1812 km of Qatar – H9: Peugeot under threat from a Porsche JOTA

• Peugeot will he retain his 2nd place at the opening of the world championship?Endurance FIA WEC 2024? The #9 8X93 of Mikkel Jensen-Jean-Eric Vergne-Nico Mueller is less than three seconds ahead of the Porsche customer number 12 of the Hertz Team JOTA team (Callum Ilott, Will Stevens, Norman Nato).
• The No. 963 Penske Motorsport Porsche 6 of the Kevin Estre-André Lotterer-Laurens Vanthoor trio is well ahead, one lap ahead of its closest pursuer.
• Very few changes in the ranking, except theAlpine A424 n°35 (Charles Milesi-Ferdinand Habsburg-Paul-Loup Chatin) which regularly pokes its nose into the Top 10.
• Alpine is currently the best of the newcomers. BMW has been very discreet all weekend, and the #15 of Dries Vanthoor-Raffaele Marciello-Marco Wittmann has just returned to the garage with the front hood removed.
• The multiple reigning world champions Toyota are still far from the mark. The GR010 – Hybrid n°7 and n°8 are only 7th and 10th.

Status quo in LMGT3

• The leading trio in the new LMGT3 category hasn't changed for a while.
• The #911 Porsche 3 GT3 R LMGT92 (Aliaksandr Malykhin-Joel Sturm-Klaus Bachler) precedes theAston Martin Heart of Racing Team's #3 Vantage GT27, and the #4 BMW M3 GT46 from Team WRT.