The new 911 GT2 RS is simply the most powerful 911 ever built by Porsche – with the performance level of a super sports car.
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David Donohue is a legend in the Porsche community. Son of the famed Mark Donohue, championship winning racer in his own right, and most recently Porsche’s go-between for 918 Spyder owners, David has been racing for a couple of decades and shows no signs of slowing down. For 2017 he wanted a new challenge and decided to take on the mighty Pikes Peak hill climb in a heavily modified 2014 Porsche 911 Turbo S. Because the car carries parts from the 911 GT3R, the 911 GT America, and the 911 GT3 Cup, they decided to slap the tongue-in-cheek name badge of … More
The cars that escaped from the racetrack to invade the public roads
Ford’s new GT was built to win the GTE Pro class at the 24 Hours of Le Mans. In order for it to qualify under Le Mans rules, Ford had to build a £420,000, 647bhp road car version. Manufacturers have been building these ‘homologation specials’ for years. Basically they’re racing cars that have to be brought back into a state of road legality.
Some of them have been pretty radical. Here are our favourites … More
In June 2016, the P1 LM was launched at Goodwood Festival of Speed, where it became the fastest road car to tackle the Goodwood Hill.
Over the past eleven months, as the five P1 LM production cars have been built, the identical prototype XP1LM road car has been testing. During the final phases at Nurburgring Nordschleife, XP1LM achieved a fastest lap of 6.43.2. After setting this new lap record, the car then drove directly from Nurburgring back home to the UK.