New Porsche 911 Carrera S (991) laps the Nurburgring in 7 min. 40 sec

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09-28-2011, 04:36 PM

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Originally Posted by jumping_horse

Hi Carrera,

that sums it it pretty well..

Sure - Porsche is not stupid - but now in 2014 as I said before they will be a huge risk accoring to me - they will show up at the beginning of the season with an engine that has 0 motorsport history/background/experience.

If you look at Motorsport history than often such cases were doomed to fail..OK..I know Porsche is Porsche..but I bet they will be running in Problems in the first races..+ what happens to the new 991 GT3 customers in 2013...are they going to be "live" test mules? Ok..maybe Im a bit too harsh..but all this is like walking on thin ice..of course after one season I suspect all major problems would be cleared..but again the first season will be very difficult I predict..

Even the mezger engine was was born once ..but it took some while before it became bullet proof..

By the way - strangely - the issue of the water hoses is not an issue here in Europe..I havent heard of any case..and I know numerous GT3 owners..plus talked to many tuners here...Manthey etc.

Any time you switch to a new car or engine there will be problems. But, in a Porsche, there will naturally be less.

As I said, I bet Porsche is already hard at work getting the 9A1 as ready as they can for motorsport. And I bet that Porsche made numerous improvements to the 9A1 in the 991, but they aren't mentioning them, because that would be them basically admitting the 997 engine was flawed, and would slow sales on the remaining cars.

I know the 9A1 has its problems, but its nothing that can't be fixed, and I'm sure most if not all were taken care of with the 991). I think we all need to get away from this stupid stereotype that the 9A1 is a bad engine, because in reality, it is a very reliable, and very powerful engine.