Porsche to unveil racing version of Cayman GT4

The Porsche Cayman GT4 Clubsport has not been specifically developed for the category with which it shares its name, but Porsche motorsport vice-president Frank-Steffen Walliser has revealed the marque's ambitions for the car in the class.

"Our priority is to produce an attractive car for customers and then homologation for GT4 will come some time later next year," he told AUTOSPORT.

That would mean the car would become eligible for the secondary class of the British GT Championship, in which a GT4-spec Cayman developed by the German PROsport Performance squad raced at the series finale at Donington Park last month.

Porsche is billing the new car as "a near-standard racing version" of the mid-engined Cayman.

It has conceived the GT4 Clubsport, which will be launched at the Los Angeles Motor Show next month, as an entry-level racer that will sit under its existing range of GTE, GT3 and one-make cup contenders based on the 911.

The car is aimed at club racers, although it is also planned that it will be homologated to race in championships such as the Pirelli World Challenge and the Continental Sports Car Series in the USA.

The new Cayman racer, which will be built on the road-car production line, will be powered by a 3.8-litre flat six producing 385bhp and will have a double-clutch six-speed paddle shift transmission.

It borrows its front suspension from the latest 991-shape 911 GT3 Cup one-make racer.

The price of the car will be announced on its launch on November 18.