Time moves fast at Donkervoot. It was only November that the final F22 was revealed, but already that’s old news: P24 RS is the new Donkervoort model, the name now confirmed ahead of a debut later in 2025. Though described as sister models, the P24 RS promises to be substantially different to the old ‘22, not least as it will go without Audi five-cylinder power this time around. Nevertheless, it’s suggested that the new car will ‘push the F22’s performance even further.’
‘RS’ is, unsurprisingly, the most significant part of the new name. P24 follows the naming convention of F22, which was named after Denis Donkervoort’s first daughter, Filippa, born in 2022; this new car pays homage to last year’s new addition Phébe. But RS has only been seen twice before, both on Donkervoort’s lap record-breaking cars. The D8 RS of 2004 ‘shattered Porsche’s dominance at the Nurburgring’, with a 7:18, 10 seconds ahead of a Carrera GT; the team returned a couple of years later to drop the time below 7:15, ‘firmly establishing Donkervoort among the world’s elite performance marques’. The 2016 GTO-RS had claimed a Bilsterberg production record with 1:46.12.
So it’s going to be fast, this new P24. The fact that Donkervoort is hinting so strongly in its early material would suggest they’re pretty confident: ‘the RS may well be destined for record-breaking glory once again.’ Denis Donkervoort stresses the point again in the video; an RS is made once a decade, basically, and the Dutch company throws everything at them. But if they want to beat Porsche on the Nordschleife this time around, they’ll need to go faster than the 6:38.835 set by Lars Kern in a Manthey’d GT2 RS, which would be no mean feat.
There’s little else announced for now, though we’ll know plenty about the P24 RS before its reveal later in 2025. Donkervoort will create ‘Living the Drive’, a YouTube series deep-diving on the engineering, design and development of nothing less than the company’s ‘most ambitious project to date.’ Which definitely sounds worth watching; expect the first very soon.