This 996-generation ... the 89th GT3 to drive off the assembly line way back in 1999, and was quickly conscripted into the on-track battle for one-make series supremacy as a GT3 Cup racer.

Such is the way of things and certainly a 996 GT3 driver will feel like they can exercise their car more easily and less conspicuously (the 3.8 sounds like a Cup car, the flat-six howl audible for ...

Amongst 911s you could make a case for many an RS model, or even the 1987 Carrera CS (for Club Sport), being a forerunner of the current GT3, but in the end the 996 GT3 was just too neat to ignore ...