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Racecar Engineering|August 2020
The Glickenhaus 007C Hypercar has not yet been developed, but the American has a customer for his project and two versions of the now V8-powered car will be on the grid at Le Mans
ANDREW COTTON
Sales pitch

Two Glickenhaus 007C LMPHypercars will line up on the grid for the Le Mans 24 hours in 2021 after the US team completed the sale of a chassis to a customer, and recently confirmed it was in negotiation to sell a third chassis in time for the big race next year.

The identity of the customer team has yet to be revealed, but a press release issued early in June confirmed there would be a two-car factory team at Sebring, Spa and Le Mans.

Jim Glickenhaus, who has driven his company’s name forward in racing circles in GT3 racing (see Racecar Engineering V30N6) announced in 2018 he would prepare a Hypercar for the new generation Le Mans rules, originally due this year, but which have been delayed until March 2021.

The unexpected delay to the regulations actually suited the Glickenhaus team, which was always unlikely to be ready before the first race of the season at Silverstone, originally planned for September this year.

According to a company press release, the engineering of the chassis is now complete, the wind tunnel testing programme has started and the team has “already met several of our engineering targets.” Similarly, the engine from Pipo Moteurs in France is said to be almost ready for its first dyno tests.

Clear goal

The opportunity to go to Le Mans and win it overall was too tempting for Glickenhaus to pass up, and in 2018 the team announced it would build a Hypercar to attempt just that. Yet when it announced it was going up against Toyota and, at the time Aston Martin, many wrote it off as a dream that would never deliver. The computer renders that were released of an outstandingly pretty car didn’t help. He would simply not have the budget to race against a factory program.

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