Olympic cycling champion Tom Pidcock gets off his bike and into the Porsche 911 GT3 RS at the Nürburgring circuit

If for some reason it is characterized Tom Pidcock (27 years old) is due to his versatility on the bicycle, as shown by his great results in different disciplines. It is enough to remember that the cyclist from Leeds is a double Olympic champion in mountain bike (2021, 2024), as well as a triple world champion (2020, 2023, 2026) and double European champion (2022, 2025) in the same discipline, as well as a cyclocross world champion and bronze in the Road Cycling World Championship (2019), a modality in which he has a total of 15 victories.

A versatility that has been demonstrated once again in the hands of the steering wheel of a Porsche 911 GT3 RS at the Nürburgrin Circuitg. Pidcock has participated with Kit Manthey on a track day in the Nürburgring Nordschleife together with the Porsche ambassador Jörg Bergmeister.

On the track, he gets behind the wheel of his 992.1 generation Porsche 911 GT3 RS with Kit Manthey. At the beginning of the year, he completed a lap Bridge-to-Gantry (a sector of the Nordschleife route) in 6:52.37 minutes.

“What I have learned at Manthey is that, when developing a car at the Nürburgring, the data does not tell everything. You also have to trust the feelings,” Pidcock explained of the experience. “When developing a bike, feel is even more important to me than data. The Nordschleife is very unpredictable, but Porsche and Manthey make the cars as predictable as possible for the driver.”

to which Bergmeister He added: “Anyone who wants to be fast needs, above all, confidence. If you trust the car, you can go to the limit and take advantage of its potential”, surrendering to Tom’s skill behind the wheel: “As soon as he gets in, Tom knows exactly what he is doing. He has a very good feel with the car and, what’s more, he doesn’t feel afraid. For someone who doesn’t drive here regularly, Tom’s pace is really admirable. There are people who go to the Ring every day and they are slower. In fact, my only advice was to concentrate on the details. decisive: the braking and corner entry points. But he does much of that completely intuitively. There’s a reason he’s so good on the bike.”

For his part, the leader of the Pinarello Q36.5 Pro Cycling Team “I think it’s because here it’s also about performance, just like in cycling. The mentality is the same. For me, riding is basically about always improving. That’s also present in my day to day life. But here there is no pressure. I can enjoy not having to go to the absolute limit. In competition, you constantly live under a lot of pressure. On the circuit, I like that, in the end, I only compete against myself.”