New 911 GT3 RS sets a lap time of 6:56.4 minutes through the "Green Hell" Most powerful 911 with naturally aspirated engine sets benchmark at the Nürburgring-Nordschleife #ATLANTA, April 20, 2018 /@PRNewswire/ -- Porsche Works #racedriver Kévin Estre recently set a lap time of 6:56.4 minutes with the 520 hp GT3 RS. #Porsche development driver Lars Kern shared driving duties with Estre, and the Frenchman's #laptime was 24 seconds faster than the best time achieved with the previous GT3 RS model. Following the #918Spyder and the 911 #GT2RS, the new #GT3RS is the third production Porsche sports car with a notarized lap time of less than seven minutes on the "Green Hell." As is customary for record drives, the time was measured around the 20.6-kilometer lap. "No other Porsche model gets as close to racing as the new GT3 RS. Many innovative ideas from top-level #motorsport were transferred, for example, from the 911 GT3 R," said Frank Steffen Walliser, Vice President Motorsport and #GTCars. "This is what our philosophy for GT models is about: Highest #technology must be fascinating but tangible. In this regard, there is no harder test for our ideas than the #Nordschleife." Andreas Preuninger, Director #GTModelLine, added; "All four lap times of both drivers were below seven minutes and only tenths of a second apart. This proves not only the outstanding power of the GT3 RS, but also its extraordinary driveability. A perfectly composed overall system allows for highly #dynamicperformance even with a relatively modest #enginepower. For a driver, each of the car's thousands of parts have to feel like one – that's an unbeatable strength of the GT3 RS. And what especially delights me is how much fun Lars and Kévin had when driving that car."