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Porsche 911 GT3 RS - design

A monstrous aero package and carbon parts mean it’s a sticker kit away from looking like a full-blown Cup car

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  • Staggering grip and balance; sense of occasion; configurability
  • Feeling its true magic at road speeds can be challenging

The adoption of the Turbo shell might only add 29mm to the front and rear tracks and 48mm to the body itself, but the RS looks huge when you approach it. There’s so much to drink in, aside from the obvious, towering wing – the body is scooped out and reformed to channel airflow everywhere you look, to the extent the RS looks like it belongs in the paddock at Spa or Silverstone. 

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At the front, the bumper has been reshaped and fitted with air curtains to channel flow around the front wheels, and the carbon bonnet has an incredibly intricate cluster of fins to drive air over the top of the car. The door skins are bespoke too (and shared with the 911 S/T), featuring an undercut to pull air from the wheelarches and along the side of the car. Magnesium wheels nestle within those arches, with spokes that are carefully trimmed away to save weight. 

And no, you can’t ignore the wing. It’s mounted impossibly high on swan-neck supports to allow cleaner, undisturbed air to pass over it, with large end plates and two horizontal elements. The top plane is movable to facilitate DRS. 

As a whole, the GT3 RS is about as serious and intimidating as road cars get. Beautiful it isn’t, but it makes the already racy GT3 look somewhat undernourished. 

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