Everyone has needs. Water, food, shelter, the occasional hug...and a Porsche 911 GT3 Cup. Yeah, that’s a need. Let the Mauro Motorsports 997 GT3 Cup demonstrate why that’s been added to my short list of needs: this rear-engined rocketship just passes everything with ease.

Welcome to , a feature where we spend that pesky time between races looking at awesome footage from inside the car.

John Mauro recently picked up this ex-Level 5/Kelly-Moss Porsche 997 Cup car, which he shares with Michael Gerowitz for NASA Time Trials. It looks very similar to , but was actually a different car, as this was a back-up car that was sold to a Pirelli GT3 Cup Trophy USA West team before Mauro bought it. Anyway, here’s some of Gerowitz’s time behind the wheel at The Mid-Ohio Sports Car Course.

Scott Tucker is a curious bird: great at running a winning race team, not so great at staying out…

This car not only blew by nearly everything it met on track, but it also crushed the TT1 class record for Mid-Ohio in the first session of the day with a 1:34.6 lap time. (Several other TT1 cars broke the record as the day went on, including a 911 Turbo later in the day that claimed the record for the day, so Porsche for the win.)

Crank up the speakers. Bask in the glory of that wonderful flat-six punctuated by rapid-fire shifts.

Yes, this is why I need a GT3 Cup car.

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[H/T Michael Gerowitz]