Photography Porsche/Jürgen Tap. Taken from Motor Sport, May 2021

If you want to know how far removed from even the raciest street-legal Porsche this 911 RSR-19 – its current Le Mans and World Endurance Championship contender – is you don’t need to drive it, though I have. You don’t even need to pore over its specification, nor crawl all over it, though I did. All you really need to do is ask Porsche’s head of WEC operations Alex Stehlig a simple question.

“If I gave you a new road 911 and asked you to turn it into an RSR…” And that’s as far as you get before Stehlig looks at you as if you’ve parted company with your senses. “You couldn’t,” he says, wide-eyed at the thought.