Portimao.

We had with us some fine motor vehicles, but perhaps the fastest was the portion 991 GT two R S m r.

I know catchy little m R stands from anti racing.

It's an improved chassis, aero and breaking package for a car that already has more than enough power.

And if you've not heard of Manti, don't think of it is the ultimate skunk works Portia outfit.

You have a standard portion 9 11 Then you go to Porter Motor Sport and you have a GT three andan rs.

Well, Manti makes the RS model even Maur rs hypothetically.

But I mean this hypothetically, you've gone out in a DT till all right, Right.

And I said to you as a friend, you need to make that car a bit fast around the lab.

And of course, your brain would say, Shut up, mate.

That's ridiculous.

I'm still clearing up the mess from my under crackers after what that car just did to me.

But man tie the now mostly portion race tape that deals with this stuff.

What it's gone done just that.

It's created the GT two r S m R.

Manti racing, which is an arrow on suspension.

Well, entire package for the two Rs.

About 90,000 euros, which sounds ridiculous until you experience it.

This is the best car that's based on a normal streetcar that you could take on a racetrack, another base abdomen.

I know that's quite a narrow niche, but it is sensational.

It's like a wild ride, you know.

It's no some accurate little racing car.

This is This is a yob.

This thing you know, it wants to slide everywhere.

I got 700 horsepower, for God's sake.

I could smoke this PowerPoint wherever I want to, but I could also settle at times as well.

What a flipping machine.

Now I do it no justice by just doing great big skids.

So we'll just go a little bit sensible on straight and we'll talk you through some of it.

So it's a French is basically kw.

Systems stolen from the GT three are racing.

Car is expensive, still has the help of spring.

It does not very clever thing that expensive suspension does.

It takes all of those lighting the stuff that you're I says.

Well, that's going to cause a bit of a bump, and I just ironed it out.

Within the moment, you put load into the guy's support.

When it's flat.

It's a magic trick.

It's so good.

Miles better understanding, suspension, which in itself it's very, very good.

There's a new brake pad material to give a bit more bite.

That does make a big difference.

This thing really does look at the right host.

Well, the thing is buried into the ground, especially the fact we're taking Ray Count on that.

Give the car much better stupidity on the entry to return, you can add lock trailer in Boyd's a problem it in 9 11 Way to think goes, Wow, there's nothing to the engine, apparently, Well, this one feels pretty angry.

This is an endearing Kai's on 49,000 kilometres, and it feels fit as a fiddle on.

This is the actual car that holds the record for a modified streetcar around the Nurburgring Lars at the wheel at six minutes 40 seconds, which is quite comprehensive.

This also has a lot more Aargh!

They fit it.

A massive gurney to the rear wing.

Different end, basically different fronts.

Spritzer.

They managed the underbody.

It's got a different diffuser.

Big difference.

Have a look at the onboard Phar Lap.

Now.

You could see that I could stay flat in places in this car.

Well, you just can't in normal cars, even in hyper cars.

So the big question is this amazing tweaked up GT Torres.

I should have the performance to take care of hyper cars or stay with them.

Let's see what happens.

That's good.

49 5 That way you just have to re calibrate your head because it's happening so fast and you have also because it has more than I mean.

I thought Morero in the quick stuff, because you're like I'm wide open through the hole, which shouldn't be in the car on the whole thing is, as you go to it, smashed into the ground.

So that's two and 1/2 seconds quicker than I've ever gone round here in a 9 18 or a P one or anything.

That's amazing.

A GT two Rs just 9 11 49,000 kilometers between 50 now, Yeah, is a couple things going on here?

First of all, the performance of the car around Port tomorrow staggering 49 5 for just under 49 45 is the fastest, like by a long way, and it's a new record for the circuit.

But last the guy that developed it, he went even quicker so he can have the record of 48.

Something will confirm it in a minute.

So fair play to him and he's young and he's good at this, so happily defer to the better man.

The other thing that needs to be noted is this car is gorgeous.

The pattern of this car, this is the car that did the Nurburgring lap record.

I love the fact that he's got a cup car seat in that love.

The fact that it's got a 9 11 our passenger seat with the hands tooth trim, it's all a bit ratty inside.

This should never be changed.

If anyone a porter enlisted that if anyone changes, this car tries to make it look optically clever, then gonna Chuck, I'm gonna hunt you down, leave it as it is, because it's a piece of history, then it's just utterly gorgeous.

Anything is thes Alcantar, abs, thermals get mugged up.

You know, they got too much DNA from other people.

So that's progress.

You come here three years after you drove a McLaren P one and set a certain lap time.

And you go two or three seconds quicker in a slightly modified series production.

Porsche with nobility and nothing clever.

Well done, Mitchell in.

Well done, Kay.

W Well done, Portia.

Well done, Mantle.

So I'm stood on the hill above the beautiful Portimao circuit with last Kern.

Who is Ah, Portia, factory race driver on dhe.

Most importantly, a test driver for these purposes, we're talking to him is a test driver.

This is the man that set the Nurburgring lap records in the amazing GT two R s M island, but also has just broken the lap record.

I pulled him out.

Okay, Tell us how the car felt around here.

