This is close to 17 hours of full throttle.
Although the new Porsche 911 GT3 is not significantly faster than its predecessor, many upgrades have made it more efficient. The GT3 is more than 12 seconds faster around the Nurburgring than the previous generation. This is due to the car’s top speed. According to official factory figures, the 2022 GT3 can travel at a maximum speed of 197 miles an hour (317 km per hour).
But there’s more. Porsche set out to make a machine that is capable of going at maximum speed for hours. It’s not an exaggeration to say that this is literally true.
A new press release from Porsche outlines some technical highlights of its new 911 GT3. We are most excited about one piece of information: Porsche has revealed that it tested the 911 GT3 prototype on more than 3,106 miles (5,000 km) at 186 mph (300 km/h), stopping only to fill up with fuel. The car passed the evaluation flawlessly on the Nardo oval in Italy.
Porsche engineers developed a complex oil supply system to ensure that the engine can run under heavy loads for hours. The new 911 GT3 has an oil system that is almost identical to Porsche’s race cars. It contains seven suction stages. The engine of our 911 GT3 Cup racecar differs only in two parts: the exhaust system, and the engine control module. Everything else is identical,” says Thomas Mader, a GT Road Car Engine Specialist at Porsche.
Before the engine could hit the Nardo track and perform countless full-speed endurance tests, however, it had to undergo a static test session. It spent over 22,000 hours in simulations based on circuit profiles. Mader claims that the engine was run at full throttle for a large percentage of the time.