Around 120 new Porsche 911 Cup cars handed to teams

Porsche Newsroom reports about 120 new 911 Cup cars delivered to teams, Barcelona shakedown, ABS debut and 2026 Supercup calendar in one-make racing. Read more.

Porsche has started a new chapter in its one-make racing story: around 120 examples of the new 911 Cup (992.2) have already been handed over to international teams, and the first on-track sessions suggest this is more than a routine update.

The car’s European debut took place at the Circuit de Barcelona-Catalunya, where every freshly delivered machine rolled out in the same GT Silver Metallic. For the first time, teams from the Porsche Mobil 1 Supercup and the Porsche Sixt Carrera Cup Deutschland gathered together to run the new Cup car in anger — and on an unusually busy test day that offered a rare, wide-angle preview of what a 2026 grid could look like.

On 2 March alone, the participants completed more than 2,300 laps of the Spanish Formula 1 venue. Porsche notes that the quickest lap was significantly faster than the time that secured pole position at the track in last season’s Supercup race — a useful benchmark, because it points to measurable pace rather than impressions alone.

Those impressions, however, are hard to ignore. Porsche Junior Flynt Schuring calls the new car “noticeably faster than its predecessor,” saying that an additional ten horsepower and optimized aerodynamics make a bigger difference than the headline number might suggest. At the same time, he points to the learning curve that will shape early-season form: getting used to braking with ABS.

That detail matters, because the new 911 Cup features a standard racing ABS system for the first time, alongside an upgraded braking package. In technical terms, the 992.2 Cup car runs a 4.0-litre naturally aspirated flat-six (3,996 cm³) producing 382 kW (520) and 470 Nm, revving to 8,750 rpm, paired with a six-speed sequential gearbox with paddle shifting. A 110-litre FT3 safety fuel cell underlines its customer-racing purpose: repeatable performance over hard weekends, built around predictable behaviour.

The rollout is sizable by design. Porsche says the new car will compete across four series in 2026: the Porsche Mobil 1 Supercup, Porsche Sixt Carrera Cup Deutschland, Porsche Carrera Cup Asia and Porsche Carrera Cup North America. Early shakedowns in Zhuhai and Sebring preceded the Barcelona gathering, positioning Europe’s first big test as a natural checkpoint before the season begins in earnest.

For the Supercup itself, the format remains tightly connected to Formula 1. The grid is set at 28 participants again, racing exclusively as part of the F1 support programme, with eight races scheduled across seven European Grands Prix. The season is slated to open with the Monaco Grand Prix in early June, followed by Barcelona, Spielberg, Spa-Francorchamps, Budapest, a double header at Zandvoort, and the finale at Monza.

The 2026 field also brings fresh focus to Porsche’s junior line-up. Alongside Schuring — the reigning Supercup rookie champion who will race for team champions Schumacher CLRT — Porsche names Marcus Amand as its second Junior. The 20-year-old Finn steps up after winning the 2025 Porsche Carrera Cup France and will drive for BWT Lechner Racing.

If Barcelona’s lap-time reference is a reliable signpost, the new 911 Cup could sharpen the competitive edges early: more outright pace, and an ABS learning curve that may quickly separate those who adapt fastest. The next meaningful marker will come at the official Supercup season test in early May — back at Barcelona — where the conversation should shift from first impressions to repeatable race-readiness.