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Hypebeast
a day ago
- Automotive
- Hypebeast
Porsche Unveils New 911 GT3 Cup With Sharpened Performance and Sustainable Focus
Summary Porscheis gearing up to launch their next-generation911 GT3 Cup car— a sharpened, track-focused evolution of its iconic one-make racer, now based on the updated 992.2 platform. Set to make its world debut later this summer, the new GT3 Cup marks a significant step forward in the brand's motorsport lineage, bringing updated aerodynamics, refined handling, and sustainable fuel integration to the grid. Developed entirely at Porsche Motorsport's Weissach facility, the car has undergone extensive testing across three circuits — Monza, Lausitzring, and Porsche's in-house test track — with seasoned drivers including Bastian Buus and Klaus Bachler helping dial in feedback. The result is a chassis and powertrain package that stays true to its naturally aspirated roots, while pushing forward in precision and balance. At its core remains Porsche's high-revving 4.0-liter flat-six, now producing around 503 hp, paired with a sequential transmission and reworked driveline components for faster shifts and greater durability. The car's aerodynamics have been overhauled, with a redesigned front end featuring wider cooling intakes, integrated hood vents, and a revised splitter to increase front-end grip. A wider rear track and improved underbody flow balance out the downforce profile. The cockpit has also undergone thoughtful revision. A redesigned steering wheel, updated digital dash, and optimized pedal layout reflect input from professional drivers across global Cup series, ensuring the driving experience remains both intuitive and focused. Subtle tweaks to seat ergonomics and visibility enhance driver comfort and situational awareness during high-intensity stints. One of the most significant updates lies beneath the surface. For the first time, the car has been developed exclusively on Porsche's eFuel blend — a high-performance synthetic fuel aligned withFIA'sAdvanced Sustainable regulations. Comprised of 79.7% renewable components, the blend delivers a 66% reduction in lifecycle CO2 emissions versus fossil fuel, without compromising output or responsiveness. It's a forward-thinking integration that nods to Porsche's broader sustainability roadmap while staying grounded in real-world racing demands. Built at Porsche's main facility in Stuttgart-Zuffenhausen, the 992.2 GT3 Cup will begin production in fall 2025 and officially enter competition in the 2026 season. Set to headline the Porsche Mobil 1 Supercup and selectCarrera Cup championshipsworldwide, the new 911 GT3 Cup combines sharpened performance, a modernized cockpit, and a forward-looking approach to sustainability — pushing Porsche's one-make legacy into a new era of racing.
Yahoo
2 days ago
- Automotive
- Yahoo
Porsche Has Revealed That It's Developing an Aggressive-Looking 911 Cup Car for the 992.2 Generation
Porsche confirmed that it's developing an updated 911 Cup car based on the 992.2 version of the road car. The updated race car will supplant the current 911 Cup car in the Porsche Mobil 1 Supercup and several Carrera Cup series. Development of the new race car began in January 2024, with production set to start this fall ahead of a 2026 season debut. In road form, a Porsche flat-six screaming at 9000 rpm is an auditory experience akin to several shots of espresso. In race car form, a single Porsche flat-six reaching an 8750-rpm crescendo generates a reverberation that can be felt pounding throughout your chest. But what about an entire field of Porsche flat-sixes? That sows a thunder felt from head to toe. That tempest of 911 Cup cars is preparing for a change, as Porsche just confirmed that development for an updated 911 Cup Car based on the 992.2 generation of the 911 GT3 road car is underway. The new car would replace the current 992.1 Cup Cars that compete in the Porsche Mobil 1 Supercup and several Carrera Cup series around the world. Exact changes to the new race car are not mentioned, with Porsche preferring to speak in generalities. The automaker says development has focused on improving aerodynamics at the front of the car, which should help with drivability. Porsche said it also made changes to the electronics, brakes, transmission, and engine. Development for the 992.2 version of the Cup car began in January 2024. Development began at Porsche Motorsport in Weissach, Germany, with testing days at the Monza Circuit and the Lausitzring in Brandenburg, Germany. Production of the new race car is scheduled to start this fall, with the car making its debut for the 2026 racing season. You Might Also Like Car and Driver's 10 Best Cars through the Decades How to Buy or Lease a New Car Lightning Lap Legends: Chevrolet Camaro vs. Ford Mustang!
