Champion Motorsport’s Porsche 911 GT2 RS Clubsport Headed to Pikes Peak

Champion Motorsport makes its long-awaited return to racing at Pikes Peak with this familiar-looking 911 GT2 RS Clubsport.

Pompano Beach, Florida-based Champion Motorsport has been competing in various forms of motorsport for years now, using its same familiar multi-hued livery for decades. However, Champion hasn’t competed in a race since 2008, when it won its third straight American Le Mans Series championship with an Audi R10. Now, the Porsche parts maker, seller, and dealer has applied its familiar scheme, albeit modernized by artist Dave Schnorr, to a highly modified Porsche 911 GT2 RS Clubsport destined for the 2021 Pikes Peak International Hill Climb, which takes place June 27.

The 911 GT2 RS Clubsport will compete in the Time Attack 1 class with a rather famous name behind the wheel – Le Mans winner Romain Dumas, who also happened to set a record at Pikes Peak back in 2018 piloting Volkswagen’s ID.R. Notably, this attempt will mark the first time Champion Porsche has participated in a racing event since the 2008 American Le Mans Series.

It certainly picked a special machine to come out of retirement with, as the 911 GT2 RS Clubsport is a fortified version of Porsche’s already impressive GT2 RS. One of 200 produced, this racing 911 comes from the factory with a host of modifications including new aero bits, loads of weight-shaving carbon fiber, and bigger brakes, along with the same twin-turbo 3.8-liter flat-six as the road-going version that churns out 700 horsepower and 553 pound-feet of torque.

To that solid base, Champion has added not only its legendary livery but also a longer front splitter, bigger side skirts, front bumper canards, rear-wheel well canards, a massive rear diffuser, and equally giant rear wing, all designed to keep the car glued to the roads of the highest summit of the southern Front Range of the Rocky Mountains.

Dumas has already been testing the GT2 RS Clubsport at the 12.42-mile course, where Champion last competed a dozen years ago. Though Dumas obviously won’t challenge his own record behind the wheel of the Porsche, which he still holds, history is certainly on his side. Last year, David Donner piloted another GT2 RS Clubsport up the mountain in 9:36.559, which was just slightly behind the winning time of 9:35.490.

Photos: Porsche

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