While you may know Porsche for its extensive lineup of road-ready coupes and convertibles available at your nearest dealer, Germany’s largest sportscar manufacturer also produces race-ready solutions like this new 2012 911 GT3 RSR.
The latest GT3 RSR is a serious racecar, filling the range-topping role among Porsche Motorsports’ lineup, and for the 2012 season the car arrives with a bevy of changes, including a sizable widening of the body by 48 millimeters.
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If you think the stock Viper is a brutal machine, imagine the Dodge sports car fitted with a Mopar-upgraded 800HP V10 like the one unveiled at the SEMA show.
The new engine, codenamed P5155872 Performance Series V10, has been developed especially for drag racing. It features an aluminum block and aluminum cylinder heads, forged steel crankshaft with forged steel connecting rods and forged aluminum pistons with a high compression ratio of 12.5:1.
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This video chronicles the final race on the calendar for TRG and the American Le Mans Series; Petit Le Mans at Road Atlanta in Braselton, GA. A grueling 10 hour or 1,000 mile, whichever comes first, endurance race.
The team is one of the winningest sportscar teams in American racing history, running Porsche 911’s in ALMS and Grand-Am. The team also has a NASCAR Sprint Cup Series team. This year, after winning the 49th annual Rolex 24 at Daytona, they aimed to secure their first ever ALMS Championship, but it came down to the wire.
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Through verdant Italian hills, balmy late summer sun and a white, roofless Ferrari 458 Spider, its manettino dial one twist away from full electronic assistance deletion. Prod the button for manual shifting, pluck the paddle for first, solid-sink the throttle to direct-inject the V8 with stout gouts of fuel and – bang! – the Ferrari launches, squawking the gutteral, whooping blare that lies at the heart of its irresistible appeal.
A short shift to second, third and fourth on he first run, unfamiliarity with the hill and handling limits forbidding exploration of the 9000rpm energy burst  … More
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