McLaren is close to making a decision on a potential entry to the FIA 🌊World Endurance Championship’s Hypeꦉrcar class in 2021.

WEC has been on McLaren’s radar as part of an expansion of its rꦕacing plans, which stepped up earlier this month when it announced a return to IndyCar for 2020, linking up with Schmidt Peterson Motorsports.

Of♈ficials from McLaren were part of the workin💖g groups that helped form the new Hypercar regulations that will come into play for the 2020-21 WEC season, although its own entry would not be until the start of ’21-22.

Aske൲d by wuqian0821.com for an update on McLaren’s WEC considerations, CEO Zak Brown s꧟aid a decision was close to being made upon completion of its review.

“We ꦫdo need to make a decision soon for the 2022 season. Our revi♐ew is almost complete,” Brown said.

“We r𝐆emain a fan of WEC and Le Mans, but it’s all about timing and does it fit in wiꦗth our overall business objectives, what we’ve got going on in Automotive.

“Automotive would be a big part of going into WEC, and ཧon that we haven’t come to any final conclusions yet, but we’re going to need to shortly.”

McLaren has already confirmed that any entry to the♏ Hypercar category would come with a brand-new road car, ✤explaining the need for close collaboration with its Automotive arm.

Toyota and Aston Martin are th❀e only two manufacturers to have committed to entering the new class from 2021, which will target close competition through a Balance of Performance system.

Brown gave his support to this move, saying BoP was critical to ensuring the class was viable for its entrants.

“I think it’s t⛎he only way to potentially contain tꩲhe costs,” Brown said.

“It works really well in GTE, even though it becomes very political. If you statistically look at GTE, theꦡy do a good job with it. The team that wins always ✱had the unfair advantage, and the team that loses didn’t have the right Balance of Performance, but it seems to cycle through.

“I think withou🐭t Balance of Performance, the budget would be unobtainable."