TRACK TIME; SELL THE FARM, WE'RE MOVIN' TO STUTTGART!(News)

Attention, GT3 buyers, raise your right hand and repeat after me: "I, [state your name], do hereby solemnly swear that upon buying the fabulous new 415-hp Porsche GT3 that I will henceforth and forevermore throughout the tenure of my ownership take it to a racetrack and wail on it as often as possible.

"And furthermore (come on, this is important), I do solemnly swear that on said club race weekends, I shall regularly and to the best of my ability, per se cruelly and maliciously spank those posers in their [state the brand name of the car of your foes] and any other loser who shows up in a [state some other fancy car name], so help me Ferdinand.''

There, now we may continue.

See, the thing about this car is that it is not made for driving back and forth in front of the Dairy Queen trying to catch the eye of some platinum strumpet. Sure, it will do that, but that's what your Zimmer is for. The GT3 is made for hammering on a racetrack.

The key to the success of this GT3 is lightness-lightness inside the flat-six that allows more horsepower, and lightness throughout the body that allows that horsepower to make more speed.

Each piston and pin together is 30 grams lighter than those in the previous GT3, the new titanium con rods are 150 grams lighter apiece, and the crankshaft shaves 600 grams. The camshafts are still hollow-cast, but are slightly more hollow in this application. That's all reciprocating mass, remember, so redline is now at 8400 rpm.

Air coming into the engine goes through the "ram air dome'' under the wing that boosts pressure by up to 25 millibars over ambient, good for 10 more horsepower. That extra power is not included in the official 415-hp figure, since 192-mph outside airflow can't be replicated in the dyno room.