Nurburgring lap times are an ill of our era but this Porsche 911 Group B rally weapon couldn’t give a flying lap about when the stopwatch stops.

Our summer is Germany’s winter, so it isn’t exactly the time to be cutting quick laps on the famed circuit a couple of hours west of the Frankfurt city centre.

However on YouTube, the official Nurburgring account has posted video of a 1984 Rothmans-livery Porsche 911 SC RS drifting its way around the Grand Prix circuit covered in so much snow it’s barely recognisable.

Porsche 911 rear

Wrestling the wheel and throwing the rear-wheel drive icon engineered for Group B rallying into regular Scando flicks, the wailing 3.0-litre flat six-cylinder – which back in the day produced around 184kW through a five-speed manual – is balanced on the throttle as the chubby 16-inch rears turn ice to slush.

Porsche 911 drifting in snow

Porsche built 20 examples of the 911 SC RS in 1984 to satisfy FIA homologation rules for Group B rallying as it continued to work on the all-wheel drive 959 program that eventuated in 1986.

Screenshots courtesy of Nurburgring.