McLaren in Hypercar from 2025?

McLaren will it be added to the list of prestigious brands joining the queen category ofEndurance ? In any case, this is the echo that has recently reached our ears. 

Zak Brown has never hidden his desire to see the British manufacturer make its place in the Endurance world, especially since the announcement of the new Hypercar regulations and the convergence with theIMSA. And the presence of the Managing Director of McLaren Racing in Bahrain on the occasion of the final round of the WEC 2022, while the São Paulo Grand Prix of Formula 1 took place during the same weekend in Brazil, did not go unnoticed. Of course, the world of Endurance is not completely unknown to Zak Brown since the American is the co-founder of the United Autosports team, along with Richard Dean.

With United Autosports?

The American-British structure is well known for its successes in the WEC and in ELMS in addition to preparing and managing historic racing cars. It was in a United Autosports flocked suit that the Californian appeared in Austin, on the sidelines of the United States F1 Grand Prix, to drive an old McLaren. However, his presence in Bahrain did not seem only intended to be a simple courtesy visit to his team, but also to discuss at greater length with the leaders of the WEC and the FIA ​​on a possible involvement in Hypercar in the years to come.

However, United Autosports, despite all its know-how in long-distance races, has still not found the right fit for a Hypercar customer in 2023 or 2024 while Richard Dean has always expressed the wish to move up the ladder. superior. Strange then that all the other top teams in LM P2 (a category whose presence in the World Championship is not assured in the future) ont déjà trouvé un constructeur avec qui s’associer : WRT avec BMW, Jota avec Porsche, Prema avec Lamborghini (via Iron Lynx)… Si une association avec Porsche fut un temps évoquée, il semblerait surtout que l’écurie de Garforth (Angleterre) se réserve pour la future arrivée de McLaren, qui, d’après ce que nous avons appris, pourrait donc se produire en 2025, bien que rien ne soit encore confirmé.

After Formula 1, theIndyCar or the Formula E, McLaren would therefore attack the premier category of Endurance.

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