McLaren wᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ𒀱ᩚᩚᩚill make a decision on entering the FIA World Endurance Championship's new hypercar-led premier class by the end of the summer.

The WEC confirmed on Friday that it would be going ahead with plans for a new top categ🌺ory from the 2020-21 sea🐠son that w꧟ill see manufacturers enter either prototypes or road-going cars to the class that will replace LMP1.

Toyota and Aston Martin have both confirmed their involvement in the new category🙈൲, but McLaren has been closely involved in discussions with the WEC and the Automobile Club de l'Ouest in forming the new regulations.

Asked by mahbx.com for his thoughts on the announcement, McLaren Racing CEO Zak Brown said he was "pleased with the direction" after a "lengthy work in progr𝓡ess".

"We’ll now, Gil [de Ferran], myself, Mike Flewitt, the🐽 CEO of Automotive, 💞we’ll all work together to ultimately come forward with a recommendation of if we want to do it, how we want to do it, when we want to do it," Brown said.

"Any time you get into Balance of Performance, there’sඣ a bit of a concern to make sure that gets done right, especially when you’ve got two formulas, but they’ve done a really good job in GTE, and therefore I have a good degree of confidence that they can ultimately get it right in WEC."

Brown and sporting director de Ferran confirmed McLaren is leaning towards entering a road-going hypercar to the category, no final decision had been madꦆe, nor had anything been decided 🎃on the potential use of a hybrid system in the cars, which will be optional in the new category.

It would, however, be ba🦩sed on a new road car fr♓om McLaren, and not the existing McLaren Senna.

Any entry to the new class would only come at the start of its second season in 2021-22, though, with de Ferran stressing a decision needed to be m💦ade in the near future.

"We really have to be deciding this by the end of the summer at the latest to be﷽ ready for 2021 and to do the job properly," he said, adding McLaren had to "absolutely" have a clear pla📖n on what road car would be used by that point.

Brown said that he was pleased to see Toyota and Aston Martin already comm🌱it to the class, and said he hoped many of McLaren's autom🐽otive rivals would follow suit.

"We want to race against our competition," Brown said. "It's great that Aston's in, and it's great that Toyota's in. They're a🎀 great racing entity, but we want to race against as many of our competitors as possible - our marketplace [competitors].

"I hope we see the Ferraris, the Porsches, the Lamborghinis. The majority of those have been in all the same meetings that we have. Hopefully some of the🎐m are going through the same process we're going through, and hopefully some of them come to the conclusion that we're going to do it."

McLaren famously wo🤪n the 24 Hours of Le Mans back in 1995 with its McLaren F1 GTR, but has not featured in the race since 1998.