Scuderia Cameron Glickenhaus and its cowboy-hatted financier and crew boss Jim Glickenhaus have confirmed that the crew has no intention of submitting an entry to the FIA World Endurance Championship for the 2024 season. Despite having competed within the Hypercar class since its inception in 2021, ending down the order to an growing variety of factory-backed efforts mixed with a failure to search out severe sponsorship conspired to place the crew out to pasture. The deadline for a bid to race subsequent 12 months is November twentieth, however Jim says he doesn’t want to attend that lengthy, confirming to Motorsport in the present day.
“Finding the necessary sponsorship isn’t realistic,” he stated. “No, we won’t be entering—it doesn’t make sense for us.” Glickenhaus asserted.
“To be competitive we’d need to do an evo version of the car and to run two of them. That’s not viable for a privateer: the only way we could do it would be with sponsorship or if a customer wanted to run a program with our car.”
“We have a certain capacity [to build road cars] and we have sales up to that amount, but even if we could build more, racing in the WEC isn’t going to help us sell them. For our little company competing in the WEC just doesn’t make sense.”
Glickenhaus hopes to deal with constructing his road-going machines sooner or later, together with its 003 and 004 sports activities vehicles, and the fashionable Baja Boot. It appears Jim has soured on racing as of late, as at one level the crew was engaged on homologating a GT3 automobile, working the 004 on the ‘Ring, racing in Baja, and running the WEC concurrently. As of this moment none of these projects are still alive, though he does hint that a return to the Nürburgring 24 is going to come in the next few years.
When the FIA WEC changed over to Hypercar rules, Glickenhaus was the only team to compete against Toyota and a grandfathered-in Alpine LMP1. The car didn’t conform to the letter of the rulebook, because it by no means included a hybrid drive system. As a consequence the crew tried to get the FIA to reign within the pace of the Toyotas, and for essentially the most half the lobbying labored. In 2022 the crew was in competition for the victory at Monza when a turbocharger failure scuppered that chance (beneath).
Unfortunately for the crew, it was by no means fairly as properly funded because the competing manufacturing facility groups. The crew arrived late to the present, not having its automobile prepared for Spa-Francorchamps in 2021. Further funding points pushed the crew to skip out on a number of rounds of the championship over time, failing to attend the Bahrain double-header in 2021, and the Bahrain and Fuji rounds in 2022 and ’23.
It’ll be good to see the crew competing once more in a decrease formulation the place the cash outlay isn’t fairly so heavy. Maybe the SCG 004 can discover a place in GT3 if they’ll get it homologated, or within the SPX class on the N24 once more. At one level in 2022 Glickenhaus stated he’d prefer to see the 004 run in GT3 at Le Mans. I might additionally prefer to see this.
Source: jalopnik.com