PEUGEOT SPORT ANNOUNCES 2024 9x8

Having completed several thousand miles of tests, Peugeot Sport is unveiling the 2024 Peugeot 9x8, which will make its competitive debut at the 6 Hours of Imola on the 21^st of April – round two of the 2024 FIA World Endurance Championship.

In order to make the most of regulation changes that allow teams to deploy a more effective tyre set-up using different widths at the front and rear, the Peugeot Sport team has adapted the aerodynamics of the 9x8 while maintaining the 90% of the bodywork, which now features a rear wing. For the third year running, Peugeot Design and Peugeot Sport have collaborated to come up with a very special livery, designed exclusively by Peugeot’s in-house teams with the emblematic lion lying at the heart of a design.

After a first full season in the FIA World Endurance Championship, including an encouraging performance at Le Mans, a podium finish at Monza and spending much of the opening race of the 2024 season at the front in Losail, the 9x8 has been fitted with substantial upgrading as it is set to play a key role this year in what looks to be a very competitive Hypercar class featuring nine manufacturers and nineteen prototypes. Peugeot Sport’s technical director Olivier Jansonnie explained, “It was a project within a project, which increased the team’s workload substantially. But we were able to rely on the unwavering commitment of Team PEUGEOT TotalEnergies and we’re now really looking forward to showing off the result of their hard work. The target is clearly to get back among the frontrunners, fight regularly for podiums and even challenge for race wins...” These subsequent upgrades include the replacement of identical 31/31cm tyre widths on all the wheels to 29cm tyres at the front and 34cm tyres at the rear and the redesigning of around 90% of the bodywork components, as well as the addition of the rear wing, to redistribute the aerodynamic loads. Jansonnie continued, “It was a project within a project, which increased the team’s workload substantially. But we were able to rely on the unwavering commitment of Team PEUGEOT TotalEnergies and we’re now really looking forward to showing off the result of their hard work. The target is clearly to get back among the frontrunners, fight regularly for podiums and even challenge for race wins.”

These upgrades also provided an opportunity to pursue the relationship which began four years ago with Peugeot Sport. Peugeot’s Brand Design Director Matthias Hossann noted, “After an elegant, understated design to mark PEUGEOT’s return to Endurance racing in 2022, then the 2023 livery produced by the visual artist Demsky, celebrating both the Centenary of the 24 Hours of Le Mans and the 30th anniversary of PEUGEOT’s one-two-three at Le Mans 24H, this time we came up with a design that deploys the ‘Lion Head’ in different scales… We wanted to highlight this team spirit and the wealth of talent in the team.”

Peugeot’s Brand Chief Executive Officer, Linda Jackson, commented, “2023, the first full year of Team PEUGEOT TotalEnergies competing in the FIA World Endurance Championship, was a rewarding experience for everyone involved as the team took shape, and showed its determination and passion, even though there were difficult times. For 2024, the target is still the same, to win races! We know that the competition will be even tougher this year but our team has worked very hard to develop a 2024 version of the PEUGEOT 9X8 that reflects the values of the brand perfectly.”