Twenty-three hours into the toughest production-car race in the world, the Porsche 911 GT3 R hybrid was leading, more than 30 miles in front of the next car. And then, with an hour to run in the famed Nürburgring 24-hour race, the car failed. Despite the array of breakthrough machinery, the culprit was a simple valve spring.
Now we’re driving the exact same car, Porsche’s idea of racing into the future. Given that the hybrid came within an hour of winning Germany’s premier endurance race, that future is close at hand  … Details
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