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#709 Glickenhaus Racing Glickenhaus 007 LMH Hypercar, Ryan Briscoe, Richard Westbrook, Romain Dumas
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Why Glickenhaus should be taken seriously on its Le Mans bow

Many were quick to dismiss Glickenhaus when the boutique American sportscar firm's entry into the top class of the Le Mans 24 Hours was announced. It's all-new LMH racer, powered by an engine built by a rally specialist, goes in as the underdog against Toyota but the mathematical odds suggest that it has more than just a faint hope of success

Jim Glickenhaus doesn’t mind being called a privateer. In fact, he revels in that description and his underdog status. Yes, the American is a car manufacturer, or at least is well on the way to becoming a fully fledged one, but he’s in the tradition of a line of independents to take on the challenge of the Le Mans 24 Hours.

The difference between his organisation and so many of the specialist builders that preceded him – think de Cadenet, WM and Panoz – is he’s pitching up with a genuine chance of victory. That’s what he thinks, and that’s what the new Le Mans Hypercar regulations were conceived to allow.

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