Glickenhaus to enter one automobile for Portimao WEC jog
The American boutique manufacturer will at closing give its 007 LMH form its jog bow within the 8 Hours of Portimao on June 12-13 after skipping the hole spherical of the WEC season at Spa.
Nonetheless, in spite of getting lodged two elephantine-season entries, Glickenhaus will handiest be working a single automobile in Portugal sooner than returning to elephantine strength for the next WEC jog at Monza in July.
That entry shall be a no longer too prolonged within the past built-up 2d chassis, while the fashioned automobile that has passed via an extensive take a look at programme shall be rebuilt following a planned 30-hour take a look at in Aragon later this month.
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It method there are negate to be four autos within the tip Hypercar class at Portimao, with the lone Glickenhaus entry becoming a member of two Toyota GR010 Hybrids and a single Alpine A480 grandfathered LMP1, sooner than the category is boosted to 5 autos for Monza and the Le Mans 24 Hours in August.
“We had been continuously going to accept as true with a two-automobile crew, but it surely makes it more uncomplicated to bag closer to the [performance] window need to you are going to accept as true with a current automobile [for the homologation tests],” Glickenhaus urged Motorsport.com. “So now we’re in a scenario the put we truly feel dazzling about the Hypercar.
“We accept as true with a 30-hour take a look at in Aragon planned in two weeks which is ready to make certain that we do no longer desire any mechanical points with the automobile, but that does no longer affect our homologation. We are going to accept as true with each and each autos in Aragon because we can shake down the present automobile so it shall be ready to jog in Portimao.
“At Portimao we can jog one automobile, which is ready to be the present automobile, and then we can totally rebuild the first one within the mould of the present one.
“We are going to pick out the ‘dim automobile’, the automobile now we had been checking out, and bring it to the Nurburgring 24 Hours and we’ll bag the installation lap for the launch of the jog, such as the [electric] VW automobile, the ID.R. Then it will also hump to Goodwood for the Festival of Trail.
“Nonetheless it shall be ready to jog at Monza, and we’ll accept as true with two autos at Monza and two autos at Le Mans.”
Glickenhaus added that he’s no longer committed to coming into a automobile in either of the two events following Le Mans on the WEC agenda at Fuji and Bahrain.
“I address racing, but I’m no longer excellent a racer, I accept as true with a company that’s making motorway-appropriate autos,” he said. “We’re looking out to bag that in Europe as successfully. Nonetheless now we must exhaust money to sell autos. I bag no longer sell any autos in Japan and I bag no longer sell any autos within the Heart East.”