{"id":36175,"date":"2026-05-20T15:40:50","date_gmt":"2026-05-20T19:40:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/henrypayne.com\/?p=36175"},"modified":"2026-05-20T15:40:50","modified_gmt":"2026-05-20T19:40:50","slug":"porsche-911-gt2-rs-breaks-corvette-c8-zr1-lap-record","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/henrypayne.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/porsche-911-gt2-rs-breaks-corvette-c8-zr1-lap-record","title":{"rendered":"Porsche 911 GT2 RS breaks Corvette C8 ZR1 lap record"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/www.detroitnews.com\/gcdn\/authoring\/authoring-images\/2026\/05\/18\/PDTN\/90147581007-porsche-911-gt-2-rs-manthey-road-atlanta-curb.jpg?width=660&amp;height=440&amp;fit=crop&amp;format=pjpg&amp;auto=webp\" alt=\"Porsche911 GT2 RS with Manthey Kit hits curb in Turn 2 at Road Atlanta.\" width=\"527\" height=\"351\" \/><\/p>\n<div class=\"gnt_pg_img_cap\"><em>Porsche911 GT2 RS with Manthey Kit hits curb in Turn 2 at Road Atlanta.<\/em><\/div>\n<p><em>Porsche, Porsche<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">Motown muscle cars Ford Mustang and Chevrolet Corvette have sauntered into Porsche and Mercedes\u2019 backyard in recent years to set new benchmarks for sportscar performance at the Nu\u0308rburgring race track.<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">Now Porsche has struck back on U.S. soil.<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">The German brand announced this week a Porsche 911 GT2 RS has broken the Corvette C8 ZR1\u2019s production car lap record at Road Atlanta Raceway with a time of 1.22.6 minutes. The record comes just two months after Ford shattered Porsche\u2019s production lap record at Nu\u0308rburgring (only the limited-edition Mercedes AMG One is quicker) with its Mustang GTD. Corvette\u2019s ZR1 has posted competitive Nu\u0308rburgring times as well.<\/p>\n<p>Ford and Chevy are following European makes like Porsche, Mercedes and Ferrari with global GT3 racing programs. Lap records by the race cars\u2019 production variants have become a benchmark of brand cred as they sell in foreign markets. By the same token, the United States is Porsche\u2019s biggest global sales market and Mercedes\u2019 second largest.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Porsche911 GT2 RS with Manthey Kit hits curb in Turn 2 at Road Atlanta. Porsche, Porsche Motown muscle cars Ford Mustang and Chevrolet Corvette have sauntered into Porsche and Mercedes\u2019 backyard in recent years to set new benchmarks for sportscar performance at the Nu\u0308rburgring race track. Now Porsche has struck back on U.S. soil. The [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/henrypayne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36175"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/henrypayne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/henrypayne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/henrypayne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/henrypayne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=36175"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/henrypayne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36175\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36179,"href":"https:\/\/henrypayne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36175\/revisions\/36179"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/henrypayne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36175"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/henrypayne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36175"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/henrypayne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36175"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}