The Porsche 911 GT2 RS MR | Chris Harris Drives | Top Gear

When the weather was very bad in the UK a few months ago and we did a race to Portugal and one of the best circuits in Europe, we had some good motor vehicles with us, but perhaps the fastest was the Porsche 911 gt2 RS. They are, I know the catchy little name M R stands for Manti Racing, it's an upgraded chassis arrow and brake package for a car that already has more than enough power and if you haven't heard of Manti then think of it as the best Porsche set from Skunkworks. you have a standard

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911, then you go to Porsche Motorsport and you have a gt3 and an RS, well Manti makes the RS model even more rs hypothetically and I mean, hypothetically you have gone out in an RS dt2, right?

You, as a friend, need to make that car a little quick in the turn, now of course your brain would say: shut up, friend, that's ridiculous. I'm still cleaning up my cookie mess after what that car just did to me, but Manti. Now most of the Porsche Road racing team that deals with these things is over, only it has created the gt2 RS mr anti racing, which is an aerodynamic and suspension wheel and tire package for the about ninety grand gt2 RS euros, which sounds ridiculous until you experience it, this is the best car based on a normal street car that you can take on a numbers-based race track that I have ever driven.

I know it's a pretty narrow niche, but it's awesome because it's like a wild ride, you know? a precise little race car this is this is a yob this thing you know it wants to slide everywhere I have a seven minute hose bar for the love of God I can smoke this PowerPoint wherever I want but I can also set lap times What a machine somersaults. I don't do it justice by just doing big drifts so we'll be a bit sensible on the straight and explain some of that to you so the suspense is basically kW systems stolen from the gt3.

The race car is expensive, it still has the spring assist, it does that very clever thing that expensive suspension does, it takes all those slight imperfections and things that your eye tells you right, that will cause a little knock and just fixes it. the moment you load the attack to the type mounts, it's a magic trick, it's so good, how many smiles it's better than the standard suspension, which in itself is very, very good, there is a new excellent pad material to give a little more grip, which makes a big difference is this thing actually drops, look at the ride height and the thing is buried in the ground, especially the rear, taking a little break and I give the car much better stability at the entrance to return, you can add trailer lock, it is always a problem. in a 911 but that's how things go Wow, they don't have anything in the engine around them well, this one feels pretty angry this is an engineering car that has 49 thousand kilometers and feels fit as a fiddle and this is the actual car that holds the record for a modified tram around the Nurburgring with Lars behind the wheel in 6 minutes and 40 seconds, which is pretty hard to fathom, isn't it?

It also has a lot more arrow. They placed a huge stretcher on the rear wing. different end plates have different front splits so they control the underbody it has a different diffuser big difference take a look at the quick map on board now and you can see that I can stay flat in places on this car that you just can't normal cars even on hypercars so the big question is this awesome modified gt2 RS should have the performance to take care of the hypercars and stay with them let's see what happens that's fast this week that's positive from a government survey.

AppleScript eyes, yeah, so 49 5 that's what we need to look for there. I would say it's a puppy like a friendly year, you just have to be able to recalibrate your head if it's happening so fast and you've done that too because it has more dynamics than I thought, more arrows in the fast things. Yeah different because you're like it's wide open through the hole you shouldn't be in the car like that and the whole thing is as you go it crashes to the ground two and a half seconds faster than it ever did. I've been around here with a 918 or a p1 or anything that's amazing in a gt2 RS, all with a 911, forty-nine thousand kilometers, probably fifty.

Now there are a couple of things happening here, firstly the performance of the car. Portimao has an amazing forty-nine five or just under forty-nine, forty-five is probably the fastest by far and is a new lap record for the circuit, but Lars, the guy who developed it, anyway It's even faster to be able to have the record in forty. eight something will confirm that in a minute, so fair play to him, he's young and good at this, so I'll happily leave it in the hands of the best. The other thing to keep in mind is that this car is magnificent, the pattern of this car, this is the car that set the lap record at the Nurburgring.

I love the fact that it has cup seats. I love the fact that it has a 911. Our passenger seat with a houndstooth edge. Everything is a little worn inside. This should never be changed if someone at Porsche enlisted there, if someone changes this car for us to make it look optically clever then it will snort and I will chase you leave it as it is because it is a piece of history and it is absolutely beautiful the only thing is these Alcantara steering wheels. a little assaulted, you know they have too much DNA from other people and themselves, so that's progress.

You come here three years after driving a McLaren p1 and you set a certain lap time when you go two or three seconds faster in a modified series production Porsha without any skill and nothing smart well done Michelin well done kW well done Porsche well done man time so I'm standing on the hill above the beautiful Portimao circuit with the last kern who is a Porsche factory racing driver and most importantly a test driver for these purposes we are talking to him as a driver testing and this is the man who set the lap record at the Nurburgring in the incredible gt2 RS M is samurai racing but he also just broke the lap record.

