, Please Login Image Unavailable, Please Login Image Unavailable, Please Login
According to the Ingrams in their book Porsche Unexpected, only their car is here legally as they put it through DOT compliance at great expense. I have no idea how many cars are here on S&D.
Original wind tunnel testing @ Zuffenhausen for the 3.6 RS as imaged by Auto Motor und Sport. Image Unavailable, Please Login
Another Auto Motor und Sport peice in 2009 featuring a pre-production 3.8 RS being wind-tunnel tested @ Zuffenhausen Image Unavailable, Please Login Image Unavailable, Please Login Image Unavailable, Please Login Image Unavailable, Please Login
Water & high-speed testing of the same car @ Zuffenhausen for Auto Motor und Sport.. Note lightweight radio-delete specification. Image Unavailable, Please Login Image Unavailable, Please Login Image Unavailable, Please Login Image Unavailable, Please Login Image Unavailable, Please Login Image Unavailable, Please Login Image Unavailable, Please Login Image Unavailable, Please Login Image Unavailable, Please Login
Der Rallyemeister himself took a 3.8 RS for a spin and decided it would last 24 hours in the Nürburgring 24 hrs 2010 Image Unavailable, Please Login Image Unavailable, Please Login Image Unavailable, Please Login Image Unavailable, Please Login Image Unavailable, Please Login Image Unavailable, Please Login
Starting with a stock 997 GT3 RS MY2010 car, the questions were asked: "will this thing hold up?" Image Unavailable, Please Login Image Unavailable, Please Login Image Unavailable, Please Login
GT Program boss Andreas Preuninger himself got involved. The idea was to drive the car to he 24 hrs, race it, and drive it back home to the factory in Stuttgart. just like the racers in the 60s! A few simple mods were planned... Image Unavailable, Please Login Image Unavailable, Please Login Image Unavailable, Please Login
A few trick mods later and Walter Röhrl was convinced to suit up and do some serious testing! Strangely, they didn't convert to 5-lugs... Image Unavailable, Please Login Image Unavailable, Please Login Image Unavailable, Please Login Image Unavailable, Please Login Image Unavailable, Please Login
Finally, stickers affixed, and after considerable testing, race wheels were replaced with road wheels and the car was readied for the trip to the Ring with a team photo before departure. Image Unavailable, Please Login Image Unavailable, Please Login Image Unavailable, Please Login Image Unavailable, Please Login
Road trip! The Ring or bust, no Trailer Queen, this dual-purpose road & track car was driven all the way. Image Unavailable, Please Login Image Unavailable, Please Login
Finally, show-time, team drivers Simon, Von Saurma, Asch and Harris. The idea was to complete the race and drive back to Stuttgart. Image Unavailable, Please Login Image Unavailable, Please Login Image Unavailable, Please Login Image Unavailable, Please Login
Top image shows Harris approaching Eschbach during sunset, a beautiful sight! Needless to say the RS finished the race with no mechanical issues. Image Unavailable, Please Login Image Unavailable, Please Login Image Unavailable, Please Login Image Unavailable, Please Login
After the race, the road-wheels were remounted, and the car was driven back to base @ Stuttgart. This RS now lives in the Porsche Museum. Image Unavailable, Please Login Image Unavailable, Please Login Image Unavailable, Please Login Image Unavailable, Please Login
Awesome, just shows how capable the RS is! GT3R wheels, proper cage and race seat added and good to race the 'ring 24h...Fantastic!
Brilliant! A testament to the exceptional quality of the 997.2 RS. And a salute to the engineers, I would say. Thanks for sharing.
Sorry, I missed some info and accidentally deleted instead of editing so Ive re-posted. PTS GT Sliver 4.0 RS with subtle touches such as decals & model designation delete and leather steering-wheel rim (as opposed to Alcantara) etc. Image Unavailable, Please Login Image Unavailable, Please Login Image Unavailable, Please Login
Italy-registered 3.8 RS also at the Nordschleife, in the wet, brave pilot. Image Unavailable, Please Login
Chris Harris' story of a snowy drive captured by this reposted image: "Any day that begins with someone handing you the keys to a GT3 RS can rightly be considered a good day. And so it was, when the man from Porsche did just that. Then the day went wrong. A blizzard hit the Cannes area, like it does every 2000 years. I had the definitive fast-road machine, access to the definitive fast roads, and I spent five hours sitting in a ****ing traffic jam. It was so unbelievably frustrating (as anyone who follows me on Twiter will already know) that it was almost funny. Two events saved me from losing my marbles. The first was our escape from blizzard-strewn Cannes. Snapper Chris Rutter turned Sapper and scouted the A8, which had a barrier down closing it to all traffic. But wed seen an elderly local-type drive straight around it, and feeling de-mob-happy through frustration, we slithered the Porsches hips around the barrier and skidded onto the A8. It was deserted. Apart from the odd stranded truck, we had the place to ourselves. Ive driven that stretch of road hundreds of times: its always packed and almost always sunny hence it being called the Autoroute de Soleil- and it just felt so foreign. So we stopped and took a few snaps of the Porsche in those strange surroundings. And left before we were arrested. In five hours we didnt get above 60mph. Thats criminal in an RS. Still, musnt grumble, you see Im going to have plenty of seat time in an RS over the coming months: Im driving one at the Nurburgring 24hrs this year and (Im pinching myself and grinning like a school child typing this), my team mate is called Walter Rohrl. For that opportunity, Id happily spend hours months even - dawdling about a snowy Cote DAzur." Image Unavailable, Please Login
