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’Ringing its neck

IT MIGHT leap out of the blocks quicker than a Turbo S, but what can the 992.2 GTS achieve on track at the Nordschleife? Porsche managed a 7min 16.934sec time in a rear-drive GTS last year which, again, is quicker than a 992.1 Turbo S (7m 17.11s). In fact, it’s also quicker than the resolutely track-focused 991.2 GT3, which is quite an achievement.

Even so, it does rather beg the question: why do it? Why go to all that effort designing a new engine, a hybrid system and an electrically driven turbo when the same power and torque could have doubtless been delivered by turning up the wick on the old engine?

There are two declared reasons: first is the new engine’s ability

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