日: 2021年7月6日

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Powered by a hybrid power unit that drives through all-wheel drive transmission, the prototype embodies Peugeot’s Neo-Performance strategy delivering performance to both the brand’s road and racing cars.

The Le Mans Hypercar project allowed the manufacturer’s engineering team and design to work hand in hand, allowing to explore new aerodynamic solutions, such as the absence of the rear wing, and styling ideas thus executing a strong brand identity.

The 9X8 is a successor to the 905, winner of the Le Mans 24 Hours in 1992 and 1993, and the 908, which won the French classic in 2009. The new prototype is poised to continue the make’s long and successful involvement in world-class motor sport with cars that feature strong, instantly recognisable brand identity.

The name of Peugeot’s new Hypercar challenger is the Peugeot 9X8. The “9” continues the series employed by the manufacturer for its recent topflight endurance racing cars, namely the Peugeot 905 and the 908.

The “X” refers to the Peugeot Hypercar’s all-wheel drive technology and hybrid powertrain which embodies the brand’s electrification strategy in the world of motor racing. 

The “8” is the suffix used for all of Peugeot’s current model names, from the 208 and 2008 to the 308, 3008, 5008 and the 508 which very recently passed through the hands of the engineers and designers who crafted the Hypercar to become the first car to sport the Peugeot Sport Engineered label. 

“The overall lines of the Peugeot 9X8 express the brand’s styling cues, while its sleek, racy, elegant forms inspire emotion and dynamism,” said Peugeot’s Design Director Matthias Hossann.

Exceptional attention was also paid to the 9X8’s interior. “We wanted to take a special approach to the cockpit which, until now, has tended to be a purely functional and indistinctive aspect of racing cars, with no brand identity whatsoever,” underlines Hossann.

“The combination of our colour scheme and Peugeot’s i-Cockpit interior styling signature have provided the 9X8’s cockpit with a distinctive feel and make it immediately identifiable as a PEUGEOT in on-board camera shots,” he concludes.

“The new Le Mans Hypercar regulations were drawn up to level out the importance of conventional performance-boosting systems,” explains Olivier Jansonnie, Peugeot Sport’s WEC Programme Technical Director.

“Designing the 9X8 has been a passionate experience because we had the freedom to invent, innovate and explore off-the-wall ways to optimise the car’s performance, and more especially its aerodynamics. The regulations stipulate that only one adjustable aerodynamic device is permitted, without specifying the rear wing. Our calculation work and simulations revealed that high performance was effectively possible without one.”

“The absence of a rear wing on the Peugeot 9X8 is a major innovative step,” says Stellantis Motorsport Director Jean-Marc Finot. “We have achieved a degree of aerodynamic efficiency that allows us to do away with this feature. Don’t ask how, though! We have every intention of keeping that a secret as long as we possibly can!”

“There’s more to Peugeot’s involvement in endurance racing than the sporting aspect,”  insists Linda Jackson.

“Endurance racing is a form of motorsport that provides us with an extreme laboratory, which explains why our association with Le Mans is so strong. More significant perhaps than the results we obtain on the race track are the opportunities it provides to prove our technology and the fruit of our research work in a race that throws extreme conditions at you for 24 hours.”

“Le Mans gives us a competitive environment to validate the hybrid systems and technologies we are currently developing to reduce the fuel consumption – and therefore CO2 emissions – of our road cars. The teams at Peugeot Sport are proud when they see their research carried over to our production models. For our customers, Le Mans is a laboratory that testifies to the quality of our cars.”

A pair of Peugeot’s 9X8s will contest next year’s FIA WEC.

PEUGEOT 9X8 LE MANS HYPERCAR – SPEC AND TECH 

Length: 5,000mm 
Width: 2,080mm 
Height: 1,180mm 
Wheelbase: 3,045mm 
Powertrain: Peugeot Hybrid4 500KW (all-wheel drive) 
Rear-drive train: 500kW (680hp), 2.6L twin-turbo, 90-degree V6 petrol internal combustion engine + seven-speed sequential transmission 
Front-drive train: 200kW electric motor-generator + single-speed reducer 
Battery: High density, 900-volt battery co-designed by Peugeot Sport, TotalEnergies/Saft 
Fuel and lubricants: TotalEnergies

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With the global COVID-19 pandemic taking hold in the last 17 months, companies were forced to refocus their objectives and demonstrate their broader role in the world.

This is why the FIA launched the PurposeDriven movement: to accelerate and amplify its positive contributions to society in four key areas – ‘Environment’, ‘Health & Safety’, ‘Diversity & Inclusion’ and ‘Community Development’.

