Daily Driving a GT3 Cup in Tokyo
The only person who wants to put a race car on the road is a person who’s never put a race car on the road.”
From growing up skateboarding to chasing the uncomfortable in his adult life, Tokyo-based Luke Huxham has always had an impulse to chase his twenty percent. Fueled from a young age of watching cars in film, now a commercial film director, Luke has spent much of his adult life watching others drive their race cars on the road. Eventually he needed a slice of it for himself: a Porsche 911 (996) Cup car.
Purchased from Minneapolis-based Porsche specialist 311RS, Luke’s Cup car comes with years of successful racing heritage. After a few years in Los Angeles, Luke brought the car to Japan, and that’s where we join him, through Tokyo’s highways, the new home of this circuit-born, no-frills Porsche 996.
“There’s an 80/20 relationship with it. Eighty percent of the time, it’s the most awful car for any given situation. But that twenty percent late at night, when you’re on the perfect road going through all the banked turns on the C1, there really is no better place to be…”