Yahoo
4 days ago
- Automotive
- Yahoo
Porsche Unveils New Porsche Cup Race Car With a Focus On Renewable eFuels
Porsche Unveils New Porsche Cup Race Car With a Focus On Renewable eFuels originally appeared on Autoblog. A new generation of Porsche race car The Porsche Cup has been the manufacturer's one-make racing series since 1990, and the German automaker has just announced its new race car for the 2026 season. The 992.2-based model has been in development since January 2024, with production set to start in fall 2025 at the main Zuffenhausen plant. The 2026 Porsche Cup race car will participate in the Porsche Mobil 1 Supercup and in some Carrera Cup series races like the Porsche Carrera Cup North America. Much like Porsche constantly improves its road-going cars, its race cars receive the same treatment. The 2026 Cup car will see better front-end aerodynamics, as well as improvements to vehicle electronics, brakes, transmission, the six-cylinder boxer engine, and vehicle handling. Four of Porsche's top-tier race car drivers, Bastian Buus, Klaus Bachler, Laurin Heinrich, and Marco Seefried, spent a considerable amount of time testing and fine-tuning the cars on the Italian Grand Prix circuit in Monza, at the Lausitzring in Brandenburg, and on Porsche's own track at the Weissach development center. 'We are already operating at a very high-performance level with the current GT3 Cup,' Jan Feldmann, Project Manager for GT racing cars at Porsche Motorsport, said. 'This has allowed us to focus more on feedback from the global one-make cups and develop a racing car that has been refined in many areas compared to the current Cup 911.' View the 3 images of this gallery on the original article The new race car was not tested on regular gasoline Here's where things get interesting, though. Porsche reportedly only tested the new Porsche Cup car with the eFuel blend they used in the 2025 Porsche Mobil 1 Supercup. According to the release, their blend is composed largely of renewable synthetic raw gasoline, known as MtG (methanol-to-gasoline), alongside renewable, waste-based, or residual-based ethanol, which is "used to increase the oxygen content in the fuel and the octane rating, among other things." All of these components combined bring the octane rating to 100.5 RON. While this particular racing fuel blend was developed specifically for the boxer engines Porsche uses in motorsport, that's not to say that the automaker won't take the lessons it has learned on the track and bring them to road-going cars in its effort to preserve the internal combustion engine. Porsche goes on to say that even HIF, the manufacturer of the raw fuel, is using several clever methods at its Haru Oni pilot plant in Chile to keep CO2 emissions from its production as low as possible. For example, the electricity used for grid connection and control room stabilization is sourced exclusively from renewable wind energy, while CO2 certificates from South American renewable energy plants offset the inevitable CO2 emissions from transport. View the 3 images of this gallery on the original article Final thoughts The news of a new Porsche race car is always exciting. After all, who can balk at the thought of a performance-oriented boxer engine screaming around a race track for yet another generation? Where I feel the even more exciting news lies, though, is in Porsche's commitment to eFuel development. Porsche has claimed before that it will continue offering gas-powered cars into the 2030s, and perhaps this new eFuel is the key to being both environmentally friendly and not EV-dependent. Stellantis also released its own statement claiming that it isn't going all-in on EVs either, so as bleak as the situation may have looked for internal combustion engines just a few years ago, a mix of weakening consumer demand and the endless maze of automotive bureaucracy seems to be keeping our gas-powered dreams alive. Nobody has a surefire answer just yet, but the numerous plans popping up each day sure are interesting. Porsche Unveils New Porsche Cup Race Car With a Focus On Renewable eFuels first appeared on Autoblog on Jul 18, 2025 This story was originally reported by Autoblog on Jul 18, 2025, where it first appeared.
