The new Porsche 911 GT3 Cup is the motorsport version of the new 911 GT3 (Type 991) and as such is the first race vehicle based on the seventh generation of the sports car icon from Stuttgart-Zuffenhausen. For the 2014 season, the near standard race car will run in Porsche Carrera Cup Japan. The race version of the new Porsche 911 GT3 was not only designed in conjunction with the road legal car at the motorsport centre in Weissach but both are produced on the same production line at the Porsche factory in Stuttgart-Zuffenhausen.The Porsche 911 GT3 Cup is the world’s best-selling race car. Since 1998 Porsche has produced more than 2,400 units of the near-standard race car based on the then current 911 for customer sport.