![]() ![]() No Porsche comes with caster adjustment, so we have to make the caster adjustable because when you give it more camber the caster automatically goes positive. “We have front thrust arms, which have spherical bearings. “This has suspension pieces we just developed and we’re testing on this car,” he said. But otherwise, the tire wear is really the same.”Īs to the specific suspension setup I had, Ward explained what they’d done. That’s the only downside to driving it on the street. “This car, when you drive it on the freeway, is very darty, it wants to follow the grooves in the road. Porsche's New 911 GT3 R Could Be Track Perfection But the setup was still the more aggressive slicks setup, which came with its own set of characteristics. Since I would be driving it on the street, they put Goodyear F1s on it, 265/35-20 front and 315/30-21s rear. When you set up a car with slicks it needs to be way more aggressive because of the grip that the slick is giving you. So when we go to the track with this car we have… it comes with 20 inch (tires) on the front 21 on the back, for the track we put Pirelli slicks on it on Forgeline Motorsport wheels. “This car is set up probably the most aggressive. “If you’re a guy that just tracks the car a couple times a year, then we’ll just do kind of a suspension setup, lower the car, give it a little more aggressive alignment, and you’d like to always go with the roll bar and harnesses because you’re safe, you can actually drive better that way, because you’re not holding on to the steering wheel when you’re going around the corner trying to stop yourself from slamming into the door panel or the center console. There are certain things that they like to do to all their cars. “It’s taking a street car and the guy that wants to take it out on the track and be safe, we put a roll bar and six-point harnesses in it, we set up the suspension, we upgrade the brakes, we do the exhaust as well. It’s kind of really showing what we do,” Ward said. The setup for this particular car was midpoint between street and track, so it could demonstrate the best of both possibilities. Instead of Thermal, where I probably should have driven it, I drove it instead on my favorite twisty mountain road. To prove this point, GMG let me drive their new in-house project car, a beautiful blue 992 911 GT3. Of course, some drivers are not as fast as they think they are-who among us is? Regardless of your starting point, GMG has proprietary parts, as well as an intimate understanding of Porsche 911s and a few other cars, so that whatever they do to your setup, you will almost certainly go faster and most likely be more comfortable while doing it. Ward rides with the client for several laps to gauge the client’s driving style and abilities. Usually it goes like this: GMG arranges to meet the client at The Thermal Club, a splendid motorsports facility out past Palm Springs, where GMG has a shop. It’s not like a job interview, but more of career planning assesment to establish goals. “So as I interview people, before they even spend one dollar with us, I ask, ‘What are your goals? What are you trying to achieve?’ Because we don’t need to set up your car for racing if you just want to take it out on a track day once or twice.” “My background is more in psychology,” said Allen Ward, longtime general manager of GMG. Maybe you say you want the stiffest, fastest, most brutal setup imaginable for your 911, because you want to go fast, man! GMG could certainly give you that, but their approach is a little different. You go to GMG and think you know what you want, and maybe you do, but maybe you don’t. Remember that scene in Carswhere Lightning McQueen goes to Luigi’s Casa della Tires and says he wants a new set of tires and he knows what he wants? Luigi says, “No, no, no, no, you do not know what you want, Luigi know what you want!” Think of Global Motorsports Group as your own personal Luigi. The blue car you see here costs $206,100, including the vehicle price and all its GMG performance upgrades.The company’s specialty is suspension work, but it also does exhaust and aero.Global Motorsports Group has been tuning race cars for over 20 years, some that have won championships and others that are just fun to drive on the street. ![]()
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