RACER expects the company to confirm that it will field a Le Mans Hypercar for either a full, or near-full, 2022 season and beyond together, with technical partner Total.Further announcements this week should confirm both the final top class regulations, and, potentially, a new name for the class.Details of when the ACO will allow entries to that combined top class may well also be revealed, and may give some further clues about the options for Renault Alpine and others in the next two years.The headline from the fifth hour of the Le Mans 24 Hours came in GTE Pro. 008 and No. The newer 908 features a smaller diesel than its predecessor, utilizing a 3,700 cc (230 cu in) HDi V8 engine with Honeywell Turbo Technologies turbocharger in order to meet new regulations for 2011.

In a short two hour period on Monday morning, both Peugeot Sport and Renault (via its Alpine sporting subsidiary) expanded on plans to return to the top tier of endurance racing. 9 car, followed immediately by the privately entered Pescarolo Sport Peugeot. At the end of the ornate exhaust headers on the twin-turbodiesel V6, V8, V10 and V12 engines made by Audi and Peugeot, massive particulate filters were used during the rich era of LMP1 competition between the two factories.Installed to prevent the familiar plumes of soot and smoke expelled by the glowing diesel motors, those particulate filters worked wonders to alter the perception of diesels, and with the outrageous speeds generated by Peugeot’s 908 HDi FAPs and Audi’s R-series TDIs, an entire automotive market segment felt faster and friendlier as the LMP1s whooshed by in near silence.As a marketing strategy, pushing the ‘clean diesel’ narrative was a massive success at the 24 Hours of Le Mans, but those particulate filters weren’t necessarily a perfect solution for all conditions.In an excerpt from the Peugeot 908 LMP1 Memories podcast with Sebastien Bourdais, Anthony Davidson, and Pedro Lamy, a filtering problem at Circuit Paul Ricard during the early days of the 908 program, when current FIA World Endurance Championship CEO Gerard Neveu was in charge of the track, led to an incident that had the drivers howling with laughter, and the circuit boss fuming with smoky rage.Bourdais: “I remember one of the first times we fired up at Paul Ricard, Gerard Neveu was chasing us probably 10 miles out of the racetrack, because he was furious with us because, basically, the smoke invaded. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed in any form without prior authorization. The LMP1 class saw the first competition between the new diesel engined Peugeot 908 HDi FAP prototype and the diesel Audi R10 TDI, the 2006 Le Mans winner; the Audi once again achieved an overall victory.

Basically it completely filled the entire space. Toyota’s No. Turning the insanely powerful Peugeot 908 HDi FAP into a race-winning machine took plenty of time when it embarked upon its debut season of LMP1 competition in 2 GMG Racing Porsche 718 (…),Four hours down now in the Le Mans 24 Hours. The announcement follows last month's news that Peugeot … Toyota still leads overall and very little has changed in LMP1 over the past 60 minutes. 007 Aston Martins.

The four-wheel-drive hybrid will produce about 680BHP, and be slightly larger than the cars which raced in the LMP1 class. Technical insight. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed in any form without prior authorization. “One is the complete freedom we have on the shape of the car,” he told Sportscar365. The No. If you knew the distinct taste and smell of it, you could definitely say, ‘Oh yes, it’s still there.’ Despite their very best effort to clean and erase the smell, I think we still have the world record (for diesel smoke) over there.”.The 2020 season marks Marshall Pruett's 34th year working in the sport. Porsche now effectively has one bullet left in its gun. 7 Toyota continues to lead the Le Mans 24 Hours, with Mike Conway still at the wheel having had a faultless run thus far. 7 Toyota continues to lead the Le Mans 24 Hours, with Mike Conway still at the wheel having had a faultless run thus far. In his role today for RACER, Pruett covers open-wheel and sports car racing as a writer, reporter, photographer, and filmmaker. The fastest LMP1 not running a diesel engine was the second Pescarolo entry with a time of 3:35.868, followed by the No. Racer Media & Marketing, Inc., 17030 Red Hill Avenue, Irvine, CA 92614, 949.417.6700 "Together, we are going to build a car and team to compete in what promises to be a fiercely-contested championship as we seek to begin a successful record together.