Scuderia Cameron Glickenhaus is gearing up for Le Mans and has fired up the engine of its Hypercar racer for the first time.
The car, dubbed the SCG 007, features a 3.5-liter twin-turbocharged V8 produced by French engine specialist Pipo Moteurs. It features a pair of heads derived from the engines used by World Rally Championship cars and includes an “artificial intelligence throttle” that keeps the turbochargers spooled regardless of throttle input, The Drive reports.
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The hypercar and its powertrain are currently being put together in Italy and in the start-up video, the flat-plane crank V8 sounds particularly brutish. The racing team plans to make its first shakedown test with the car at Autodromo Vallelunga in a few weeks.
Scuderia Cameron Glickenhaus will enter the new flagship class of endurance racing with two cars, numbered 708 and 709. Racing for the team will be Richard Westbrook, endurance champion Romain Dumas, Franck Mailleux, Olivier Pla, Pipo Derani, Ryan Briscoe, and Rebellion Racing driver Gustavo Menezes.
The racing outfit will be competing alongside Toyota, Alpine and ByKolles Racing in this year’s championship, with Peugeot joining them in 2022. Cars competing in the Le Mans Hypercar class are capped at 670 hp. Toyota opted to use a 3.5-liter twin-turbo V6 alongside a front-axle hybrid system, while ByKolles Racing will use a naturally aspirated V8 for its race car and Alpine will run a rebadged Rebellion R13 LMP1 car in the series.