The Glickenhaus SCG 007 Will Take On The Le Mans Hypercar Class
Along with some big names of the car world, the LMP1-replacing ‘hypercar class’ of the FIA World Endurance Championship will also include some more specialist entries.
One of them will be Scuderia Cameron Glickenhaus, maker of racing cars and ultra-low volume supercars. The outfit - formed and owned by filmmaker turned automotive entrepreneur James Glickenhaus - has just released a new set of renders depicting the car it’ll be fielding in the 2020 - 2021 WEC season.
We still don’t know a whole lot about its technical specification, other than the engine, which will be a 3.0-litre twin-turbo V6. There’s no word on the structure of the car, the suspension, or whether it’ll be packing hybrid system, which is allowed under the new rules but not mandated. Most of us can probably agree that it looks rather handsome.
When releasing another render of the car last year, Glickenhaus said that it would be only be building two racers - one for itself, and one customer car. There will also be a run of 25 road cars costing $1 million each.
Scuderia Cameron Glickenhaus will be racing against competition variants of the Aston Martin Valkyrie and the Toyota GR Super Sport. LMP1 privateer ByKolles has said it will enter with a new version of its Enso prototype racer, and with 15 different manufacturers said to have attended talks about the regulations with the Automobile Club de l’Ouest, more challengers could be coming out of the woodwork soon.
Growing up on a diet of World Rally Championship highlights and lengthy Gran Turismo 2 sessions, a life in cars was as good as inevitable for Matt.
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I need new pants
Looks like a made up car from a mobile racing game. It looks cool, but that’s what comes to mind
Burnout 3 for me
Is it just me or this has a terrifically good late 90’s/early 2000’s vibe to it?
It’s essentially a brand new f50 imo!
It reminds me of the late 90’s GT1 era and I love it
It’s like a P4/5 competzione, 917LH and Alfa TZ3 Zagato had a baby! Retro racecar looks with modern racecar performance? Yes please!
That rear wing looks awesome - reminds me a lot of the F40 and F50. I must say this hypercar class sounds absolutely amazing and after a few years of basically ignoring WEC it might be time I watch it
looks like a modern f40. good
Oh wow this is gonna make things interesting in the LMP1-Hyper division!
This needs to be an independent racing series, not only Le Mans!!!! I would watch that all the time.
Wec is its own series?
So… spa, Nürburgring, Sebring, silverstone… the entire rest of the WEC calendar….
I should ask about the Alfa Romeo rims