The Porsche 911 GT3 RS has set the production car lap record at Road America

Porsche has broken its own lap record at Road America, with the 992-generation 911 GT3 RS tearing nearly two seconds out of the previous 911 GT2 RS’s time.

Veteran Porsche race car driver Dimitri Dimakos lapped the four-mile circuit in just two minutes and 13.8 seconds, bettering the previous two minutes and 15.1 seconds record set by David Donohue in a Porsche 911 GT2 RS back in 2019. Need we remind you, the 911 GT3 RS has 180bhp less than the 911 GT2 RS. Wowsers.

Porsche also says the time, which was set in near perfect conditions on the freshly paved track, was over four and a half seconds quicker around the 14-turn course, compared to the previous generation 911 GT3 RS.

And this wasn’t some fancy track special, either. The 911 GT3 RS used was a privately owned car which had been delivered to its owner just weeks prior, with Porsche’s pre-lap treatment consisting of a track alignment and the fitment of optional, road-legal Michelin Pilot Sport Cup 2 R N0 tyres. Which were presumably toast by the time Dimakos had finished. 

“The biggest thing is not necessarily the lap time, it is the ease at which the car can achieve that lap time and the confidence it inspires in the driver,” he said. 

“The car can be driven by someone who is a novice or intermediate level driver and still be very fast and comfortable to drive. The braking is nearly identical to what we run in the 911 GT3 Cup car. I was braking at exactly the same spot. No wiggling at all. The car stopped exactly straight, turned-in great.”

Next stop: world domination…