Glick bait
The 007C has already shown promising form, beating the Vallelunga outright track record
Jim Glickenhaus has taken the next step in his commitment to endurance racing and signed up to take a Hypercar to this year’s Le Mans 24 Hours, and compete in rounds of the FIA World Endurance Championship.
His 007C, a ground-up design that features a twin turbo V8 engine from Pipo Moteurs and a chassis from Podium Advanced Technologies, has completed its first track running and passed its crash tests in advance of the start of the FIA WEC.
However, the car is not yet finally homologated as, with the Covid pandemic continuing to cause havoc in Europe and to European racing schedules, and with a five-year fixed homologation by regulation in the WEC, the American is in no hurry to finalise the specification.
‘There is not much point in doing so until we know when we will go racing,’ says Glickenhaus. ‘The car is ready, but we are not going to rush to homologate it for a spectator-less race.’
The first round of the WEC, scheduled for Spa in May, is confirmed to take place behind closed doors, and with Portimao and Monza the second and third races in June and July, ahead of Le Mans in August, the team remains sceptical
