Five laps into the race, his #93 prototype was running inside the Top 10 and, by the end of Lap 6, it had caught the other Hypercars on the leaderboard. The Frenchman’s intention was to match the pace of the other front-runners, whereas the Dane’s focus was more on weaving his way through the traffic as he fought his way up the order. While Loïc Duval (#94) started from fifth alongside his Hypercar opponents at the sharp end of the grid, Mikkel Jensen (#93) was the last driver to get away – from 36th position – after he failed to post a time during Saturday evening’s qualifying shootout. The process was nothing particularly revolutionary for a new car and a team in the process of coming together.įrom the outset, the races of the #94 and #93 cars followed different paths. Team Peugeot TotalEnergies was fully aware of what to expect at Monza, namely conditions that couldn’t be simulated in private testing, plenty of new information and fresh questions to be answered, as well as problems associated with racing in a competitive arena that it needed to discover in order to be able to resolve them. The moment formally marked PEUGEOT’s return to motor racing, under the watchful eyes of Peugeot CEO Linda Jackson and Stellantis CEO Carlos Tavares,
Mikkel Jensen and Loïc Duval were behind the wheel of the #93 and #94 PEUGEOT 9X8s respectively when the 2022 6 Hours of Monza got under way at Italy’s infamous ‘Temple of Speed’ at midday, Sunday, July 10. The steep learning curve will now continue with further private testing ahead of the next FIA WEC round, in Fuji, Japan, in September. The trip to Italy enabled it to harvest a significant amount of information as the team got to see how the PEUGEOT 9X8 performed in traffic and the afternoon’s extreme conditions. Team PEUGEOT TotalEnergies made its maiden appearance in the FIA World Endurance Championship (FIA WEC) at today’s 6 Hours of Monza.
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