{"id":674429,"date":"2026-07-05T03:27:14","date_gmt":"2026-07-05T03:27:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/674429\/"},"modified":"2026-07-05T03:27:14","modified_gmt":"2026-07-05T03:27:14","slug":"gunther-werks-f-26-1067bhp-911-slantnose-bids-for-goodwood-hill-record","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/674429\/","title":{"rendered":"Gunther Werks F-26: 1067bhp 911 ‘Slantnose’ bids for Goodwood hill record"},"content":{"rendered":"

Californian Porsche tuner Gunther Weeks will bid for class victory on the Goodwood Festival of Speed<\/a> hillclimb next week, with a 1000bhp-plus reimagining of the iconic Porsche 911<\/a> Slantnose.<\/p>\n

Project F-26 \u2013 numbered for the amount of examples that will be built, at around \u00a31.2m apiece \u2013 is a fighter jet-inspired recreation of the distinctive 935 Slantnose of the 1970s, based on the 993-generation 911.<\/p>\n

It is powered by a twin-turbocharged (but still traditionally air-cooler) 4.0-litre Mezger flat six, co-developed with a racing firm to produce a colossal 1067bhp \u2013 a little more than the Ferrari 849 Testarossa, for reference \u2013 and some 750lb ft of torque.<\/p>\n

Those outrageous reserves are sent through a six-speed manual gearbox and limited-slip differential to the rear axle, and should be good for true supercar performance figures given the carbon-bodied F-26 only weighs 1225kg dry – less than a Lotus Emira<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Gunther Works is hoping it will take the fastest time in its class when it runs up the hill at the Sussex festival next weekend, with ex-F1 and Nascar driver Scott Speed at the helm.<\/p>\n

The company is likely to field the F-26 in the production road car category, the fastest of which at 2025’s event was the Koenigsegg Sadair’s Spear, which ascended the 1.16-mile climb in just 47.14 seconds.<\/p>\n

The outright hillclimb record is still held by Gloucestershire-based McMurtry, whose 1000bhp electric fan car, the Sp\u00e9irling<\/a>, went from bottom to top in 39.08 seconds in 2023\u00a0– a record that is unlikely to be broken for some time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Californian Porsche tuner Gunther Weeks will bid for class victory on the Goodwood Festival of Speed hillclimb next…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":674430,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[59,86,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-674429","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-technology","tag-gb","tag-technology","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/674429","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=674429"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/674429\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/674430"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=674429"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=674429"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=674429"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}