New Cayman GT4 Clubsport 20 | 11 | 2015

PORSCHE HAS REVEALED its new race track-focused Cayman GT4 Clubsport: perfect for a trackday blast round Knockhill. Available only by special order direct through Porsche’s motorsport business at Weissach, it's priced at €110,000, plus local taxes: that means around £77,850, or £93,400 including VAT.

Using the same 380bhp 3.8-litre flat-six engine as slotted into the GT4 road car, the Cayman GT4 Clubsport gets steering wheel-mounted paddles controlling a PDK dual-clutch gearbox.

That aside, the Clubsport is very similar in terms of mechanical make-up to the 'standard' road-going GT4.

There’s a mechanical rear differential, although the lightweight rear suspension is taken from the 911 GT3 Cup race car instead of the GT3 road car, as is the strut front axle.

There's no front passenger seat, and there's a welded-in roll cage and a bucket seat with a six-point harness. According to Porsche, the Clubsport weighs in at 1300kg. And while the car comes with a  90-litre fuel tank as standard, a 70-litre or 100-litre tank is offered as an alternative.

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Much attention has been paid to the braking ability of the GT4 Clubsport. Not only does it get 380mm steel brakes all round, but there;s  one-piece, six-piston, aluminium fixed calipers at the front, and four-piston versions at the rear.

In addition, the ABS system has 12 stages of adjustment, and the ESP system has been adapted to work with slick tyres.

Porsche plans to homologate the car for use in a number of sports car racing championships around the world, including the Pirelli World Challenge, the Continental Tire Sports Car Challenge and club races run by the Porsche Club of America.

And here's a thought: there's still the chance of a harder core, road-going and racing Cayman … possibly badged the GT4 RS. Don't rule it out.

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Jim McGill