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• The second half of the 2024 FIA World Endurance Championship season kicks off in Brazil at the 6 Hours of São Paulo

• Team Peugeot TotalEnergies will be looking to build on the reliability shown by the PEUGEOT 9X8 2024 at Le Mans

• Peugeot returns to Interlagos, where it contested the Mil Milhas de São Paulo in 2007 with the Peugeot 908 HDI FAP

• The no. 94 Peugeot 9X8 (Di Resta/Duval/Vandoorne) took 11th place and the no. 93 (Vergne/Jensen/Müller) finished 12th overall at the 2024 24 Hours of Le Mans.

• A record crowd of 329,000 fans braved poor weather conditions to attend this year’s race, which saw numerous on-track incidents and safety car periods.

•  In difficult conditions, Team Peugeot TotalEnergies showed great perseverance to steer both Peugeot 9X8s to the end of the world’s greatest Endurance race.

• The no. 94 PEUGEOT 9X8 moved into the top ten, closely followed by the no. 93. Loïc Duval and Mikkel Jensen are currently behind the wheel.

• The race was run under the safety car between 4am and 8am due to heavy rain.

• There are four hours of racing left and Team Peugeot TotalEnergies is going to keep pushing all the way to the chequered flag.

• Nico Müller and Paul Di Resta lined up at the start of the 2024 24 Hours of Le Mans in the PEUGEOT 9X8. Mikkel Jensen and Loïc Duval were behind the wheel for two hours and have just handed over to Jean-Eric Vergne and Stoffel Vandoorne.

• Both cars lost time on an overly conservative pit stop to fit wet weather tyres and a drive-through penalty.

• Given the very narrow gaps between the leading cars, these racing incidents have had a very significant impact on the standings, although both Peugeot cars remain in the top 20.

• Jean-Eric Vergne (no. 93 PEUGEOT 9X8) and Stoffel Vandoorne (no.94 PEUGEOT 9X8) ended today’s qualifying session in 16^th and 21^st places respectively.

• In order to prepare for the race, both PEUGEOT 9X8 2024 hypercars completed the equivalent of several stints with the same tyres as those used in free practice.

• There remains three free practice sessions, held between this evening and tomorrow, before the 92^nd edition of the 24 Hours of Le Mans gets underway on Saturday at 4pm.

• “Pesage”, the traditional scrutineering process held in Le Mans city centre, kicked off the big week of the 24 Hours of Le Mans

• Paul Di Resta drove the PEUGEOT 9X8 2024 through the streets of Le Mans cheered on by big crowds

•  Team Peugeot TotalEnergies was able to get reacquainted with the Circuit de la Sarthe (13.626km) during Sunday’s Test Day

• Team Peugeot TotalEnergies has entered two PEUGEOT 9X8 2024 Hypercars for the 92^nd edition of the 24 Hours of Le Mans

• The target is to have maximum reliability and showcase the performance gains made on the PEUGEOT 9X8 2024

• Twenty-three prototypes are set to compete in the elite Hypercar category and more than 320,000 fans are expected during the madness that is “Le Mans week”

• The Nedey Automobiles Group, a family-owned and people-oriented company historically linked to the PEUGEOT brand.

• PEUGEOT strengthens its ties with its dealerships and customers through this partnership.

• After starting 13^th and 15^th, the PEUGEOT 9X8 2024 finished in 9^th and 14^th places.

• Team Peugeot TotalEnergies collected precious data as it prepares for the 24 Hours of Le Mans (15/16 June).

• The race was red flagged for almost two hours before being restarted and extended for an hour and 44 minutes. Team Peugeot TotalEnergies managed to adapt.

• Team Peugeot TotalEnergies looks to learn more about the PEUGEOT 9X8 2024 at the iconic Spa racetrack, the “roller-coaster of the Ardennes"

• On this occasion, the PEUGEOT 9X8 2024 crews will consist of just two drivers: Jensen – Müller for the no. 93 car and Di Resta – Duval for the no. 94, with Malthe Jakobsen also in Spa as support driver

• A month before this year’s 24 Hours of Le Mans (15/16 June), the TotalEnergies 6 Hours of Spa-Francorchamps will be a dress rehearsal for the greatest race in world motorsport

