2022 Porsche 911 GT2 RS Clubsport 25 "Manthey Racing" — #19 of 30

Some cars are rare because few were built. This one is rare because of what it represents. The 911 GT2 RS Clubsport 25 was Porsche's tribute to twenty-five years of its partnership with Manthey Racing, the team that has turned the Nürburgring Nordschleife into something closer to home ground than a racetrack. Thirty examples were built worldwide, no more. This is #19, delivered new and never entered in a single competition — 443 kilometers on its digital dash, all of it delivery and testing mileage, the car otherwise as it left the factory.c

The relationship being celebrated is not a marketing footnote. Olaf Manthey, a 1990 Porsche Carrera Cup champion, founded the team bearing his name in 1996 and built it into Porsche's de facto skunkworks for endurance racing at the 'Ring. Manthey-Racing has taken seven overall wins at the Nürburgring 24 Hours, and in 2021 a 911 GT2 RS fitted with the team's Manthey Performance Kit lowered the Nordschleife production-car lap record to 6:43.300. Porsche formalized the relationship in December 2013, acquiring a 51 percent stake in the team. The Clubsport 25 was the result of that partnership finally being handed a blank sheet.

Mechanically, it starts where the standard GT2 RS Clubsport starts: a 3.8-litre twin-turbocharged flat-six making 700 PS (691 hp), sent through a seven-speed PDK to the rear wheels alone, in a car that weighs in the neighborhood of 1,390 kg. It is a car built exclusively for the track, and everything about its character reflects that — immediate throttle response tuned for a dual-clutch gearbox rather than a road-going compromise, and a chassis with nothing to manage beyond putting power down cleanly, lap after lap. 

What Manthey added was architectural, not cosmetic. The radiator was relocated centrally, a layout borrowed directly from the 911 GT3 R — "Grello" — that improves thermal consistency and shields the front brakes rather than exposing them at the fenders. Grant Larson, the Style Porsche designer behind the 911 RSR, the modern GT3 R, and the 935, applied Grello's green-and-yellow livery not as decoration but as a way of marking the car's functional surfaces — vents, ducts, aerodynamic edges. The carbon fiber hood carries twin extraction vents around a center divider that route heat up and over the roofline, plus a NACA duct feeding the cockpit. The front bumper adds double flics for extra front-axle downforce. Underneath, the suspension and steering are sourced from the 991-generation 935, riding on 18-inch center-lock wheels. The rear wing rides on swan-neck brackets for clean airflow beneath it, and the diffuser was reworked around a new exhaust routing. The four-stripe headlight signature traces back to the Le Mans-winning 911 RSR.

The hood is entirely new carbon fiber, wearing twin extraction vents separated by a center divider that channel heat from the engine bay up and over the roofline to the rear wing — exactly as on the GT3 R. The front bumper carries Grello-inspired double flicks that add front axle downforce. The deep aerodynamic door sills are a deliberate nod to the original 935 from 1976. The rear wing operates on swan-neck support brackets for uninterrupted lower surface airflow, flanked by aerodynamically enhanced side plates. The diffuser was optimized by Manthey specifically to accommodate the redesigned exhaust system and its signature tailpipes. This car doesn't just look like a race car — it reasons like one.

Underneath, the suspension and steering rack come from the 2019 935 — a car that itself was a limited-edition love letter to Porsche's racing history — along with the 18-inch center-lock BBS wheels that give the Clubsport 25 a substantially wider track than the standard GT2 RS Clubsport. The racing headlights carry four-stripe DRLs traced directly back to the Le Mans-winning 911 RSR. A dash-mounted plaque reads "25 Jahre Manthey-Racing."

Inside, the car is the standard GT2 RS Clubsport's FIA-compliant safety cell: a welded-in roll cage, a Recaro racing bucket seat, a six-point harness, and an electronically triggered fire suppression system. The digital instrument display is a Cosworth ICD unit with an integrated data logger — the same display currently reading 443 km. A dash-mounted plaque marks the car as one of the anniversary edition, reading "25 Jahre Manthey-Racing."

The car is presently held in a private collection in London, England, under a maintenance program that spares no expense across the collection's holdings — the kind of stewardship that keeps a car exactly as it was the day it arrived rather than merely functional. It has never turned a competitive lap.

Key Features

• Chassis #19 of only 30 built worldwide, commemorating 25 years of Porsche and Manthey Racing
• 3.8L twin-turbo flat-six, 700 PS (691 hp), 7-speed PDK, rear-wheel drive
• Central-radiator architecture and aerodynamic package derived from the 911 GT3 R "Grello" and 935
• Design by Grant Larson (Style Porsche), livery and bodywork tracing directly to Manthey's Nürburgring race cars
• FIA-spec welded roll cage, Recaro racing seat, six-point harness, Cosworth ICD data logger
• 443 km from new — delivery and testing mileage only, never raced
• Maintained under a private London collection's no-expense-spared care program