Motorsport Week
  • Formula 1
    • 2023 Formula 1 Calendar
    • 2023 Formula 1 Team/Driver Line-Up
    • 2023 Formula 1 Driver Penalty Points
    • 2022 Session Results
    • 2022 Championship Standings
  • Formula E
    • 2022/23 Formula E Standings
    • 2022/23 Formula E Calendar
    • 2022/23 Formula E Team/Driver Line-up
  • IndyCar
    • 2023 IndyCar Calendar
    • 2023 IndyCar Driver Line-Up
    • 2022 Championship Standings
  • WRC
    • 2023 WRC Calendar
    • 2023 WRC Standings
    • 2023 WRC Driver Line-up
  • MotoGP
    • 2023 MotoGP Calendar
    • 2023 MotoGP Team/Rider Line-Up
    • 2022 Championship Standings
  • WEC
    • 2023 WEC Calendar
    • 2023 WEC Hypercar Team/Driver Line-up
  • More
    • IMSA
      • 2023 IMSA GTP Team/Driver Line-up
      • 2023 IMSA Calendar
    • Formula 2
      • 2023 Formula 2 Race Calendar
      • 2023 Formula 2 Driver Line-up
    • Formula 3
      • 2023 Formula 3 Race Calendar
      • 2023 Formula 3 Driver Line-up
    • DTM
    • WSeries
    • Technical Insight
    • Galleries
    • About/Contact
    • Privacy Policy
LIVE
No Result
View All Result
  • Formula 1
    • 2023 Formula 1 Calendar
    • 2023 Formula 1 Team/Driver Line-Up
    • 2023 Formula 1 Driver Penalty Points
    • 2022 Session Results
    • 2022 Championship Standings
  • Formula E
    • 2022/23 Formula E Standings
    • 2022/23 Formula E Calendar
    • 2022/23 Formula E Team/Driver Line-up
  • IndyCar
    • 2023 IndyCar Calendar
    • 2023 IndyCar Driver Line-Up
    • 2022 Championship Standings
  • WRC
    • 2023 WRC Calendar
    • 2023 WRC Standings
    • 2023 WRC Driver Line-up
  • MotoGP
    • 2023 MotoGP Calendar
    • 2023 MotoGP Team/Rider Line-Up
    • 2022 Championship Standings
  • WEC
    • 2023 WEC Calendar
    • 2023 WEC Hypercar Team/Driver Line-up
  • More
    • IMSA
      • 2023 IMSA GTP Team/Driver Line-up
      • 2023 IMSA Calendar
    • Formula 2
      • 2023 Formula 2 Race Calendar
      • 2023 Formula 2 Driver Line-up
    • Formula 3
      • 2023 Formula 3 Race Calendar
      • 2023 Formula 3 Driver Line-up
    • DTM
    • WSeries
    • Technical Insight
    • Galleries
    • About/Contact
    • Privacy Policy
No Result
View All Result
Motorsport Week
Home Sportscars WEC

Buemi staying ‘humble and realistic’ about Glickenhaus debut potential

by Davey Euwema
2 years ago
A A
0
Buemi staying ‘humble and realistic’ about Glickenhaus debut potential
Share on FacebookShare on Twitter

Toyota driver Sebastien Buemi says he is not underestimating Scuderia Cameron Glickenhaus’ potential on its WEC debut, saying he is staying ‘humble and realistic’ in his approach to racing against the American squad.

Buemi is coming into the Eight Hours of Portimao as a leader in the overall championship, having defeated Alpine to win the opening round of the championship at Spa-Francorchamps.

While Toyota only had Alpine and its grandfathered ORECA-built LMP1 to reckon with at Spa, the second round at Portimao brings an entirely new adversary as Glickenhaus debuts its 007 Le Mans Hypercar.

While the true pace from the twin-turbocharged V8 American car remains to be seen, Buemi says that he is taking his new adversary seriously, although he believes the American privateer will have a steep learning curve ahead.

RelatedPosts

Alpine announces two-car LMP2 driver lineup for WEC 2023

Alpine announces two-car LMP2 driver lineup for WEC 2023

1 day ago
Grosjean hints he won’t race in WEC next year

Grosjean hints he won’t race in WEC next year

4 days ago

“Very humble, and realistic, you know,” Buemi told MotorsportWeek.com “I’m really happy and I welcome competition, because I think it’s better for the championship. It’s better for us in general. So I’m happy with that.

