Broad Arrow Auctions, in partnership with Air|Water and Luftgekühlt, is happy to host their second all-Porsche Public sale on the 2025 version of Air|Water, the globally acknowledged Porsche fanatic occasion, on 26 April in Costa Mesa, California. This must-attend public sale will function an elite choice of uncommon and standout examples from the famend marque together with, this 2021 Porsche 911 GT3 Cup estimated at $225,000 – $250,000.
Each era of Porsche’s one-make Cup vehicles are fondly remembered from the very beginnings of the idea that returned the Stuttgart model to GT buyer racing within the late Nineteen Eighties. Naturally, with every successive era, Porsche raises the bar. The 992-generation 911 GT3 Cup was launched in 2021 because the seventh in a sequence courting again to the Nineteen Nineties. The brand new automotive was not solely quicker and simpler to drive however featured prolonged intervals for each the 510 horsepower flat-six and six-speed paddle shifted gearbox. Porsche, as soon as once more, had a racing gross sales success on their arms, discovering prospects from skilled race groups to these trying to take pleasure in a extra aggressive 911 at observe days and excessive efficiency driving occasions.
The DMSB Wagenpass for this chassis reveals it was campaigned by Allied-Racing as a part of a two automotive workforce throughout 2021 Porsche Carrera Cup Deutschland season. On the wheel of race quantity 25 was Rudolf Rhyn from Switzerland, making the step up from a 718 Cayman GT4 Membership Sport fielded by Phoenix Racing the earlier season. Rhyn’s outcomes had been constant, ending 18th within the championship battle and maybe most spectacular, ending each race on difficult tracks like Spa, Monza, and Zandvoort with out struggling a single DNF.
By 2022 the GT3 Cup was imported to the US by Heinlein Racing Growth (HRD) and, on the time, famous to have 60 hours on the engine and a freshly rebuilt gearbox by Allied-Racing earlier than leaving Germany. HRD offered the automotive that yr to a person who used the automotive in PCA excessive efficiency driving occasions and observe days. Underneath their possession the automotive acquired upkeep from HRD and Precision Motorsports (PMR). Notable servicing included a transmission refresh carried out in September 2023 by Invoice Rader Motorsports in Las Vegas, entrance brake pads and discs and rear pads changed in July 2024, and new drive shafts and bearings changed by PMR August 2024 after an occasion at Watkins Glen. In late 2024 the GT3 Cup was acquired by the consignor and has since been used for a number of observe day occasions, whereas being supported by Air Energy Racing of South Salt Lake, Utah.
With no new 911 GT3 Cups in manufacturing for 2025, this instance with European race historical past affords not solely compelling velocity and the joys of competitors, however common care and upkeep as nicely. At present displaying fewer than 8,000 kms, the digital odometer information that the present hours on the flat-six are about 50. Porsche notes {that a} upkeep test of the flat-six at 100 hours is advisable and “minor inspection” of the gearbox wanted after 60 hours. Maybe Porsche says it finest, “It’s made for younger targeted skills beginning their careers in addition to skilled professionals who’re preventing for locations on podiums. And but, enthusiastic traditional drivers will nonetheless discover it simple to deal with.” Succinctly put, the 911 GT3 Cup is a automotive appropriate for practically everybody able to reply the decision of the racetrack.
To view extra thrilling vehicles on provide at Broad Arrow’s Porsche Air|Water Public sale, please go to their web site at broadarrowauctions.com and make sure to register to bid for this thrilling must-attend occasion.
