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Two Peugeot 908 HDi FAPs for Spa
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Following March’s 12 Hours of Sebring, Team Peugeot Total is continuing its preparations for the Le Mans 24 Hours and, as announced at the pre-season presentation in February, the second phase of the programme will take the squad to Spa-Francorchamps in Belgium.
Based on the lessons learnt at Sebring, Peugeot Sport has decided to enter two 908 HDi FAPs for the 1,000km de Spa-Francorchamps (May 9-10) instead of the three cars initially planned.
“This decision is not due to any delay in either our preparation or our work load, but to a small change in our organisational set-up,” points out Peugeot Sport Director Olivier Quesnel. “Our priority is still Le Mans and I don’t want to see the team tire itself out by having to prepare three cars for Spa, especially since we are also working on our ongoing endurance simulation programme. We have consequently chosen six drivers for the Belgian race based on the number of kilometres they have respectively put in at the wheel of the 908 HDi FAP.”
N°7 Peugeot 908 HDi FAP
Christian KLIEN (AUT) / Nicolas MINASSIAN (FRA) / Simon PAGENAUD (FRA)
N°9 Peugeot 908 HDi FAP
David BRABHAM (AUS) / Marc GENE (ESP) / Alexander WURZ (AUT)
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Good news! David, it is the golden opportunity for you to win 24 Hours of Le Mans 3 years in a row. 2009 ALMS may not be challenging to you with Audi out of sight. Peugeot just need one reliable car and zero mistake to win this. Marc Gene will need to up to the challenge. Good luck David ! We will like to see you win this year Le Mans.
Past Lemans races Peugeot had the chance to win the race, but they have made bad calls they even made a bad call at sebring, I want to see Peugeot put David Brabham,Simon Pagenaud, and Sebastien Bourdais Together. I want PEUGEOT to beat Audi at LeMans this year.
Bourdais beim the biggest star, he will only drive with an all french line up for marketing purposes.
Peugeot might require that pagenaud starts and finishes the pescarolo 908 at lemans so they can have some on how it finishes
Not taking risks and bad calls is the problem. Those Peugeot cars even having problems they are put back in the front something Audi can affort to do, they even have to put that “new” car R-15 because they where going to get beat.Can’t wait for the 908HY.
“I don’t want to see the team tire itself out by having to prepare three cars for Spa”, now we are reaching the limits of the fluffy talk…
“I don’t want to see the team tire itself out by having to prepare three cars for Spa”
…And this will be the reason they once again suffer defeat at the hands of Audi.
If they are more reliable then Audi, watch out!
ya, i doubt they will stand a chance against the Audi!
Indeed that was fluffy talk. But i still think this year they will get it. They have to!
The Barcelona race showed that, without the factory Peugeots and Audis, the LMS is a far more open and interesting championship with there being any number of potential race winners. Peugeot’s decision to enter the Spa race has made the result of that race entirely predictable – a shame.