Legendary Cars - Porsche 911 GT1 - Auto Sportive
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Legendary Cars - Porsche 911 GT1 - Auto Sportive

If you're trying to think locally and associate the image in your head with the hundredth GT-Something from Porsche, that's okay. There are so many bad versions of the Porsche 911 that give you headaches: 911 GT3, GT3 RS, GT2, GT2 RS, Carrera GT (even if it's not a 911), 911 R, 911 RS, and no. Everything is over …

But 911 GT1 this is something really special. How McLaren F1 и Mercedes CLK GTR, Porsche 911 GT1 It is a road car, produced in very few examples, borrowed from the racing version that participated in the FIA ​​GT Championship.

In fact, in order to participate in the championship, manufacturers had to produce a certain number of production copies in order to obtain homologation, so 7 copies of the 993 version and 25 copies of the EVO version were built.

Race car approved

Techniques Porsche they didn't bother to hide the fact that 911 GT1 racing car; Its dimensions, to put it mildly, are impressive: 4,7 meters long, almost 2 meters wide and only 1,2 meters high. Despite the tonnage, the porsche 911 GT1 weighs only 1150 kg, which is about the same as a diesel Ford Fiesta.

The 6-liter, 3,2-cylinder boxer engine of the race car has been made more civilized and weakened to deliver "only" 544 hp. compared to 600 hp. racing car. Despite the fact that 50 hp less, the Porsche GT1 accelerated to 100 km / h in 3,5 seconds and reached a top speed of 310 km / h with automatic limiting.

Track and road, same DNA

Here we are not talking about a vehicle derived from racing version, but more than anything a registered racing car: the chassis GT1 Racing was a mix of a Porsche 993 and a tubular section, the 3,2-liter water-cooled engine (on the Carrera 911 993 it was air-cooled) was center-mounted, not cantilevered, and had two turbochargers. The power of the racing car was 600 hp. at 7.000 rpm and a dry weight of 1.050 kg was “only” 100 kg less than the road version. The suspension was double-triangular with a push spring / shock absorber, the body was made of carbon fiber and the top speed exceeded 320 km / h.

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