Peugeot 9X8 2024: a claw finally sharp?

The innovative concept without aileron is no more, here is the French Hypercar flanked by a rear wing and above all a new tire. Changes designed to improve the lives of the team and the drivers, in order to take advantage of the rising winds born in Qatar and bring the Lionesses back to the top places in the WEC and at Le Mans.

Published 25/03/2024 à 15:30

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Sebring, March 2023. On the occasion of the eponymous 1000 Miles, the opening round of this season of WEC, Peugeot delivers a nightmarish ride. Lack of rhythm, reliability problems, the two 9X8s without aileron made their worst copy since their entry into competition a few months earlier, during the 6 Hours of Monza, in July 2022. The failure is all the more bitter as in the same time, Ferrari managed to win a pole and a podium for his first in Hypercar… and without encountering any major problems on his 499P. A resounding berezina, but a founding act of a (r)evolution at Versailles-Satory.

Motorland-Aragon, March 2024. One year after the Florida wreck, Peugeot is testing under the Spanish sun. Paul di Resta is the first of the seven drivers to venture onto the still-green tarmac, marked by different trajectories.

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