Sunset Sprint
Porsche 911 GT3 RS
A four-litre flat-six that revs to nine thousand and makes every one of those revolutions audible. No turbochargers, no hybrid assistance, no delay between your right foot and the rear axle.
Rear-engined means the mass sits behind you, and on a road cut into a cliff that is either the most reassuring layout ever built or the most demanding. On Chapman's Peak it is both, in the same corner.
- Revs to 9,000 rpm, one of the highest-revving road cars ever homologated.
- Magnesium roof, carbon bonnet and wings. Every panel is an argument about weight.
- Rear-axle steering: the back wheels turn with the fronts above 80 km/h, against them below.
There is nobody to race and nothing to hit you. Nine kilometres of road cut into a cliff above the Atlantic, a naturally aspirated flat-six behind you, and three runs to find a rhythm. The surface changes every few hundred metres and the light drops the whole time you are driving it.
The surface is the story. Patched tar, expansion joints, tunnel concrete. You feel the road change under you without looking down. The engine sits behind you as a constant presence rather than an event. Almost no impacts, because on this road there should not be any.
Every setting is configured before you sit down. Force feedback, haptics, seat position, field of view. Select the experience, and drive.