This weekend's edition of the Le Mans 24 Hours offered Peugeot the perfect backdrop to release the first images of its hypercar that will contest the endurance classic in 2022. The event's hypercar class regulations that will come into force in 2022 provide manufacturers with the option of developing a specific car or modifying an existing road-going model. It built a new hybrid turbodiesel for the rebirth season of the WEC in 2012, but pulled out of the series ahead of the campaign.Big crash on Bristol frontstretch in Xfinity regular-season finale,Annett crashes out after contact with Graf Jr. at Bristol,Chastain emotional after Bristol: ‘Just didn’t get it done’,Brown on making Xfinity playoffs: ‘It’s a dream come true’,Briscoe bumps Cindric for Bristol victory,Briscoe after Bristol win: ‘Ain’t no way we’re getting beat today’,DiBenedetto explains a lap around Bristol on iRacing,Logano on Bristol: ‘Ready to make it happen’,Intensity of cutoff amplified at Bristol Motor Speedway,Playoff driver Austin Hill sustains early damage at Bristol,Grant Enfinger’s No. Peugeot announces a return to endurance racing at Le Mans for 2022 in the new Hypercar class. The emergence of some privateer squads has prevented LMP1 from becoming a complete joke, but the FIA together with the ACO (the organisers of the Le Mans 24 Hours) realised something needed to be done in the wake of the manufacturer exodus.Therefore some new regulations are coming into effect for 2020 and will focus on two main things - reducing costs, and making the cars look less like spaceships and more like actual cars. ".The three-time Le Mans-winning marque said that the images released with Friday's statement timed to coincide with this year's Le Mans "reveal the first concepts of design and incorporate the fundamental required elements, particularly in terms of dimensions".Peugeot design director Matthias Hossann said that the "LMH category offers an unprecedented and historical opportunity for sports and design teams to collaborate".Peugeot announced late year that it would be entering the WEC in 2022 with an LMH car, but subsequently revealed that it was evaluating the LMDh rules after the announcement of the category in January of this year.The latest announcement did not put a firm date on Peugeot's entry into the WEC. Le Mans Hypercar: endurance racing’s new premier league Certain additional regulatory and sporting elements for endurance racing’s newest category were yesterday confirmed by the FIA World Motor Sport Council at a meeting held in Paris. The hypercar class for Le Mans is a new one, and debuts in the 2020/2021 season with Toyota and Aston Martin already signed up to compete.
Peugeot Sport confirmed that it will compete in the Le Mans Hypercar category of the FIA WEC with its new top-class sports car, today at Le Mans, and not LMDh.
Le Mans: Our Challenge - Three in a row, Let's go. Peugeot is using this weekend's Le Mans 24hr race to release the first images and details of its entrant to the new 2022 hypercar class of the race.. Preview - 2020 Le Mans 24 Hours - Michelin Motorsport.
Back in the late 1990s rules stipulated that road versions had to be built of any race car, which essentially led to manufacturers cooking up purpose-built racing machines and then making a couple of hopelessly impractical (but endlessly awesome) road legal versions.
After all, allowing manufacturers to display their own identity is a part of the reason why GT racing has exploded in popularity the world over - why couldn’t the same thing work in prototypes?The new ‘hypercar’ styling is a major throwback to another popular era of endurance racing - GT1. Official Site of LMP3 Cup Championship","It's All Systems Go For LMP3 Gen II – dailysportscar.com","Prototype Challenge Teams Weigh In on Class Future – Sportscar365",Official website of the 24 Hours of Le Mans,https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Le_Mans_Prototype&oldid=979154337,Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License,1,800 millimetres (71 in) (min) to 1,900 millimetres (75 in) (max),690 millimetres (27 in) front, 715 millimetres (28.1 in) rear,342 millimetres (13.5 in) front, 362 millimetres (14.3 in) rear.