Top Gear
04-07-2025
- Automotive
- Top Gear
Porsche 911 GT3 (992.2) Interior Layout & Technology
Look! Rear seats! Porsche nearly broke the internet when announcing that the GT3 would be available for the first time with rear seats. The option is only possible with the Touring version and is, undeniably, a useful and cool addition. It's also necessitated the development of a new foldable carbon fibre-shelled seat, which is extremely comfortable on the road and supportive on the track. Back seats. That's the big news is it? There is more. The analogue dials are gone, which seems a bit of a shame. Instead there's a fully digital screen that retains lots of the traditional 911 themes and offers the flexibility to rotate the rev counter so 9,000rpm is located at 12 o'clock. We like that. Porsche Motorsport are still traditionalists in some senses. Whereas other 992.2 models have adopted a start button, the GT3 holds on to the key-like switch that needs to be turned to rouse the flat-six.
The Drive
17-06-2025
- Automotive
- The Drive
Inside the Mind-Boggling Logistics of Porsche's Le Mans Effort
The latest car news, reviews, and features. Even before stepping in, it's easy to see that the Porsche Penske Motorsport garage at the 2025 24 Hours of Le Mans has an ant farm-like vibe. People walking at a determined pace are coming and going, Porsche-branded ATVs towing trailers with racing tires stacked high honk their way through the crowd, all while fans decked out in Porsche Motorsport attire bake in the sun like statues, hoping to catch a glimpse of their favorite racing driver. And for good reason, Roger Penske employs some of the best in the business. A security guard supervises the entrance to the garage throughout the entire weekend, and authorized visitors must check in by signing a digital waiver in exchange for a plastic badge before entering for the first time. Once inside, what you see largely depends on where you go and what's happening on the track. The atmosphere ranges from cramped to open, from frenzied to calm, and from dark to well-lit. There's no music or anything resembling entertainment: It's all racing, all the time. Racing is a business, especially for this global organization, which competes in the world's biggest racing series like NASCAR, IndyCar, IMSA, and of course, WEC. Ronan Glon The Porsche complex is much bigger than you might assume, too; it's like a small town in there. The room that's closest to the entrance is where Porsche stores three spare battery packs for its 963 Hypercars (one per car). It's roped off, only people who have a special accreditation are allowed to go near the high-voltage packs, and everyone on the team hopes that the batteries will stay in that room for the entire race. Replacing one takes about 45 minutes, making it one of the more labor-intensive operations that you can perform in the pits. 'The mindset of this race is that you don't give up,' Timo Bernhard, who drove a Porsche 919 Hybrid to victory in 2017 with Brendon Hartley and Earl Bamber, tells me. 'It's not a short race; It's not an F1 race. If you have a problem, you're not out of the race immediately.' He's speaking from experience. In 2017, his car made an unexpected pit stop due to a problem with the front axle's electric motor. Replacing the part took a little over an hour, and the 919 returned to the track in 54th place, 19 laps behind the leader, with over half of the race remaining. Earning a spot on the podium (let alone the top spot) must have looked impossible, yet that exact car went on to win the race. Ronan Glon I lost track of how many people walked in and out of the Porsche compound in the time that it took for Bernhard to explain why it's worth hauling around three spare battery packs. He then led me into the next room, which he jokingly described as 'a Porsche supermarket.' It's where the team stores many of the smaller parts that can fail during a day-long race, such as oil lines and coolant hoses, as well as any liquid that a repair could require, including engine oil and brake cleaner. Porsche keeps three spare transaxles in a separate room, and something immediately caught my eye as I walked in. There's a big, silver-colored ring around each axle. Did the thing just get married? Nope, not quite. It's a sensor that lets FIA officials measure the car's power output in real time to ensure no one cheats. It's mandatory on every car, of course, and if it fails, it needs to be replaced immediately. Ronan Glon Tires are closely monitored as well. In the Hypercar category, each car is allowed 14 sets of slick tires per race (rain tires are unlimited). Every tire is tracked via a QR code, so Porsche and FIA officials can quickly access parameters like its mileage and other variables. 