992 GT3 Endurance Run

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from Corvette Blogger - https://www.corvetteblogger.com/2021...ette-and-more/

Here is a story that will hit home for C4 ZR-1 fans! Porsche took a page out of the King of the Hill playbook and put their new, naturally-aspirated baby through an endurance torture test! Before starting 992 GT3 deliveries this summer, Porsche took one to their parent company?s Nardo test track and ran it for 5,000 straight kilometers (that?s 3,106.856 miles, for non-commies!), only stopping to refuel. During that time, the car averaged 186 MPH! That is an outstanding accomplishment, but it also highlights just how impressive those DOHC C4s were! Over the same span, they were able to average 175.7 MPH with more than a 100 HP deficit, wearing inferior rubber, AND then they continued another 1,900 miles, averaging 173.79 MPH! We really wish Chevrolet still did things like this! Maybe as a way to prove the durability of their first foray into flat-plane-crank territory?