We will know soon enough if he has succeeded in this task, but those of you who joined us in meeting Andreas at Silverstone last July, will have little doubt that the new Gen2 car will be something very special.

Knowing Andreas’ passion for achieving the ultimate it comes as little surprise to find an RS version of the GT2 being offered from launch. According to the forum www.teamspeed.com, the GT2 RS will be built as a limited edition of just 300 units, weigh 90kg less than 997.1 GT2, deliver around 620PS and accelerate from 0-62 mph in 3.2 seconds, 0-125 mph in under 10 seconds and lap the Nurburgring in around 7 minutes 20 seconds.

Not too shabby eh?

A leaked picture of the Porsche 911 GT2 RS taken at a dealer event in Leipzig - Photo credit: Teamspeed

A press release from Porsche is expected to reveal the full details on May 14th. According to a source at Autoblog, the car will cost around €240,000 when it goes on sale in the summer of 2010.

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So they set to work on the car’s 5.4 litre V8 engine and have managed to find a further 80 ponies to achieve 790 bhp. That’s 240 bhp more than than the standard Ford GT. The supercharged V8 reaches maximum power at 6320 rpm and torque has also been increased to 863 Newton metres, which now peaks at 4600 revolutions.

The additional power was achieved by replacing the previous 3.3 litre compressor with a more powerful 4.0 litre compressor which develops 1.25 bar (the standard Ford GT uses a 2.3 litre compressor). Larger throttle valves and a sports filter were also installed to supply the eight cylinders with more fresh air, and the engine and gear cooling systems have also been upgraded.

The Ford GT chassis has been similarly upgraded, lowered by 60 mm with a K&W coilover suspension which is adjustable for bump and rebound. The car has been fitted with 9×20 inch wheels with 245/35 R20 Dunlop SP Sport Maxx tyres at the front and 11×21 inch wheels with 325/30 R21 tyres at the rear.

Geiger claims the HP 790 can now cover the 0-62 mph increment in 3.6 seconds which is 0.1 seconds slower than its predecessor, reaching 125 mph in 9.6 seconds and topping out at 224 mph. The HP 790 is fitted with two 110-millimetre sports exhaust tail pipes – an in house development – which we’re told provide a blood curdling roar as it climbs up through the revs.

Geiger have kindly provided a comparison table to demonstrate just how mental the performance of their HP 790 is compared with other well-known supercars.

Source: Geiger Cars

The competition package for the M6 comprises a series of dynamic enhancements including a revised suspension – 12mm lower at the front end and 10mm lower rear – retuned DSC and ABS , and a modified variable M differential. It comes fitted with Pirelli P Zero Corsa System tyres and certainly looked the part as it arrived at DR’s offices yesterday.

So we thought it would be best to find out just how much it raises the M6′s potential against established metal such as Audi’s R8 and Porsche’s 911 Turbo.

You can follow us over the next few days on Twitter and to make things really interesting we will be running a competition in parallel to win tickets to the Silverstone Supercar event on 2nd – 3rd May.

So we will start with the first question…

Q1: What is the Vmax of each car along Bruntingthorpe’s 2 mile straight?

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And now for Question 2.

Q2: What will their lap times around Silverstone’s GP circuit be? And which will therefore be quickest?

The weather conditions are warm, dry and sunny so pretty ideal conditions for setting a fast time. Last year the R8 with manual box recorded a 2 minutes 13.7 second lap, so we need to see whether it’s significantly quicker or slower fitted with our test car’s R-tronic box.

Again, the person with the closest answer will win a pair of tickets.

Send your answers to us at competition@drivers-republic.com labelling your answers with Q1, or Q2 in the subject line. We’ll publish answers to both competition answers tomorrow (Friday 20th).