“However, you know, I know how hard it was for us, so I don’t expect it to be so much easier for them either. So yeah, expect them also to have some issues, like we did. So but who knows what they will be able to do?

“I’m not the kind of guy that says, you know, it’s gonna be easy for us, no, not at all. I I try to stay humble and see what happens after [practice] and throughout the weekend, but I’m happy that they’ve come and even more happy that they can come with two cars in Monza and Le Mans.”

The three-time Le Mans winner says he has identified a number of key areas where Toyota will be able to improve compared to its performance at Spa.

“I think as an operational point, we didn’t do such a good job. We had an unsafe release, we had an issue at the pitstop. We did not do a perfect execution of the race. Obviously, we had not raced since Bahrain.”

“I also think we’ve done a good job, you know. I mean, at the end of the day, we finished the race with the two cars. It’s not a given, especially having a completely new car.

“We’ve improved quite a lot the car throughout the weekend from where we started at the Prologue.

“If you look at the lap times in qualifying, they were decent, but I think in general, we’ve done a good improvement, but we need to work on making sure we can execute the race weekend without any mistakes, penalties or whatever.”

The former F1 driver also reckons that Toyota has even less margin for error than it had in Spa, now that the opposition also includes Glickenhaus.

“So we obviously had Alpine as a competitor [at Spa], and they did not finish far behind. But what you really see is that you can not afford any mistakes or penalties or stuff like that, so it is up to us to make sure we execute the weekend better than we did at Spa.”

The flipside of that, of course, is that strong execution for Toyota means that the Japanese squad will be able to take advantage of any mistakes or issues that Glickenhaus experience in their maiden championship outing.

Even despite Glickenhaus’ lack of experience racing on world championship level, Buemi remains adamant that the newcomers are not to be underestimated.

“I’m trying to stay humble and realistic,” he repeated. “You know, they can also come here and be very strong.

“They have Joest as a team to run the car, which is a strong team, we’ve know that and we’ve seen it in the past.

“Again, we will see, but what we want to do is focus on ourselves, make sure we do the best we can with what we have and make sure that when we finish the race on Sunday, we don’t have any regrets and know that we’ve done the best we could.”

Tags: 8hportimaoBuemiglickenhausHypercartoyotaWEC
Share402Tweet251Share100

Related Posts

Alpine announces two-car LMP2 driver lineup for WEC 2023
WEC

Alpine announces two-car LMP2 driver lineup for WEC 2023

1 day ago
Grosjean hints he won’t race in WEC next year
24H Le Mans

Grosjean hints he won’t race in WEC next year

4 days ago
Lamborghini to run single car entries in WEC and IMSA next year
24H Le Mans

Lamborghini to run single car entries in WEC and IMSA next year

5 days ago
Load More

Leave a Reply Cancel reply

Your email address will not be published. Required fields are marked *

Latest News

Daruvala: Fourth F2 season will boost Formula E hope

Daruvala: Fourth F2 season will boost Formula E hope

February 7, 2023
Team Penske extends long-running Verizon partnership

Team Penske extends long-running Verizon partnership

February 7, 2023
Alfa Romeo role ‘different from anything I’ve had in F1’ – Bottas

Alfa Romeo role ‘different from anything I’ve had in F1’ – Bottas

February 7, 2023
Motorsport Week

© 2023 Motorsport Media Services Ltd

Other Links

  • About & Contact
  • Privacy Policy
  • Motorsport Monday

Follow Us

No Result
View All Result
  • Login
  • Sign Up
  • Home
  • Formula 1
    • Latest News
    • Standings
    • 2023 F1 Calendar
    • Team/Driver Line-Up
    • Session Results
    • Driver Penalty Points
  • Formula E
    • Latest News
    • 2022/23 Formula E Standings
    • 2022/23 Formula E Calendar
    • Session Results
  • MotoGP
    • Latest News
    • Standings
    • Calendar
  • WRC
    • Latest News
    • Standings
    • Calendar
  • IndyCar
    • Latest News
    • Calendar
    • Standings
  • WEC
    • Latest News
    • Calendar
  • Live Updates
  • Other
    • Formula 2
    • Formula 3
    • Moto2
    • Moto3
    • WSeries
    • DTM
    • IMSA
  • Galleries
  • About/Contact
  • Privacy Policy

© 2023 Motorsport Media Services Ltd

Welcome Back!

Login to your account below

Forgotten Password? Sign Up

Create New Account!

Fill the forms below to register

All fields are required. Log In

Retrieve your password

Please enter your username or email address to reset your password.

Log In
X