The Porsche 911 GT3 is the fastest production car with a manual transmission on the Nürburgring Nordschleife. Porsche brand ambassador Jörg Bergmeister beat the previous record, held by a competitor with a significantly more power-ful engine, by more than 9.5 seconds.
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00:00Welcome to the Green Hell, the Nürburgring Nordschleife.
00:11Actually, for us, it's the green heaven.
00:15Nürburgring is just a unique track, most demanding track in the world.
00:19It's our proving ground for all cars, especially for the GT cars.
00:23And if you set up a car right on the Nürburgring Nordschleife, it will be quick all around the world.
00:28And that's why we go here, test our cars here, and also try to do good lap times.
00:37Today we're here with the new GT3.
00:39We chose the manual transmission this time, which is unusual.
00:42PDK most definitely would be quicker.
00:45But a little goal is being the fastest manual-shifted car on the Nürburgring Nordschleife.
00:50The testing so far has been going well, and track conditions are very good.
00:5812 degrees ambient, 27 tracks, so I think we should be in good shape.
01:02I think we should be in good shape.
01:03I think we should be in good shape.
01:04I think we should be in good shape.
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01:30In general, you feel the shorter ratio gives you a good pull out of all the slow corners
01:35and I think the car is definitely better on bumps and on curbs.
01:38You can carry a lot more speed and the car just stays stable.
02:00Great success! We broke the record for manual transmission cars on the Nürburgring NotchLive by almost 10 seconds.
02:14I was definitely very busy compared to the PDK. Obviously the driver has to do a bit more work but I really enjoyed it.
02:21We are almost four seconds quicker than the Gen 1 car with PDK.
02:24The main improvements on the car are on the suspension side where we really learned a lot on GT3 RS.
02:30It's all that little things that we changed between Gen 1 and Gen 2.
02:33The sum of all efforts clearly shows here great car, great day. Thank you, NotchLive.