McLaren reveal further delay to WEC decision

A decision about a World Endurance Championship entry by McLaren has been pushed back further, in the latest update from Zak Brown.

The McLaren Racing CEO spoke a couple of times on the matter last year, latterly at the Abu Dhabi Grand Prix where he indicated a decision would be taken in the first quarter of 2022.

However, we are now approaching the end of the year’s second quarter and still there has been no confirmation about whether McLaren will target the WEC.

Instead, the Woking operation stuck closer to the outlined timeframe in committing to Formula E, a decision that had also been given a Q1 date, and it was announced in mid-May that McLaren will take over the Mercedes team in that series.

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We will have to wait longer, though, to find out if McLaren will go ahead with any WEC plans, which Brown said last year was “something we are looking at…but it has to be the right time, right place and right resources.”

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The new Hypercar class of the WEC currently features Toyota, Alpine and Glickenhaus, while Peugeot, Audi, Ferrari and Porsche are set to join in the future.

“We still haven’t made a decision on the World Endurance Championship,” Brown told reporters.

“We are a