My driving-school automobile was, effectively, I don’t bear in mind. I do know it was some Nineties GM full-size sedan, perhaps a Buick Park Avenue. The purpose is that it was forgettable. It was not a Porsche 911 GT3 RS with a Manthey Racing efficiency equipment.
Porsche introduced on Tuesday that it now permits college students to drive a 911 GT3 RS Manthey in its Monitor Expertise driver-education program at Barber Motorsports Park in Alabama. College students get to drive the automobile within the three extra superior lessons: The three-day Masters RS, the four-day Masters RSR, and the invite-only Masters TR. The RS and RSR packages are designed to get college students an SCCA Full Competitors license.
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The GT3 RS is already essentially the most hardcore factor Porsche makes, with a loopy aero package deal that helps it make about as a lot downforce as a 911 race automobile does at Le Mans. Manthey Racing is a Nürburgring-based Porsche subsidiary that, amongst different issues, develops dealing with kits for Porsche GT fashions.
For the GT3 RS, the Manthey equipment features a bigger splitter, dive planes, a bigger rear diffuser, and a much bigger rear wing. Oh, and a carbon-fiber panel with a shark fin that replaces the rear window. Porsche claims 2,200 kilos of downforce at 177 MPH—about 20 % greater than a normal GT3 RS. The automobile additionally will get stiffer springs, semi-active coilovers, and stainless-steel brake strains.
This can be a great way for Porsche to get potential prospects into its hardest-core 911 but and to indicate off its immense capabilities. Nevertheless it’s additionally an excellent automobile for a racing faculty. With this a lot downforce and the identical engine as a 911 GT3 Cup automobile, a GT3 RS Manthey is about as shut as a race-car driving expertise you’ll be able to have in a street automobile. If somebody’s going to Porsche’s Monitor Expertise to learn to drive actual race vehicles, they may do rather a lot worse than driving in one in all these.
Just like the automobile itself, this system isn’t low cost. The Masters RS faculty prices $9,700, which is each some huge cash and about par for this kind of racing faculty. (Porsche doesn’t listing pricing for Masters RSR or TR on its Monitor Expertise website.) The vehicles can be found for college kids now and will likely be at Barber till Spring 2026.
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