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Bridging the gap between pure club racing and professional customer racing, the latest model version competed in over 550 races last year, achieving 19 overall victories, 80 class wins, and securing 11 championship titles. This mid-engine race car remains a key player across all five continents.
The Porsche 718 Cayman GT4 RS Clubsport had an impressive start to the 2025 IMSA Michelin Pilot Challenge season opener in Daytona, finishing in second place. In an intense battle, Belgian driver Jan Heylen and American Luca Mars narrowly missed victory for Team RS1 by just 0.364 seconds after the four-hour race. The 368 kW (500 PS) mid-engine race car has firmly established itself in the North American motorsports scene and beyond. In 2024, Porsche customer teams claimed titles in the Pro-Am, Silver, and Am classes of the Pirelli GT4 America series, while also winning the GT4 championship in the GT America Powered by AWS series for the German sports car manufacturer.
“Motorsport is and will always be at the core of Porsche’s brand identity. The 718 Cayman GT4 RS Clubsport is proof of this: it is the most successful GT4 race car we have built to date,” emphasizes Volker Holzmeyer, President and CEO of Porsche Motorsport North America (PMNA). “It represents a strong commitment to the GT4 category and continues to be versatile in design and engineering, where it is competitive and accessible to drivers and teams from club racing all the way through IMSA Michelin Pilot Challenge. It’s popularity among our customers reflects those attributes, and we are pleased to support them both in open competition and in one-make racing in the Porsche Sprint Challenge North America and Porsche Endurance Challenge North America.”
The 718 Cayman GT4 RS Clubsport, alongside the competition models based on the 911 (Generation 992), is a cornerstone of Porsche’s customer racing program. Since its debut in the 2022 season, it has consistently delivered top results in sprint and endurance races worldwide. Outside the U.S., national GT4 series champions in Germany, France, Italy, Australia, and Thailand have relied on the versatile Porsche race car. In Germany, W&S Motorsport secured all titles in the 2024 ADAC GT4 Germany series, which – along with the GT4 European Series – ranks among the most prestigious GT4 championships. The German series is contested within the DTM framework and serves as a stepping stone to the top-tier GT3 racing category.