It felt like it was made for 40 miles.

I mean, the downforce is mega.

Also, the suspension which was made for the noble ring, fits perfectly for here.

So this was quite a surprise for us.

Sure, we will be around in a little bit lower compared to the number three.

I mean, my first lap was already a record breaker.

We're not an installation lab.

Car had not run since it broke the Nurburgring lap record, and they said we could go out to install that to make sure it's still rolls straight on.

The first flying lap was the record.

What exactly was already a record?

A record.

Then they went when I broke it again.

Outrageous.

Really?

So my thoughts were that I just couldn't believe how stable the cobbles and entry that lower the rear and the sophisticated damper just gave so much confidence to.

When you rotate the car in, you just think I could go faster, faster, faster and it doesn't follow you around.

Is it exactly that was a key part?

I mean, on the new Marine, you need a really stable rear going into the corner.

And this was quite important for for me as a driver to trust the car, and this is what you feel here.

If you corner the car, it rotates really good.

But when you go back with the steering a little bit, the real just stays and it's like, Yeah, it's just it's perfect on the entry and also attraction on the Exodus.

Incredible on this tire.

Talk us through this cup, too.

Are tired of this bill's big step.

To me, the tires is for sure.

It's a quite important thing, but it's not the key part.

I think aerodynamics and the suspension are the key parts of the off the card, the tire we already had on the yellow car, which we broke the record before in the Numbering.

So we knew the tire.

But I think the biggest difference is the suspension and aerodynamics.

So it's a K W.

Dampier.

Exactly.

It's a k W three red temper, the same dumper.

Basically, we used with the 2 to 3 hours on the North life.

It's just different spring rates because the car is a bit heavier and you have to have a little bit more comfortable runs the help of spring.

I saw exactly how quickly are you through the help of spring?

I have no idea.

No, because it has a very, very used the word sophisticated sense off ride over over the sort of the smaller bits of the circuit where you think you're going to use?

You see something that's gonna impact quite hard in the kite.

Floats through it like a rally car that month that helps bring Must be doing something there could be honestly, have no idea.

It was just me being the sensor in the car, telling the guys Okay, feels better.

This kw guys and the MTA engineers, they did all the rest and you at the end, I was just feeling super comfortable also on the Nurburgring.

Same like here.

It's super easy to do a quick lap.

Everybody feels comfortable in the car from the first minute and is this?

I think what it's all about, because this is it looks like a monster.

But it's not.

Yeah, that's what's interesting, isn't it?

Because inherently now you feel you start to question how you felt about the standard car, the standard cars.

Fantastic.

It's a great chassis for a road track compromise, but you're gonna do more track driving.

You have to have that.

Once you've driven it is like really good red wine left on an aeroplane.

Exactly.

No going back.

I mean, sure, the package is quite we talked about yesterday it's quite expensive.

But at the end of the day s you mentioned, it's you have to have this if you want experienced the level of krypton, the level level of performance and a level of trust you can have with this car, you can never go back.

It's absolutely sensational.

Very quickly.

Talk me through what this was like around the North Side because I wonder whether you've been lobotomized.

They just take your brain out.

But if you're going to lap, not at all.

Honestly, it was really it was really comfortable for me.

It was also when we prepared to let up.

I already did.

Left times quite close to the 6 40 So we knew what we what we have and what we can do.

Um, so it was not a not a monster Lep, which just did what the car can do.

There's not one part of the circuit every time you get to what you think.

Okay, Just one of a bit hard.

There are.

I mean, what has been going into that thinking?

What if something goes wrong here?

Yeah, but but this is a point where you normally Yeah, You two go go through with 2 70 to 75 that's it.

But parts like Sri dacoits and bluebloods.

These other parts like, OK, the boys know you have my Morero.

They're going to see on the data if you use it, so try to use it.

Um, so these are the parts where it's quite you're like, Okay, go through, huh?

But it's normal.

Eso it's the left on.

And it was it was quite dark.

This didn't help it all.

We wanted to start the leopard six o'clock, but kept us waiting until half past six and it was already quite dark.

You see it on the video.

You see my lights on the street going and in the first part of the track, I was quite struggling with orientation with it, Okay, it's quite dark.

And but for the rest of the left, it was good.

But sure, our target was going sub 40.

Everybody knows that, I'm sure, but we have just this one lap and yeah, it's what it is.

I'm sure you'll go back there and have another go.

At some point, I'm pretty sure it's well, I think it's a stunning achievement and I I hope that you still get a great sense of excitement when you're going there and doing that because genuinely, for so many people, you're living the dream.

I mean, you're the man that's out there, but you can't believe when you were younger but you were reading about.

Now you're that guy.

No, I was reading that stories and I was following these left times on.

I don't know.

I've seen guys crashing trying to 7 40 on.

Now we do 6 40 It's like, OK, it's really crazy.

But you see out the car developed and if you go back to old car or car from 10 years ago, 15 years ago with the old tires, then you understand why I s Oh, it's nothing.

Yeah.

I mean, the technique changed a lot.

Tires changed a lot.

Um, so yeah, it's for me.

It's mega.

Nothing better.

One of the best cars I've driven ever so well done.