"On a lap like this...it doesn't matter if the car doesn't come back"

If you want a Porsche 911 to set a lap record, Jörg Bergmeister is your man

What hits you is the spooky matter-of-factness. The unadorned delivery of a stunning observation before moving on indifferently. Very demure, very mindful, very German racing driver. “The thing is,” says Jörg Bergmeister sotto voce, sitting at a side table during the recent launch event for the updated Porsche 911 GT3 at Hockenheim, “that on a lap like this, you’re pushing harder than even in qualifying.

In the quest for a white-hot lap time, it is the denouement, a moment of make or break worth committing to only if you’ve nailed every apex, every shift and carried every drop of momentum through the preceding 20km. And even then. So yes, there is pressure. And no, JB doesn’t lift. But if you watch the sensational on-board footage, you’ll see that at the entry to Tiergarten the brake trace burbles up a touch and JB loses 5kph.

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