'It's a huge part of the organization,' Bernhard points out. Interestingly, Porsche doesn't own the tires that the 963 races with; it pretty much leases them from Michelin. During the race, a dedicated Michelin engineer examines every single tire before they're mounted on the car, and then re-examines them once they're taken off after a stint. The engineer measures wear and tear and marks anything alarming or unusual with chalk; they then label the tire and take pictures for documentation purposes. It's not just Porsche: There's a Michelin engineer in every garage at Le Mans. The one working for Porsche doesn't exchange intel with the one working for BMW, obviously, but at the end of the race, the used tires all go back to Michelin's headquarters in Clermont-Ferrand, France. Ronan Glon The tires take up a tremendous amount of space in the pits. On the other hand, brake parts from AP Racing are few and far between. The 963 uses giant carbon-ceramic rotors designed to last for the full race, which is wild to think about when you consider the heat that they're subjected to. The 963 is a hybrid, so the brake energy recuperation system extends the rotors' life. The pads are changed once per race. The Porsche complex is massive, and there are multiple levels to it. Upstairs, there's a place for mechanics and the management team to relax, and an office where at least a dozen people have their eyeballs glued to computer screens. I don't think they even noticed I was there; that's how important their job is, and how seriously they take it. They're tracking live data sent by each car and looking for any irregularity, however small it may be. It's always the tiniest details that can indicate that a potentially serious problem is brewing. If needed, there's a second team of engineers located in Weissach, Germany, where Porsche develops all of its race cars, that's a phone call away. Ronan Glon Like most things nowadays, Le Mans is largely run by computers, but there's one task that hasn't been digitalized. Keeping the cars running in tip-top shape takes arduous, physical labor. Each 963 has its own pit crew tasked with servicing it during the entire race—a big job considering anywhere from 30 to 40 pit stops are performed if everything goes according to plan. We've talked before about the art of the Le Mans pit stop, and how it's something that needs to be seen up close to be believed. The crews can rest in their downtime, but they're never far from the pits and always ready to jump into action in case something goes wrong. But what about the drivers? Porsche Penske Motorsport entered three cars in Le Mans this year, the No. 4, 5, and 6, so that's a total of nine drivers, plus the reserve drivers. When they're not in the car, they're out and about. Some watch the race on the numerous televisions scattered throughout the pits, while others walk to what Porsche refers to as Container City. It looks like those temporary structures you often see on construction sites, and it's a few feet away from the pits, so the drivers can try to disconnect for a while while staying close to the heart of the action. Inside, the drivers can change, get a massage, see a doctor, and relax in a private space. Odds are you won't find them sleeping, though. 'You can never relax; I can tell you from my own experience,' Bernhard told me. 'This is the hardest part, to get a little bit of rest, because when you share a car with other drivers, you never really relax. You're always looking at where your car is and what's happening. You can never really disconnect from the race. You're lying in your bed, but you cannot sleep.' Ronan Glon Each driver's mileage throughout the race varies, literally and metaphorically. Most driver stints range from right under an hour to up to two hours. Regardless of how each team breaks shifts up, per the rules, a driver cannot race longer than four hours in six hours. Bernhard tells me that, when he raced at Le Mans, the massage room was 'almost like a wellness weekend.' For him, it was a more effective way to soothe his mind and body. Racing for such a long time, on little to no sleep, requires a great deal of concentration. You're in a cramped cockpit enduring a wide selection of vibrations, bumps, G-forces, and heat. 'It's a better way to relax your mind than trying to sleep,' he sums up. Food and drinks are at their disposal in the pits, in Container City, and in a hospitality area about 100 yards from the garage. You're at the wrong track if you're imagining that the pilots are treated like royalty, with private chefs catering to them throughout the race. They eat from the same buffet as journalists, PR staff, and execs, though I noticed a bowl of chopped avocado labeled 'Drivers Only.' Ronan Glon The logistics of racing at Le Mans are mind-blowing. The entire setup, including Container City, takes about three weeks to set up. There are over 100 people on location to support the Porsche team, and I can't even imagine what it costs to run the show. And yet, in the end, it's all worth it, even if you don't win. 'It's like our Olympic Games. You prioritize this weekend,' Bernhard said. Got a tip? Email us at tips@
