Crew founder Jim Glickenhaus has revealed to Autosport that he doesn’t intend to file an entry for subsequent yr’s championship forward of the deadline on 20 November.
The information follows the workforce’s resolution to again skip the Asian leg of the WEC made up of Fuji in September and Bahrain in November with the Glickenhaus-Pipo 007 entered for the complete season.
Glickenhaus urged after the workforce was absent from the Fuji entry listing that it will solely proceed within the sequence if sponsorship was discovered for a 2024 marketing campaign.
Discovering the mandatory sponsorship isn’t sensible, as Glickenhaus advised Autosport: “No, we received’t be coming into – it doesn’t make sense for us.
“To be aggressive we’d must do an evo model of the automotive and to run two of them.
“That’s not viable for a privateer: the one approach we might do it will be with sponsorship or if a buyer wished to run a programme with our automotive.”
He additionally identified that the precedence for his Scuderia Cameron Glickenhaus firm was now making road-going autos, together with the 004 sportscar based mostly on its Nurburgring 24 Hours racer.
“We have now a sure capability and we’ve got gross sales as much as that quantity, however even when we might construct extra, racing within the WEC isn’t going to assist us promote them.
“For our little firm competing within the WEC simply doesn’t make sense.”
#708 Glickenhaus Racing Glickenhaus 007: Romain Dumas, Olivier Pla, Nathanael Berthon
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A return to the German enduro on the Nurburgring-Nordschleife is on the playing cards in some unspecified time in the future with the SCG 004C that final contested the race within the SP-X class in 2022, Glickenhaus burdened.
“We’ll return to the ‘Ring at some point, as a result of we might be selling what we promote,” he stated.
Glickenhaus stated he believes the workforce is retiring from the WEC with an enviable file, which features a podium at Le Mans in 2022.
“We have been a reliable effort and we did simply nice for a privateer,” he stated.
“We received on the rostrum in 2022 and this yr we beat the likes of Porsche and Peugeot [by finishing sixth and seventh] — it actually doesn’t get any higher than that.
“We have been an necessary a part of the championship once they wanted us.”
The Glickenhaus 007 developed by Podium Superior Applied sciences in Italy started racing in WEC from the second spherical of the championship at Portimao within the first season of the Hypercar period in 2021.
It went on to complete fourth at Le Mans that yr after an in depth battle with the Alpine A480 grandfathered LMP1.
The next yr the 007 pushed by Richard Westbrook, Ryan Briscoe and Franck Mailleux completed better of the remaining behind the Toyotas on the head of Glickenhaus 3-4 consequence.
Glickenhaus notched up an extra three podiums with the 007 and two pole positions throughout its three seasons in WEC, and was trying good for victory at Monza final yr earlier than a turbo failure intervened.