zzdcar
Home
/
Reviews
/
Racing
/
Glickenhaus Has A Plan For A Third Hypercar At Le Mans But The Car Doesn't Exist Yet
Glickenhaus Has A Plan For A Third Hypercar At Le Mans But The Car Doesn't Exist Yet-December 2024
2024-02-19 EST 22:10:52

Image for article titled Glickenhaus Has A Plan For A Third Hypercar At Le Mans But The Car Doesn't Exist Yet

The Scuderia Cameron Glickenhaus appears to be up to their eyeballs in work these days. The tiny boutique manufacturer is still developing its Le Mans Hypercar 007, as well as the road-going version, the GT3-legal 004 in street, clubsport, and competition versions, the off-road racing ‘Boot’ in two-door, four-door, and hydrogen-powered variants, and the 008, which is a Boot with an 004 body stuck on top. That’s somehow three different race cars in three different disciplines, plus six different street-homologated variants. No other sports car company is dumb enough to even try that.

So when the tiny little shop from Sleepy Hollow, New York says it is going to whip up a third LMH to race at Le Mans in three months, you can certainly color me a skeptic. According to team founder Jim Glickenhaus, he’s been in contact with an existing sportscar team interested in running an additional 007 Hypercar on June 11th in France, bringing the total to three against just two Toyotas and one old-school Alpine.

As it happened, when the entry list was re-opened for Le Mans on Monday , Jim tweeted that he’d be interested in running a third entry (below).

Glickenhaus later told Motorsport.com about what transpired afterward. “They are people I know and they contacted me after we did that tweet,” said Glickenhaus. “I’m not saying that we have a deal, though it is agreed in principle, or even if the ACO will accept another car from us, but we are working hard on this. I think we have a chance of putting it together.

Glickenhaus and the unnamed team have until 3pm Central European Time on Wednesday to complete their entry procedure in order to even hope the entry is accepted. Then the real work begins.

“We don’t have three cars at the moment, but we can make it happen it by working 24/7 for three months,” Jim admitted.

Glickenhaus already contracts with Joest Racing to run the race operations, so it’s not exactly beyond their purview to field three cars at Le Mans. That said, it’s a monumental task to slam together a technologically advanced car like a Le Mans Hypercar in the space of three months and hope to have it ready to race. Especially considering Glickenhaus is supposed to be running the full WEC season this year, which means the 1000 Miles of Sebring and the 6 Hours of Spa between now and June. Admittedly, those races will only be run with a single 007, so the rest of the team could be focused on prepping the second and building the third for the big race in June.

Is it possible? Who knows, but I honestly hope it happens, because , the top class is going to need all the help it can get.

Comments
Welcome to zzdcar comments! Please keep conversations courteous and on-topic. To fosterproductive and respectful conversations, you may see comments from our Community Managers.
Sign up to post
Sort by
Show More Comments
Racing
Bringing 'Ghost Cars' Out Of Video Games And Into Actual Driving
Bringing 'Ghost Cars' Out Of Video Games And Into Actual Driving
Anyone who's ever played a sim racer, or even Mario Kart, has encountered a "ghost" car: a vehicle that shows your fastest lap in real-time on track with you. You can see immediately where you're losing time whenever the ghost car passes you. wants to adapt this tech for your...
Dec 13, 2025
Watch Ken Block Smack The Wall In The First Turn Of Rally Spain
Watch Ken Block Smack The Wall In The First Turn Of Rally Spain
Ken Block, once again the only American in this round of the World Rally Championship, quickly proves how tough the Fiesta is by whacking into the very first turn of the rally. The 8-Bit Fiesta keeps going anyway. . "Built Ford Tough" is the truth, yo. All forcible adjustments to...
Dec 13, 2025
Ask Endurance Drivers Ryan Dalziel And Johannes van Overbeek Anything
Ask Endurance Drivers Ryan Dalziel And Johannes van Overbeek Anything
Extreme Speed Motorsports is the lone American team heading to the FIA World Endurance Championship's 6 Hours of Shanghai next week, and we've got drivers Ryan Dalziel and Johannes van Overbeek here to answer your questions! Although Extreme Speed started racing in the TUDOR United SportsCar Championship this year, they've...
Dec 13, 2025
Caterham F1 Team Staff Locked Out Of Own Office
Caterham F1 Team Staff Locked Out Of Own Office
Another wrench was thrown into Caterham's plans to make the United States Grand Prix next week: Caterham's staff has been of the team's headquarters in Leafield, England. That Caterham is in deep financial caca is no surprise. They've had certain assets , inexplicably during the middle of a race, and...
Dec 13, 2025
He Lived.
He Lived.
It's unclear exactly how many times Jerry Yeoman's car rolled after punching through the barrier at this drag strip. A conservative estimate puts it at a dozen. The real shock is not the crash, it's that Yoeman lived. As explains, the video was only posted with permission from Yoeman, who...
Dec 13, 2025
The Texas Mile Is A Magical Wonderland Of Insane Land Speed Builds
The Texas Mile Is A Magical Wonderland Of Insane Land Speed Builds
For any enthusiast who just appreciates a good build for speed—raw speed über alles—the Texas Mile is like a marvelous gallery dedicated to the art of being awesome. It's also , so if you're neat Beeville, Texas, you should go. Everywhere you turn at the Texas Mile, there are cars...
Dec 13, 2025
Copyright 2023-2025 - www.zzdcar.com All Rights Reserved