Porsche’s Track-Only 911 GT2 RS Clubsport Is Clearly Furious

If the Clubsport Package available for the 911 GT2 RS simply isn’t hardcore enough for your track day ambitions, check this beast out. It’s the full-fat GT2 RS Clubsport, and it’s here to mess you up.

Revealed at the LA Auto Show today and based on the outgoing 991.2-era car, it’s limited to just 200 examples, all of which will sell before the new 992 911 arrives.

While the water-cooled 3.8-litre flat-six at the back is unchanged from the 690bhp, twin-turbo item in the road car, for some reason the wheelbase has expanded by 4mm. It’s also 194mm longer overall, mostly thanks to a huge carbonfibre-reinforced polymer (CFRP) rear wing and some minor revisions at the front air inlets.

The differences inside are as dramatic as that wing. Welded into the body is a full roll cage with a removable escape hatch cut into the roof. There’s only one seat and it’s a fixed-back Recaro bucket, natch, with longitudinal adjustment and basic padding. Attached to it is a six-point harness. All of these mods are FIA-compliant.

The same certification goes for the 115-litre ‘safety fuel cell’ with the refuelling nozzle in the bonnet. There’s an air jack system, centre-locking wheel nuts for the 18-inch racing light-alloy wheels, and a fire extinguisher on the kit list as well.

In front of the driver is a steering wheel with shift paddles and a racing-spec instrument cluster from Cosworth. It comes with a data logger, Porsche’s own Sport Chrono ‘watch’ and a ‘vintage finish’ boost gauge. Why not, eh?

Bounce is minimal, taken care of by height-, camber- and track-adjustable MacPherson strut suspension at the front and a MacPherson multi-link setup at the back that can be tweaked the same three ways. Spring rates and ride heights have been track-optimised.

The stoppers are well up to the task. Two separate brake circuits, one each for the front and rear, allow brake balance adjustment between the six-piston aluminium monoblocs at the front and the four-piston items at the back. They grip 390mm and 380mm steel discs respectively and receive greater cooling from optimised (read: larger) brake cooling ducts.

Porsche’s Porsche Stability Management programme has various levels between fully-on and fully-off for those with the skill – or those who feel lucky.

The regular, standard 911 GT2 RS sells in the UK for £207,506 including VAT. We also know the Clubsport package comes at no extra cost (although isn’t FIA-compliant), and here’s where there’s a teensy bit of bad news. The GT2 RS Clubsport costs €405,000. Plus VAT.

Converted to sterling at today’s rates and adding 20 per cent VAT brings the number to £428,960. For that you could have two regular GT2 RSs, say, one in track-biased spec and one in full road trim. We imagine that only Porsche fanatics seriously unconcerned by money need apply, here. Deliveries begin in May 2019.