My third session wraps up faster and not for the last time, I sense the flow fading as Bergmeister leads me back into pit lane. Unfortunately, we discover that he and Long have literally driven the tires off their GT3s—because their cars had less downforce, they’ve been skittering around more while staying ahead of the journalists.
The program pivots to hot laps, if only to further ramp up the education factor. I hop in with Bergmeister, since I rode with Long at a few previous Porsche events and at Thermal, found I preferred Bergmeister’s lines around the track. (We used no timers, in the name of safety, so I cannot confirm which driver’s line produced the more perfect lap.)
Bergmeister jumps right back into the zone after a few zigzags to wake up the tires and shed any accumulated rubber scraps. He’s having fun, all computer nannies fully off, almost yanking the steering wheel too hard at corner entry just to coax a bit of rear slide before loading up both outside wheels far beyond my comprehension of weight transfer and tire grip. He can push and push, hitting full throttle easily 15% sooner than I did coming out of the corners, only a few times needing to flit in a bit of countersteer when the rears light up. The GT3 RS and Michelin Cup 2s handle the display with aplomb—less so my neck and nerves. And yet, after two spins around the track, I climb out of the cockpit chuckling, wanting only to get closer to that level of driving myself.
Which is precisely why Porsche saved the hot laps for the end of the day—as much as I want to go back out and tear around in the GT3 RS once more, this car’s capabilities far exceeds both my current skills as well as my capacity to absorb such an education in only one afternoon.
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