Manthey kit trims 911 GT3 Nürburgring time
- Porsche sent a 992.2-generation 911 GT3 with the Manthey Kit back to the Nürburgring, where Ayhancan Güven reset the car’s benchmark at 6:50.863. - That new lap is 2.118 seconds quicker than Porsche’s own 6:52.981 run for the same GT3 Manthey package recorded in November 2025. - It shows Porsche is still finding lap time with aero, chassis, and conditions — not by chasing a horsepower headline.
Porsche’s latest Nürburgring news is not about a new engine. That’s the interesting part. The company took the current 911 GT3 fitted with its Manthey Kit back to the Nordschleife and cut the lap again, this time to 6:50.863 with factory-supported racer Ayhancan Güven at the wheel. Basically, Porsche is making the same point it has been making for years — a track car gets fast from grip, stability, and confidence, not just from a bigger power number. ### What just changed? The change is simple on paper. Porsche had already announced a 6:52.981 Nordschleife lap for the 992.2 911 GT3 with the Manthey Kit in November 2025. Now it has gone back out and found another 2.118 seconds, dropping the time to 6:50.863. Same basic car, same Manthey concept, better result. ### What is the Manthey Kit, exactly? It’s Porsche’s factory-backed track package developed with Manthey, the German motorsport specialist closely tied to Porsche GT cars. The kit goes past the regular Weissach-package vibe and leans hard into track-day hardware — more aggressive aero, suspension changes, and brake-focused tweaks meant to raise corner speed and make the car more consistent over a lap. ### Why does that matter more than horsepower? Because the Nordschleife rewards confidence almost everywhere. A car that brakes later, stays flatter through quick direction changes, and puts power down earlier can beat a more powerful car that feels nervous or drags more on the straights than it gains in lap time at the limit.” That’s also why Porsche still talks about downforce and setup with almost religious intensity. ### So what probably unlocked the extra 2.1 seconds? Porsche hasn’t turned this into a separate new product announcement, so the sensible read is that conditions and execution did a lot of the work. Nürburgring laps are extremely sensitive to temperature, track grip, wind, and traffic windows. Motor1 also, which fits the idea that Porsche kept optimizing the attempt rather than unveiling a radically changed car. That’s an inference, but it matches how these record runs usually work. ### Who is Ayhancan Güven? He’s not just a random hot-shoe for a press stunt. Güven is a serious Porsche-linked racer, and putting him in the car matters because Nürburgring benchmark laps are part engineering test, part elite-driver exercise. On a track this long, tiny hesitations add up fast. A driver who trusts the aero platform and the brake balance can turn chassis changes into actual stopwatch gains. ### Is this Porsche’s fastest 911 lap? No — and Porsche isn’t pretending otherwise. The 911 GT3 RS still sits above the GT3 in Porsche’s track-day hierarchy. The point here is narrower: the “regular” GT3, once fitted with the Manthey package, keeps stretching how close it can get to the outer edge of Porsche’s road-car performance envelope without changing its core identity. ### Why does Porsche care so much about this kind of record? Because Nürburgring time is marketing, but it’s also product definition. The GT3
