Porsche 991 Carrera S Nurburgring in 7:40

The new Porsche 991 Carrera S has a disconnect time of 7 minutes and 40 seconds at the Nurburgring . This is a surprising result which exceeds by more than 13 seconds, the time registered by the current version. The confirmation was given by August Achleitner , production manager of Porsche 911 at the head GoAuto . This time coincides with that of the Porsche 997 GT3 , a car designed specifically for the track, while the Carrera S record had normal tires and lowered by only 20 mm.

Porsche 991 Carrera S: Nurburgring in 7:40

Porsche 991 Carrera S: Nurburgring in 7:40

The new model of the Porsche 911 made ??its official debut at the Frankfurt Motor Show in 2011 and with this result (if confirmed) is close to the performance of a sacred monster of sports cars like the Nissan GT-R (7:24). “Do not is important to us, but only for comparison with the previous model, ” said the source cited Achleitner. In any case, with the introduction of future versions of GT3 is possible that the new edition of the 991 Carrera S can take time even faster beating new records. The time of 7:40 was obtained using a Porsche Carrera S with 3.4 engine in six horizontally opposed (boxer) from 400 hp of power . A great work was needed to reduce weight. Despite an increase of about 80 kg in the mass of members, in fact, the engineers have managed to make the new 911 lighter by about 40 kg over the previous model.