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Manthey's 992.2 GT3 Kit Owns Road Atlanta
Bergmeister drove three Manthey-kitted Porsches at Road Atlanta — and the GT2 RS just took the outright production car record.
The 991.2 GT2 RS with Manthey Kit lapped Road Atlanta in 1:22.649 min, a new production car record; the 992.2 GT3 clocked 1:24.639 min on the same rubber. Rennlist reacted with the usual measured calm — meaning approximately fourteen threads opened within an hour debating whether a kit car counts as 'production' and whether Bergmeister should just live at the Nordschleife.
Porsche brand ambassador and former factory driver Jörg Bergmeister piloted three separate Manthey-kitted cars across a single session at Michelin Raceway Road Atlanta, each on road-legal Michelin Pilot Sport Cup 2 R N0 rubber. The headline number is the 991.2 GT2 RS, which clocked 1:22.649 minutes — a new benchmark for production cars at the circuit, improving on the standard model's time by 2.2 seconds on the same tyre. The 992.1 GT3 RS slotted in at 1:23.932 min; the new 992.2 GT3 with the updated kit at 1:24.639 min. The 992.2 Manthey kit itself is a meaningful evolution: the front axle spring rate is 20 percent stiffer than on the 992.1 version to manage the added downforce, turning vanes now run 59 inches rather than 20 inches, and the front splitter grows by nearly half an inch. Optional forged 20/21-inch aluminium wheels shed 6 kg of unsprung weight. Pricing for the 992.2 kit hasn't been confirmed but the 992.1 spec cost $57,300 before the car and labour — the all-in number on a new GT3 is therefore heading comfortably north of €280k in European trim. For DACH buyers already running a GT3 RS, the conversation is now straightforward: book the kit, book the Nordschleife date, repeat.
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Koenigsegg June 25. New Car. Not a Recap.
Twelve days out, Koenigsegg's teasers show a Jesko Attack wing, a NACA duct, and zero answers — the forums are doing the forensics so we don't have to.
The June 25 drop is widely read as a track-focused Jesko variant: dual-plane rear wing, flush NACA duct up front, vertically mounted stop lamp — all pointing at a car built for lap times rather than the Absolut's 300 mph ambitions. Reddit r/supercars and CarBuzz comment threads are split between 'Jesko Attack Plus', a full new model line, and the increasingly popular theory that it's a one-off for a very wealthy Scandinavian.
Koenigsegg has been running a steady tease campaign across Instagram with three cryptic short videos, each revealing slightly more of what appears to be a new model. The rear wing closely mirrors the dual-plane setup of the Jesko Attack — the track-biased sibling to the straight-line Jesko Absolut — while the prominent NACA duct on the front clamshell points to serious cooling demands, consistent with increased downforce loads. For context, the standard Jesko already generates 1,400 kg of downforce at 170 mph from its 5.0-litre twin-turbo V8 producing 1,280 hp on petrol or 1,600 hp on E85, paired to Koenigsegg's own nine-speed Light Speed Transmission. A harder, more aero-focused variant would trade some top-speed ceiling for cornering grip — conceptually similar to what Pagani did moving from the Huayra to the Huayra R. Christian von Koenigsegg had previously confirmed two new cars in development for 2026, one of which is described as a homage to a classic model and the other on an entirely new platform. Whether June 25 is the homage car or the platform debut remains unknown. For the Alpine-region crowd: if history is a guide, Koenigsegg reveals tend to sell out before the press cycle ends. The calendar says twelve days. Plan accordingly.
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Bernina GT Grid Closes. June Was Deadline.
The BGT's June 2026 second selection window just shut — if you didn't apply, you're watching from the village café on September 11.
Bernina Gran Turismo runs September 11–13, 2026 on the 5.7 km La Rösa to Ospizio Bernina course; the grid is capped at 70 cars, selected in two rounds — the June 2026 window being the final one. The Swiss Alps crowd on collector forums has been tracking this since the 2025 edition, where a 1934 Bugatti Type 59 Sports and a 1961 Ferrari 250 GT SWB SEFAC ran the same tarmac — the bar for grid selection is, in short, not low.
