For me, the GTS, not the Turbo, is always the model that tops the range. Choose between the Cayenne, Panamera and the Macan for a track day. The old Carrera GT wasn’t like this, but the 918is easy to drive.Īe: Let’s say you are not allowed to have your sportscars. This is the big thing I wasn’t expecting. You do not have to adapt yourself, you will get used to it after a few laps. TD: It’s a very communicative car, the 918. And it’s very neutral.Īe: Is there anything you need to adapt in order to take a 918 to its limit? After you move the pedal, the car just goes and keeps on accelerating. You can’t compare it with anything else because you have so much power from zero. Speaking of this, we have done quite a few laps in the 918 Spyder. Anyways, we will see what we can do with the hybrids. I can work with all the changes, the emissions and regulations, but it’s affecting the motorsport. TD: I would go for an old car ( puts on a smile the width of a ducktail spoiler). What changes would you make to keep the fun alive? What the engineers have to do is work in order to eliminate the lag in Normal mode.Īe: OK, it’s 2020, you wake up in the morning: Porsche, along with everybody else, has gone turbo.
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TD: When you’re driving in Sport Plus mode you’re high on the revs all the time and the turbo is always loaded.
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You feel it’s always struggling to get back in line.Īe: Everybody knows the turbos are coming, what will you as a works driver to do get the same pleasure out of your daily activity? You have to really smash it into a corner just to keep it into a drift. Convincing yourself as a driver but also the car because there is so much grip. TD: Yes, you can do that, but you need to do a lot of convincing. TD: It’s very good to take the Turbo S, it’s just unbelievably fast, when you’re always in Sport Plus mode and you’re pushing hard. But the Cayman, the new one, is a very good car.Īe: Let’s say the track is ahead of you and you have clear instructions: put on a show. I used to race old 911s, as well as the 993 and the 964 in historical races, so I have a connection to the model. TD: I also love the styling of the 911, the pedigree of the car.
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I actually only know a few drivers which could be faster with a manual than with the race PDK we have in the GT3.Īe: you named the 911 as your choice, what makes it better than a Cayman, for instance? The PDK in the GT3 is faster, stronger and very precise. To put a manual in the 991 GT3, with the power and the rear-axle steering, it would be an immense amount of work for the driver to deal with that. We are making the cars for the customers, not only the racing drivers, you have to keep this in mind. TD: The new GT3 is so powerful, so mind-blowing that it requires the PDK. Not it’s much easier to go sideways, because the limit is double or triple compared to what you used to have in the 997.Īe: Since pure driving is a religion for you, what do you thing about the lack of a manual on the GT3?
You had a very limited area to keep the car in a drift before spinning.
Also in drifting, the 997 was a more aggressive car and, at the limit, the margin was very small. When you want to go on the limit or tackle a difficult corner, the integral steering helps a lot. My love of none-turbos goes way back, so obviously I also love the 997 GT3, for example.Īe: For you, what is the most important difference between the 997 and the 991 GT3s? There’s just so much control at the limit. question - Which is your favorite Porsche from the current range? Perhaps he is the proper guy to talk us through Porsche's implementation of 1s and 0s after all.Īutoevolution: Since you like classics, we'll start with a classic. Mind you, Tomas has a deep background in SAP matters, with former jobs including titles such as Analyst Programmer. Given his devotion to the era when electronics in cars only meant fuel injection, you'd say he is not exactly the right man to talk us through Porsche's Sport Plus religion. A little over 30, Tomas has been racing ever since he was a teenager.
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