New Porsche 911 Cup Sets the Pace for 2026 Track Debut
The new Porsche 911 Cup makes its world debut this summer, bringing a comprehensively optimised one-make cup race car based on the current 992.2 generation to the grid. Porsche Motorsport has nearly finished development, and teams will field the 911 Cup in the Porsche Mobil 1 Supercup and selected Carrera Cup series, including Porsche Carrera Cup North America, from the start of the 2026 season.
Since 1990, the Porsche 911 has formed the backbone of the manufacturer’s one-make cup racing. The series began with the German Porsche Carrera Cup, and three years later, the Porsche Supercup joined selected Formula 1 Grand Prix weekends. Today, Carrera Cup contests span more than 12 countries across Japan, Asia, Australia, the Middle East, North America, South America, and Europe. A further 23 Porsche-sanctioned Sprint and Endurance Challenges and Trophies also rely on the 911 GT3 Cup. With 5,381 units built to date, these 911-based one-make cup cars rank among the world’s most-produced racing machines.
Porsche builds the Cup cars alongside 911 road models at its headquarters in Stuttgart-Zuffenhausen. The current 2021-spec model alone has rolled off the line 1,130 times, and technicians need just under eight hours to assemble a Type 992.1 Porsche 911 GT3 Cup.
Engineers at Porsche Motorsport in Weissach launched work on the new competition vehicle in January 2024. They sharpened the front-end aerodynamics for improved drivability and refined the electronics, brakes, transmission, six-cylinder boxer engine, and overall handling. “We are already operating at a very high-performance level with the current GT3 Cup,” Jan Feldmann, Project Manager for GT racing cars at Porsche Motorsport, said. “This has allowed us to focus more on feedback from the global one-make cups and develop a racing car that has been refined in many areas compared to the current Cup 911.”
Development continued with track tests at Monza, the Lausitzring and Porsche’s in-house Weissach circuit. Former Porsche Juniors Bastian Buus, 2023 Porsche Mobil 1 Supercup champion, and Klaus Bachler, 2024 FIA Endurance Trophy LMGT3 winner, alternated in the cockpit. Laurin Heinrich, 2024 IMSA GTD Pro champion, and seasoned racer Marco Seefried also logged valuable laps.
The 2025 Porsche Mobil 1 Supercup will run on an eFuel blend that meets the latest FIA Appendix J standards for “Advanced Sustainable” fuel and, with all combined CO2 reduction measures,* delivers a 66 per cent CO2-equivalent saving versus a fossil fuel benchmark. The mix contains 79.7 per cent renewable components, led by synthetic methanol-to-gasoline and supported by waste- or residue-based ethanol, which boosts oxygen content and raises the octane rating to 100.5 RON. Engineers tailored the fuel to Porsche’s boxer engines to pair high performance with maximum renewable content.
HIF, the supplier of the raw fuel produced at its Haru Oni pilot plant in Chile, powers operations solely with renewable wind energy and offsets transport emissions through certificates from South American renewable energy projects. The company aims to capture CO2 directly from the air for future synthesis and is installing dynamic battery storage to minimise grid-stabilisation demands, gathering insights for eventual series-production facilities.
