About LAB Eleven
The LAB Eleven Project is designed and built to recapture the competition spirit and sporting essence of the legendary S/T of the early seventies.
During an interview, Jürgen Barth said the S/T name came from the fact that the model was the running gear of the 911S in the lighter package of the base-model 911T. The S/T moniker is something of a retronym, a term to describe several 911 race cars built between 1970 and 1972 prepped for FIA Group 4 racing. That was before the RSR program was conceived, while homologation rules were more relaxed, and there’s no particular defining characteristic for an S/T since each was made with various combinations of racing components offered by Porsche to suit the intended use.
With great respect to tradition, LAB Eleven pays a faithful tribute to these glorious thoroughbreds with their distinctive fender flares and competition pedigree but with a definite aptitude for ‘Stradale’ elegance, enhanced by a combination of later technologies and creature comforts befitting the modern driver.
The cars are based on the 993 platform, and although the complexities and costs associated with the backdate process are much greater than those of the 964 or earlier series, the technological advantages of the final air-cooled development were far too great to ignore during Lab Eleven’s initial conception back in 2019.