Final 718 Cayman GT4 RS Clubsport With Porsche Museum Livery Finishes Fourth at Nürburgring
A final 718 Cayman GT4 RS Clubsport wearing a Porsche Museum livery finished fourth in the NLS six-hour race, now joining Porsche's company collection.
- 75 years
- 4th place overall
- 1,500+
- 2027
What Happened
To mark '75 Years of Porsche Motorsport', Porsche Heritage and Museum created a 718 Cayman GT4 RS Clubsport with an exclusive Porsche Museum livery and entered it in the six-hour ADAC Ravenol Nürburgring Endurance Series (NLS) at the Nürburgring on 1 August 2026. Timo Bernhard and Jörg Bergmeister shared the number 718 car and finished fourth overall. The museum team accompanied the car from body shell to final appearance, and the car will join the company collection after earning its place with racing kilometres on slick tyres. This was also the first time Porsche Heritage and Museum joined forces with the motorsport specialists in Weissach and Team 75 Motorsport for a contemporary race entry.
“This vehicle tells its story from different perspectives: it makes the connection to the museum visible, represents the present-day customer racing programme and carries the heritage of Zuffenhausen out into the world.”
“This vehicle is our contribution to '75 Years of Porsche Motorsport'. It does not simply tell history, it continues to write it.”
Porsche enters the GT4 category with Cayman-based racing cars.
Armin Burger and Jörg Bergmeister discuss the 718 Cayman GT4 RS Clubsport on the return from Le Mans, sparking the museum tribute idea.
The museum-liveried car races in the NLS six-hour race at the Nürburgring, finishing fourth overall.
A documentary on the car's creation from production to track premieres on Porsche's YouTube channel.
The 718 Cayman GT4 RS Clubsport's homologation ends and the 911-based Porsche 911 GT4 R begins competition.
- Bodyshell prepared in the Zuffenhausen body shop.
- Specialists integrated a safety cage, reinforcements, air-jack mounting points and other race-specific components.
- At the Volkswagen plant in Osnabrück, the car was assembled, painted and fitted with natural-fibre components made from flax.
- Manthey Racing at the Nürburgring carried out setup work, vehicle measurement, AG10 approval and initial testing.
The livery translates the Porsche Museum's architecture into motion: matte white mirrors the façade, black elements echo window bands, grey surfaces reflect the forecourt, diamond patterns recreate the aluminium exterior skin, and roof foil tiles reference the reflective elements beneath the cantilevered roof. A silver graphic recalls the sculpture on the roundabout, while 'Porsche Museum' lettering matches the building's façade typography and the Christophorus restaurant logo appears on the body. Internally known as the 982 generation, the car is the final mid-engined racing car produced in Zuffenhausen, with a high-revving six-cylinder boxer engine, circuit-optimised aerodynamics and a stripped-back, functional interior. Porsche has produced more than 1,500 Cayman-based racing cars since entering GT4 in 2016; the 718 is homologated until 2027, when the 911-based 911 GT4 R—the first GT4 racer on the 911 platform and an expansion of Porsche's customer racing portfolio—will succeed it. Porsche says track insights flow directly into production-vehicle development, and the design references both the museum and Porscheplatz as the shared origin of road cars and motorsport.
“This vehicle has become every bit as capable and as fast as a super sports car.”
Previously from Porsche
Prior coverage from July 30, 2026 reported that Porsche Motorsport frames racing as a testbed for greener road cars, citing 600 kW regenerative braking and recycled carbon-fiber materials as examples. That theme is echoed in today's tribute, where Porsche says insights gained on the racetrack flow directly into the development of production vehicles.
Background drawn from MotorClaw's earlier coverage of Porsche's official releases.
Why this matters
This is the last mid-engined 718 racing car built in Zuffenhausen and marks 75 years of Porsche motorsport, closing an era for customer racing teams as the first 911-based GT4 racer arrives in 2027. It is also the first Porsche Heritage and Museum collaboration with Weissach and Team 75 Motorsport for a contemporary race. Porsche says track insights feed production development, so the tribute shows racing's role in shaping road cars.
Terms in This Story
- customer racing
- A motorsport program where a manufacturer offers race-ready cars to private teams and drivers rather than fielding only a factory team.
- homologated
- Officially approved as meeting the technical rules of a racing series, allowing the car to compete.
- boxer engine
- A flat engine layout with cylinders lying horizontally in two banks, which helps lower the car's center of gravity.
- livery
- The paint scheme and graphic design applied to a race car, often carrying branding or commemorative elements.
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