Pfaff Porsche, Canada’s largest Porsche dealership, and Porsche further added to their collective legacies at Canadian Tire Motorsport Park (CTMP) on Monday, July 1 when, in celebration of Canada Day and the upcoming Mobil 1 SportsCar Grand Prix IMSA race, Pfaff Motorsport endurance racer and Porsche Development Driver Lars Kern (Germany) set a new production car lap record in a stock Porsche 911 GT2 RS. Kern lapped the legendary 2.459-mile circuit with a time of one-minute, 22.36-seconds. The 911 GT2 RS was fully street-compliant.
This is the fourth production car track record set by the Porsche 911 GT2 RS at famous race venues around the world including Kern’s lap of 6:47.25 around the 12.94-mile Nürburgring Nordschleife in September 2017. Other North American records set with the car include Road Atlanta where, last March, Rolex 24-Hour winner Randy Pobst lapped the 2.52-mile circuit in 1:24.88. 24 Hours of Le Mans and Daytona winner David Donohue bested the existing Road America production car time when he covered the 4-mile distance in 2:15.17.
All three of the North American tracks are on the IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar Championship calendar with the Mobil 1 SportsCar Grand Prix at CTMP scheduled for Sunday, July 7, Road America set for August 4 and Road Atlanta, home of the season-closing Petit Le Mans, on October 12.
