The US entrant has revealed {that a} determination continues to be pending on its participation within the Fuji and Bahrain races in September and November respectively with its solo full-season Glickenhaus-Pipo 007 Le Mans Hypercar.
It hangs on the Glickenhaus Racing staff discovering sponsorship to maneuver ahead with its programme, in line with staff founder Jim Glickenhaus.
“We’ve made no determination; we will’t say we will likely be at Fuji and Bahrain as a result of we’re nonetheless engaged on it,” he instructed Autosport.
“What must occur is that we get a critical sponsor that enables us to do the remainder of this yr and transfer into 2024, in addition to to develop an evo model of the automotive in order that we will stay aggressive.
“We’re near doing that, however we’ll both get the backing we’d like or we gained’t.
“I believe now we have an enormous potential {that a} sponsor would be capable of exploit.“
Glickenhaus dropped out of the 2022 WEC this time last year, which adopted its best efficiency since becoming a member of the collection in 2021 when it misplaced a transparent probability of profitable at Monza courtesy of a turbocharger failure.
It didn’t subsequently commit to returning for this year until December.
#708 Glickenhaus Racing Glickenhaus 007: Romain Dumas, Olivier Pla, Nathanael Berthon
Picture by: Eric Le Galliot
Glickenhaus insisted that lacking the ultimate two races once more wouldn’t prejudice the staff’s possibilities of gaining a WEC entry subsequent season.
“We stay on good phrases with the WEC and now we have saved them knowledgeable,” he mentioned.
“They’ve been very supportive of our efforts.”
A choice on the participation of Glickenhaus within the final two races could possibly be imminent.
The freight leaves for the Fuji 6 Hours on 10 September by sea subsequent Wednesday.
Glickenhaus reiterated his stance that competing within the WEC presents much less worth to his fledgling street automotive marque, Scuderia Cameron Glickenhaus, than racing within the Nurburgring 24 Hours and the Baja 1000 with the road variations of its SCG004C GT automotive and Boot off-roader.
It stays too early to speak about drivers for Fuji and Bahrain ought to the staff journey to Asia for the final leg of the WEC, defined Glickenhaus.
He careworn that the Ryan Briscoe stays a part of the staff regardless that he was changed by Nathanael Berthon for final weekend’s Monza 6 Hours.
Briscoe will likely be on responsibility for Glickenhaus at this weekend’s Goodwood Competition of Pace the place he’ll drive the 007 owned by HK Motorcars that raced as #709 on the Le Mans 24 Hours.
Berthon got here into the line-up of #708 alongside Romain Dumas and Olivier Pla at Monza after making his debut with the staff within the second automotive at Le Mans final month.