The Peugeot 90X in action Peugeot has confirmed that the Peugeot 90X was recently tested at Monza, although the car in the photo is not the final version. On the outside, it bears a striking resemblance to the 908 HDi FAP, but several differences can be spotted, including the shark fin appendix on the engine [...]
Next month’s 1000km of Zhuhai in China will be the international swansong outing for the Larbre Compétition-run Saleen S7R LMGT1. It was in 2000 that the American Ford Mustang specialist Steve Saleen decided to take on the Dodge Viper, Corvette C5.R and Ferrari 550 Maranello in endurance racing with the S7R, a short version of [...]
To bide time until next month’s visit to China for the 1000km of Zhuhai, Sébastien Bourdais was in action recently driving a Ford Falcon, while Stéphane Sarrazin and Romain Dumas were battling together in France’s Criterium des Cévennes Rally. The Critérium des Cévennes is the most popular fixture of the French Rally Championship. Both Stéphane [...]
The third and final round of the inaugural Intercontinental Le Mans Cup (ILMC) takes teams to China for the 1000km of Zhuhai (November 7) which has attracted an entry of 24 cars. A high-profile official presentation of the Chinese event was held in a fashionable location in Hong Kong last week. A field of 24 [...]
How does a leading endurance racing team prepare for a race which takes place on practically unknown territory? LeMansLive asked Peugeot Sport’s Technical Director Bruno Famin. “Like most of the teams, we had very little data concerning Zhuhai, apart from its basic layout, its length and its turns. “At the end of August, someone from [...]
Henri Pescarolo is unlikely to forget Friday October 15, 2010, in a hurry. Thanks to his friends Jacques Nicolet, Joël Rivière and Maître Poulain, Pescarolo Sport has been raised from its ashes and will now be known as Pescarolo Team. It’s a year since the last win of a Pescarolo LMP1 prototype; a year since [...]
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Each year, Michelin organises test sessions with its partners as part of its preparations for the following season. This year saw Michelin invite its endurance racing partner teams to Aragon Motorland in the south of Spain for three days of intensive testing. The programme is focused on working on evolution-spec slicks for 2011. “The development [...]
American endurance races frequently require the teams to think on their feet when it comes to race strategy, an exercise in which Peugeot didn’t put a foot wrong at Road Atlanta… The numerous safety car interruptions in the USA tend to close up the field at regular intervals, and the teams are forced to revise [...]
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