The Bernina Gran Turismo occupies a specific and irreplaceable slot in the Alpine enthusiast calendar: not a concours, not a parade, but a timed hillclimb on a real mountain pass with a proper selection committee deciding who gets in. The 5.7-kilometre course climbs from La Rösa to Ospizio Bernina in the Valposchiavo valley — UNESCO World Heritage tarmac, if you want to be precise about it. The 2025 grid brought 51 cars including the Bugatti Bolide making its first-ever run on a public road, driven by collector Fritz Burkard and Le Mans winner Andy Wallace alongside Bugatti CEO Mate Rimac. For 2026 the grid expands to a maximum of 70 cars, and the Selection Committee has reviewed entries across two phases — February and June — with June marking the final close. The event offers two categories: Regularity (precision driving and timing) and Competition (head-to-head). Entry quality is judged on the car's historical significance, originality, and condition — not the size of the owner's wallet, which is why a patina'd 908 sits next to an immaculate 250 SWB without anyone flinching. Swiss Sport TV and the BGT YouTube channel broadcast live in 2025 for the first time; expect the same in 2026. For the DACH and Northern Italy crowd, this is the closest genuinely world-class hillclimb event on home tarmac.
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TechArt Makes Your 992.2 Carrera Feel Guilty
504 hp, GT3 RS aero shapes, and coilovers that make a standard Carrera feel like it's been having a long think about its life choices.
TechArt's TECHTRONIC Power Kit lifts the base 992.2 Carrera from 394 hp to 504 hp with 550 Nm; the full package adds carbon aero front and rear, adjustable coilover springs, and a bespoke interior saddlery programme — all via the standard drive mode switch, no ECU drama. Pistonheads noted it cheerfully: 'the aero kit is less aggressive than a GT3 RS but it's honest about that, which is more than can be said for most aftermarket wings.'
TechArt's refinement programme for the 992.2 generation is comprehensive in a way that the original 992.1 kit wasn't — they've structured it in three modular tiers so buyers can pick exterior aero alone, add the TECHTRONIC power upgrade, and then layer on interior bespoke work independently. The power kit is activation via the factory Sport/Sport Plus mode selector, meaning Porsche's assistance suite — including the WET mode water detection — remains fully operational. Carrera S and GTS TECHTRONIC kits are in final development and arriving soon. Aesthetically, the exterior package includes a front splitter, aero hood, side winglets, and rear diffuser in either carbon fibre or paintable GRP composite — the latter making the kit accessible to buyers who want colour-matched bodywork rather than exposed carbon. The interior programme covers custom leather and Alcantara with contrast stitching and perforation patterns, all done in-house at TechArt's Leonberg facility. For DACH buyers who want the GT-car experience without the GT-car waiting list or resale markup, TechArt's tiered approach to the 992.2 is, quietly, one of the more sensible propositions in the current Porsche aftermarket.
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BOUTIQUE
Pagani Built Another Zonda. Called It Cervino.
A new Zonda one-off named after Monte Cervino — the Matterhorn — just surfaced, and the forums went sideways at midnight as expected.
The Pagani Zonda Cervino is a bespoke one-off commission, named after the Italian name for the Matterhorn, continuing Pagani's practice of building new Zonda chassis for specific clients long after 'final' editions were declared. No official pricing or power figures released; Zonda R-era figures sit at 740 hp from the naturally aspirated AMG V12, though bespoke commissions typically exceed that.
Pagani has a well-documented habit of declaring the Zonda finished and then building another one anyway — the Zonda HP Barchetta, Zonda Cinque Roadster, and Zonda Riviera each arrived after 'final' editions were supposedly done. The Cervino follows that pattern: a single-owner commission, named after the Matterhorn (Monte Cervino in Italian), which places it squarely in the Alpine cultural orbit of this briefing's readership. The Zonda chassis is effectively a bespoke tubular carbon-fibre monocoque hand-built at San Cesario sul Panaro; each new commission is engineered from scratch around the specific owner's requests rather than pulled from an existing production run. AMG's naturally aspirated 7.3-litre V12 — now no longer available in any Mercedes-Benz product — continues to power Zonda commissions, giving the Cervino a soundtrack that no current production car can replicate. Ferrarichat and Pagani forums reacted with the familiar mix of delight and resignation: delight because it exists, resignation because the buyer has already been chosen, the car is already half-built, and the rest of us are watching from outside the glass. For Pagani collectors in the DACH region, the Alps-inspired name is either a wink or a taunt, depending on how you look at it.
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