6 Hours of Spa-Francorchamps, a first for Team PEUGEOT TotalEnergies!
The TotalEnergies 6 Hours of Spa-Francorchamps, third round of the FIA World Endurance Championship (FIA WEC) will take place on the 28th and 29th April. The Belgian track, at the heart of the Ardennes Forest, is considered one of the most challenging circuits in the world, renowned for its fast turns and its famous Raidillon.
6 Hours of Spa-Francorchamps, a first for Team PEUGEOT TotalEnergies!
It will be the first appearance of the PEUGEOT 9X8 on the Spa-Francorchamps layout, and as Olivier Jansonnie, Peugeot Sport technical director explains: “It’s a track like no other. The free practices will be our first time on it, we don’t know it and we have never tested there. We will have to anticipate, to quickly identify the optimums on a new track and with different conditions than in Portimão. At Spa, the weather conditions are usually unstable and more complicated to deal with. It’s a fantastic track and we are all very motivated to race on it with our PEUGEOT 9X8.” After a first Top 5 result last weekend, the Team PEUGEOT TotalEnergies’ aim for Spa-Francorchamps, the last dress rehearsal before the 24 Hours of Le Mans Centenary in June, will be to keep the same level of reliability of the #93 and #94 9X8 than in Portimão.
Stoffel Vandoorne, Peugeot Sport reserve driver, will be present at SpaFrancorchamps to support the Team PEUGEOT TotalEnergies and to bring his experience of his home-track to the team. The two PEUGEOT 9X8 will be back on track on the 27th of April for the first two free practice sessions. The qualifying session will take place on the 28th of April at 17h50 for the Hypercar class and the start of the race will be given on Saturday 29th April at 12h45.
Christian Deltombes – Team PEUGEOT TotalEnergies Team Manager: “Obviously Spa is a special meeting for a lot of us. It’s an iconic circuit with some particularities that some love and other not. The weather also makes it exciting. The weekend in Portimão brought some serenity to the team. Sebring was a bit of a shockwave but a positive one for the team and we can be proud of having reacted well after this race. The pitstops were especially efficient with the 2nd and 3rd best pitstop of the whole grid. We will give our maximum to confirm this dynamic at Spa even if we know that we still have a lot of work to do. The challenge is also bigger considering the small amount of time between Portimão and Spa.”