Leading figures from the civil society and FIA Club representatives championing similar priorities, shared impactful initiatives and best practice from the Sport and Mobility communities. Their common aim is to make a positive contribution to society by encouraging inclusivity, while spearheading safer and more eco-friendly innovation and behaviours.

FIA Environment and Sustainability Commission President Felipe Calderón opened the session by discussing the FIA’s commitment to net-zero carbon emissions by 2030 and the importance of ensuring that motor sport is not associated with contributing to the problem of carbon emissions.

President Calderón said: “We estimated in the last five decades, that we have lost two thirds of mammals, snakes, birds, and fish. It is clear that this phenomenon is taken more seriously in the youngest generations, and actually we can lose people in motor sport if we don’t address this issue. For a lot of people, there is a negative association between motor sport and the environment. Somebody told me this morning that the environment is against cars. It doesn’t need to be that way, and it will not be that way if we address this issue the right way.”

As motor sport can often be a testbed for new technologies, Mercedes-AMG Petronas Formula 1 Team boss and co-owner Toto Wolff believes that motor sport has a responsibility to seek out new solutions and apply them to the road to help solve the challenges that face society.

“We have always been the fastest lab in the world,” said Wolff. “We drive innovation by seeking performance, and in motor racing, performance also means efficiency distance. The better we work, the more innovations we can create, the more we can translate them into the car industry and other industries that utilise fuels. The more we can actually help in climate change, the more we can contribute to the reduction in carbon emissions, the more relevant we will be.

“If you look at F1 today and the large audiences that follow us, especially the younger audiences, our strongest growing group is the 15 to 35 year-olds. I believe for these younger audiences, F1 stands for innovation and high tech.”

Following a summit between the major engine manufacturers in F1 at last weekend’s Austrian Grand Prix, an outline of what the sport should look like was discussed. Wolff said that there was a consensus that it should not go back to loud combustion engines – and increase the electrical component.

“Why are we staying with the internal combustion engine? Because we believe that the fuel is going to be with us for a long time. In Europe, we may have the ambitious targets of having electric mobility as part of our daily life by 2030, and I can see at Mercedes how ambitious the targets are, but in the rest of the world, we will have millions of vehicles that would still run on fuel.

“For Mercedes cars itself, we believe that we will have several million vehicles globally that will still run on fuels. What we can contribute with our innovation is to help them develop sustainable fuels; be it biofuels or synthetic fuels. Our cars will run on 100 percent sustainable fuels by 2025, and this is how we will contribute to the reduction to the world’s CO₂ emissions.”

General Manager of Automóvil Club del Ecuador Gorki Obando wrapped up the discussion by highlighting the initiatives that are taking place in Ecuador, notably the use of electric cars when teaching people how to drive to help them understand this efficient method of transport.

The discussion then moved to the ‘Diversity & Inclusion’ pillar, which was opened with a video message from seven-time FIA Formula 1 World Champion Lewis Hamilton who provided an update on the work of the Hamilton Commission which was set up last year.

“Next week, we’ll be sharing the results and publishing the Hamilton Commission’s final report, which includes 10 recommendations. I believe these will help address the barriers that people face when entering the industry, and I’m looking forward to sharing these recommendations with you and can’t wait to put them into action,” said Hamilton. “While the Hamilton Commission focuses on the motor sport industry in the UK, I believe this model can be taken by all of you and replicated across other countries and industries. So, I hope that this is just the start of our journey together.”

This commitment to diversity was echoed by President and CEO of the International Peace Institute Zeid Ra’ad Al Hussein who outlined the goals and the next steps of the diversity and inclusion rights strategy within the FIA.

Al Hussein also confirmed that they would be presenting guiding principles, and practical recommendations for the consideration of FIA’s leadership shortly. The discussion was rounded out with Motorsport Australia CEO Eugene Arocca, who talked about the inclusivity and diversity initiatives that are currently taking place in the country.

CEO of EssilorLuxottica Paul du Saillant, who today announced the renewal of a partnership with the FIA for the promotion of good vision for safer roads, was joined by Touring Club Suisse (TCS) President Peter Goetschi and Automóvil Club de Chile (ACCHI) President Alejandro Quintana Hurtado, to discuss how they are helping road safety in their respective fields.

The joint session concluded with a discussion on the role of sport in helping communities out of the pandemic, between Global Association of International Sports Federations President Raffaele Chiulli and AKK Motorsport President Jarmo Mahonen.

Chiulli said: “Think about what’s going to happen in less than two weeks from now in Tokyo. The Olympic Games are going to be an example of how, after one year and a half of isolation, cancelled or delayed sporting events, the overall sport community is going to reunite and put sport at the centre.”

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