A friend is at Rallye Deutschland this weekend and was surprised to see Timo Bernhard behind the wheel of a Porsche with Penske logos and a Penske service van chasing it around. It turns out that Penske Sportwagenzentrum in Germany has built a special 911 rally car for the DRM based on the GT3 Cup car - Penske calls it the GT3 Cup ST. Timo was entered in the national division of the WRC event and did not directly compete with the WRC boyz.

Penske Sportwagenzentrum Mannheim

I'm trying to find some stage times to compare with the WRC front-runners. I believe he would have won his class but had some sort of time penalty. This is an all-tarmac rally.

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