That was a fast response. You must be not busy at work today.

Knowing the setup of your GT3, I say you will have a harder time breaking loose its rear end than the C2S.

Coming to the BBC drive this Sat am?

 

I will be there, see you then.

 

Try to find an empty parking lot and after a rain try drifting your car on the wet surface.

 

I agree with the comments so far.

I haven't been able to get the thing to slide at all on public roads and I've certainly tried (under safe conditions with good recovery area). Ample testing by many people indicates that the limits of a 996 or 997 (or 991) are very high.

Just don't do anything crazy like braking hard in the middle of a high-speed sharp corner, or coming into a corner way too fast ("slow in, fast out" is the maxim). The car is amazing, but it still has to obey the laws of physics.

 

It is simple, turn the wheel and hit the gas

 

Karting builds confidence and when you through it away it's a lot less expensive.

 

With the older 911's, up until the 997 actually, that may have been true. I noticed subtle differences between the 911 and 964 and between the 964 and 993, but there is no comparing the 997 to anyone of those cars, it is TAME when comparing to the older cars.

Get involved in your Porsche club and do some driving events and soon your confidence will be high enough to enjoy your car without being a granny.

 

I had the same fear. Then I went to Infineon Racetrack and sat in the passenger seat while an instructor took me around the track. Whatever my perceptions were about ability to hold completely vanished. The 911 held firm at speeds double that of what I would drive and the instructor said "we're only driving at 75%". 90-100mph into serious turns...

A quick excercise to give you "feel" is to do doughnuts in an empty parking lot until you loose control.