Peugeot ready with 9×8 Hybrid Hypercar it will race in the world Endurance Champion racers starting this July. When the French automaker introduced its novel design last year, the character of the car was missing one feature: There was no rear spoiler, just a ducktail spoiler along the rear edge. . Data from more than 6,000 miles over 25 days of testing this year at the Aragon, Paul Ricard, Magny-Cours, Barcelona and Portimao circuits required slight alterations to the rear areas. The straps on the top of the rear fender are longer than the front, each sprouting a spoiler and end pads. The result will still be unlike anything else on the track we’ve seen so far, unless Cadillac followed with its similar wingless LMDh vehicle.
Peugeot says the tall rear wing first appeared on 24 hours of Le Mans in 1967, referring to Chaparral The 2F has an adjustable height control vane. The last time a car without tall wings won a day-long race in rural France was 1971, when the current Red Bull F1 advisor Helmut Marko and Gijs van Lennep drove one Porsche 917 to the checkered flag. Peugeot won races in 1992 and 1993, accompanying the winged crowd in a V10-powered Peugeot 905 and again in 2009 with a diesel-V12-powered 908 HDi-FAP.
The 9×8 is powered by a 2.6-liter twin-turbo V6 behind the driver, sending 671 hp through a seven-speed sequential gearbox to the rear wheels. A 268 hp electric motor-generator rotates the front axle. However, the driver’s first display won’t use any of that, as Peugeot will take the Kryptonite car to next month’s Le Mans 24 Hours just as a static display. The first competitive test takes place next month, at 6 o’clock at Monza in Italy on July 10. From now until then, Peugeot Sport plans to do more testing, including running the car’s first six hours in race conditions. Two vehicles are planned for the campaign in Italy, where they will face off against the epic Alpine LMP1, and supercar from Scuderia Cameron Glickenhaus and Toyota. Driver pairs are yet to be arranged, but the six-man team includes Loic Duval, Mikkel Jensen, Gustavo Menezes, Paul di Resta, Jean-Eric Vergne and the final addition of James Rossiter, Haas’ replacement. F1 Driver Kevin Magnussen.
The team says they will be traveling to Italy to compete for the win, not using the event as a test session or merely a parade. The plan is to take the final two rounds, 6 Fuji hours and 8 Bahrain hours, before the proper test begins for 24 Hours of Le Mans next year. Sometimes between now and then we’ll see a road version of the 9×8, the rules of the series requiring hypercar entries to put 20 models up for sale to the public.
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