Porsche Track Experience 2027 Adds Two 911 GT3-Only Courses at Barber

Porsche Cars North America announced its 2027 Porsche Track Experience line-up on 20 October 2026, from its Atlanta headquarters. Two new programmes join the catalogue, and both are built around a single car: the 911 GT3.

That has never happened before at the school. Until now, no full course had been dedicated to one model.

Barber, where it started

Both new courses run at Barber Motorsports Park near Birmingham, Alabama. Porsche has trained drivers there since 2003, when the programme launched as the Porsche Sport Driving School. A second venue was added in 2026: WeatherTech Raceway Laguna Seca in Monterey, California, home of the Corkscrew. 2027 will be its second full season.

GT Drift: half a day, $1,500

The first new course is the easy way in. GT Drift lasts half a day and costs $1,500 per participant. It opens with a classroom session on vehicle dynamics before moving to the skid pad.

From there the syllabus covers trail braking (carrying some brake pressure into the corner and easing off progressively), rotation, and then drifting itself. Getting a rear-engined GT3 sideways with an instructor alongside, on a surface designed for it, is probably the sanest way to find out where its limits are.

Masters GT: three days, invitation only, $23,000

The second course sits at the other end of the ladder. Masters GT (the release also calls it GT Masters in its subheading) runs over three days and costs $23,000 per participant. Entry is by invitation, and only graduates of the Masters RS course are eligible.

Day one takes place on the Barber Proving Grounds and focuses on advanced car control. Days two and three move to the circuit, alternating open lapping with data review, and the coaching is personalised.

The price stands out. Masters GT costs a little more than twice the Barber Masters RS at $10,600, for the same number of days. Porsche does not spell out what accounts for the gap beyond the invitation-only format, the GT3-only fleet and the one-to-one coaching.

The rest of the programme

The four existing courses continue into 2027. Prices depend on the venue, and Laguna Seca is the more expensive of the two in every case:

Depending on the course, participants drive the 718 Cayman, 718 Boxster GTS 4.0, 911 Carrera GTS or 911 GT3. Bookings go through porschedriving.com. The release gives no opening date for bookings on the two new courses.

Timo Resch, president and CEO of Porsche Cars North America, put it this way: « Nothing compares to the experience of driving a Porsche with the beating heart of a race car. » It is a press-release line. It also happens to fit the GT3 better than most, given that its naturally aspirated flat-six comes straight out of Porsche’s racing programme.

Why a GT3 course now

The move fits a wider push by Porsche in North America to get owners driving their cars properly on track, and then, for some, into racing. In August it launched a West Coast Sprint Trophy series with the Porsche Owners Club. Around the same time, the new 911 Challenge became the entry point to Porsche customer racing, which our French-language article on the 911 Challenge explains in detail. A school that teaches people to drive a GT3 at the limit is, in practice, a feeder for those series.

For readers outside the United States the information is mostly a benchmark. These are US courses priced in dollars, and the release does not say whether taxes are included. The direction is clear all the same: the GT3 is being treated less as a car you simply buy and more as one you learn. If you want the basics before booking a school, our French-language guide to driving techniques for getting the most from a Porsche is a reasonable starting point.