Published on October 8th, 2016 | by Daniel Sherman Fernandez
0Porsche 911 GT3 R confirmed to race in Macau and Sepang
Porsche has just confirmed that it will field the 911 GT3 R at two sports car classics in Asia: At the FIA GT World Cup in Macau, which is contested on 20 November through the narrow streets of the Chinese special administrative region, Earl Bamber (New Zealand, #911) and Kévin Estre (France, #912) will drive the 500 hp customer-sport racer from Weissach. The sprint race over an hour and twenty minutes on the unusually long 6.115-kilometre street course is held a day after the sixty-minute qualifying race. As the last event of the year, Porsche campaigns two 911 GT3 R at the twelve-hour race in Sepang/Malaysia on the 5.543-kilometre Sepang International Circuit on 10 December. Sharing driving duties in the number 911 car are Earl Bamber, Patrick Pilet (France) and Nick Tandy (Great Britain), with Frédéric Makowiecki (France), Michael Christensen (Denmark) and Richard Lietz (Austria) driving the #912 Porsche 911 GT3 R. Manthey Racing is the operations team for both races.