I got it from everyone. flat behind the powerplant, ok, tell us how the car felt over here, it felt like it was made for loudmouths, yeah, I mean, so below is this mega and the suspension that was made for the Nurburgring fits perfectly here, like this This was quite a surprise for us, yes, for sure we will race a little lower compared to the Nurburgring. I mean, my first lap was already a record. He hadn't raced since breaking the Nurburgring lap record. They said we can go out and install that to do. I'm sure it still rolls straight and the first fastest lap was the record which exactly was already a record and then they were gone when I broke it again it was really outrageous so my thoughts were I couldn't believe how stable it was the car in such a low entrance. at the rear and the sophisticated shock absorber gave you a lot of confidence when you turn the car, you just think I can go faster, faster and faster and it doesn't follow you, because yes, exactly this was the key part, I mean. at the Nurburgring and you need a really stable area when entering the corner and this was very important for me as a driver to trust the car and this is what you feel here if you take a corner, the car turns very well, but when you turn back the direction a bit, the rear just stays and it's like, it's just perfect on the entry and also the traction on the exit is incredible and this tire told us about this cup to our tire because this is built.

I can't take a big step towards myself. Tires, without a doubt, are very important, but they are not the key part. I think aerodynamics and suspension are the key parts of the car. The tire we already had on the yellow car that we broke the record with before at Nurburgring, so I knew the tire, but I think the biggest difference is the suspension and the aerodynamics, so it's a kW shock, yes, exactly, it's a 3 bit KW shock, the same shock we use basically with the TD 3, they are in the north life, they are just different spring rates because the car is a little heavier and you have to be a little more comfortable to use the auxiliary spring.

I saw that yes, exactly how fast do you go through the auxiliary spring? I have no idea, no, because it has a very, I use the word sophisticated. feeling of riding over the smaller parts of the circuit where you think you're going to see something that's going to impact pretty hard on the kite floats through it like a rally car and that auxiliary spring must be doing something that could have Honestly, no I have an idea that it was just me being the sensor in the car, telling the guys, okay, it feels better this way and that's fine, the guys and the engineers at Monta did all the rest and yeah, in the end I felt super comfortable or Also at the Nurburgring it's the same as here, it's super easy to do a fast lap, everyone feels comfortable in the car from the first minute and I think this is what it's about because it looks like a monster, but it's not, yes, that's what interesting, right?

It's because inherently now that you fail, you start to wonder how you felt about the standard car. The standard car is fantastic, it's a great chassis for a track commitment, but if you're going to do more track driving, you should have done it once you've driven it. I like really good red wine. I mean, I'm sure the package is pretty expensive that we talked about yesterday, but at the end of the day, like you mentioned, you have to have this if you want to experience the level of chills and the level of performance and the level of confidence that you can have with this car, you will never be able to go back very quickly, tell me what this was like on the Nordschleife er because I wonder if they have lobotomized you, they just removed your brain, not at all, honestly, that's how it was.

It was really very comfortable for me, it was also when we prepared for the return. I already did lap times pretty close to the 640, so we knew what we could, what we had and what we could do, so it wasn't a monster lap, I just did what the car can do, there's no part of the circuit in the one where every time you get to it you think okay, just swallow a little harder, there's a policy to thinking what happens if something goes wrong here, yes, but this is the point where normally yes, you have to go over 70 to 75 and that's it, but parts like the sand and flu plots enjoyed, these are parts like, okay, guys know you have my arrow more, they'll see in the data if you use it, so try to use it, so these are the parts where it's okay, okay, but it's normal, so it's the lab and it was pretty dark, this didn't help at all.

We wanted to start the lab at 6 o'clock, but he made us wait until half past six and it was already quite dark, you see it in the video, you see my lights on the street and in the first part of the track I was struggling quite a bit with the orientation, okay, it's pretty dark and but For the rest of the lab it was okay, but sure our target was below 40, everyone knows that and of course, but it's just this lap and yeah, it's what it is. I'm sure you'll go back there and try again. At this point, I'm also pretty sure.

I think it's an amazing achievement and I hope you still have a great sense of excitement when you go there and do it because, genuinely, for a lot of people you're living the dream, I mean you. You're the guy there, I bet you can't believe it because when you were younger but you read about it now you're that guy, no, I was reading his stories and I was following these times back and I don't know. I've seen guys crash trying to 740 and now we do 640, okay it's really crazy, but you see how the car develops and if you go back to an old car or a car from ten years ago, 15 years ago with old tires, so you understand why so it's nothing yeah I mean the technique changed a lot the tires changed a lot so yeah I mean for me it's mega nothing better one of the best cars I've ever driven very well done, thank you very much, that's how it was.

So it's faster than a hypercar. The new street legal record holder in Portimão. I think we should maintain this competition.