Filed under: Motorsports , Hybrid , Performance , Technology , Porsche , Racing Porsche has announced that it will continue development on its innovative 911 GT3 R Hybrid , delivering a new third-generation model in 2012 in an effort “…to gain extra practical experience under racing conditions and make the hybrid drive even more efficient.” The rolling race laboratory, as the automaker prefers to call it, ran the 2011 season in second-generation trim. That version used a 470 horsepower gasoline-powered 4.0-liter flat-six to drive the rear wheels and 202 horsepower worth of electric motors to drive the front wheels – with electricity generated by a 36,000 rpm flywheel mounted on the passenger side of the cabin. With a curb weight of just 2,866 pounds and total system power of 672 horsepower, the all-wheel-drive Porsche GT3 R Hybrid 2.0 accelerated to 60 mph in about 2.5 seconds. We drove Porsche’s 911 GT3 R Hybrid 2.0 at the famed Estoril race circuit outside of Lisbon, Portugal, just last month

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Official: Porsche approves development of third-generation 911 GT3 R Hybrid