• Dassault Systèmes and Stellantis’ Peugeot Sport partnered to optimize the aerodynamics of the PEUGEOT 9X8 hybrid hypercar for the 2024 World Endurance Championship season
• Dassault Systèmes’ SIMULIA applications powered by the 3DEXPERIENCE platform were used to simulate and evaluate the effects of different designs on vehicle performance
• Scientifically accurate simulation enabled Peugeot Sport to enhance its design decisions to support the industry’s shift from thermal engines to hybrid and electric vehicles

• On its world championship début, the no. 93 PEUGEOT 9X8 2024 (Jensen/Müller/Vergne) finished ninth overall at the 6 Hours of Imola

• The no. 94 PEUGEOT 9X8 2024 (Di Resta/Duval/Vandoorne) was hit by bad luck before finishing in 15^th place

• 73,600 fans braved the changeable weather to watch six hours of intensive racing

• On their much-anticipated début in the FIA World Endurance Championship, the PEUGEOT 9X8 2024 qualified 14^th and 15^th respectively

• Team Peugeot TotalEnergies showed the reliability and potential of its car in free practice but lacked the pace to fight at the front in qualifying

• Tomorrow’s race looks set to be a tricky affair with a total of 37 cars, including 19 Hypercar prototypes, competing on the narrow Imol

• Both Team Peugeot TotalEnergies’ PEUGEOT 9X8s are entered in the 6 Hours of Imola, round two of the FIA World Endurance Championship.

• After a year of development and having completed some 8,000km of track testing, the PEUGEOT 9X8 2024 was unveiled on 25 March: substantially reworked underneath its stunning new “Lion head” livery, it retains its core DNA with a more streamlined, dynamic silhouette topped off by its new rear wing.

• After a chaotic opening race in Qatar that ended in dramatic fashion, Team Peugeot TotalEnergies is determined to bounce back in Italy.

• Peugeot becomes the first constructor in the WEC paddock to receive the FIA’s prestigious environmental rating

• The manufacturer acts as a trailblazer for all Stellantis Motorsport teams, which have worked hard on putting into place good practices to lessen impacts on the environment

• This important accreditation underlines Peugeot’s commitment to energy transition

• Having completed several thousand kilometres of tests, Team Peugeot TotalEnergies is delighted to unveil the 2024 PEUGEOT 9X8, which will make its competitive début at the 6 Hours of Imola (21 April), round two of the 2024 FIA World Endurance Championship.

• In order to make the most of changes to the regulations that allow teams to deploy a more effective tyre set-up using different widths at the front (29cm) and rear (34cm), the Peugeot Sport team has adapted the aerodynamics of the PEUGEOT 9X8, whilst modifying 90% of the bodywork, which now features a rear wing.

• For the third year running, Peugeot Design and Peugeot Sport have worked together to come up with a very special livery, designed exclusively by PEUGEOT’s in-house teams. The brand’s emblematic Lion – a symbol of speed, flexibility and strength – lies at the heart of the design.

Save the date – The lion's are coming

• Thanks to a strong team performance, the no.93 PEUGEOT 9X8 was running in second place on the penultimate lap. Sadly, it ended the following lap – and the race – with an eventual disqualification announced with the official standings, whilst the no.94 PEUGEOT 9X8 finished sixteenth.

• Starting sixth on the grid, Nico Müller led the race for 37 laps in what was an undeniably competitive Peugeot 9X8 this weekend.

• The Qatar 1812km was the final race for the 2023 PEUGEOT 9X8, with the 2024 version due to make its début at the 6 Hours of Imola.

• After qualifying for the Hyperpole, contested solely by the top ten of the nineteen Hypercars, the two PEUGEOT 9X8s will start on the third and fifth rows of the starting grid for the Qatar 1812km.

• A promising result that confirms the progress made by Team Peugeot TotalEnergies during the FIA WEC Official Prologue held at the start of the week and in free practice leading up to the opening round of the FIA WEC 2024 season.

• Team Peugeot TotalEnergies is due to start the 2024 season of the FIA World Endurance Championship on 24-25 February at the Prologue, followed on 2 March by the Qatar 1812km in Lusail, with two 2023 versions of its PEUGEOT 9X8.

• The Team’s second full season gets underway in what promises to be an exciting year, with a high-class field and an eighth round added to the race calendar.

• The target for the no. 93 car driven by Mikkel Jensen – Nico Müller – Jean-Eric Vergne and the no. 94 car driven by Paul Di Resta – Loïc Duval – Stoffel Vandoorne will be to draw on the lessons learned last season to make the most of the 2023 PEUGEOT 9X8, before it is replaced with the 2024 version at the following round in Imola (21 April).