Peugeot added a rear wing to its 9x8 racer for the 2024 WEC season to make the most of BOP rule changes, the new livery representing a pack of lions.
After France's ACO racing organizing body created new rules for the Hypercar class in World Endurance Racing, manufacturers like Toyota, Glickenhaus, and eventually Cadillac, Ferrari, and Porsche created traditional-looking top-class race cars. Peugeot did not, debuting its 9x8 single-seater with an unmistakable headlight signature and an unmistakable rear end that went without a wing, its concept focused on ground-effects aero instead of silhouette aero.
Peugeot Sport Technical Director Olivia Jansonnie said rule changes at the beginning of the 2022 season put Peugeot at a disadvantage with Balance of Performance rules. On the new car, in the works since early 2023,"The idea was therefore to go back to a car design that is similar that of our rivals car design," he said,"so that it would then be given equivalent treatment by the BOP.
As on the last car, Peugeot Sport worked with Peugeot Design on a new livery in Peugeot Sport's various colors, described as"black, grey, white and kryptonite." The scheme puts the brand's lion icon all over, in different sizes, symbolizing a pack of lions that"conveys the sense of collective that reflects the values of Endurance racing perfectly.
After entering the previous 9x8 in the 2024 WEC season's first race in Qatar, the updated 9x8 enters the fray at the 6 Hours of Imola on April 21.
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