“I am sure we could have managed a podium, or at least had a fight to the end.' Oil leak issues dashed Peugeot's hopes of a first WEC podium finish for its new 9X8 Hypercar at Fuji:
Both Oliver Jansonnie, technical director of the 9X8 Le Mans Hypercar project, and driver James Rossiter are confident that Peugeot had the pace to compete with the third-placed Alpine A480 through the Fuji 6 Hours.
The Peugeot dropped back to fourth behind the car Negrao shared with Nicolas Lapierre and Matthieu Vaxiviere during the second pitstop cycle after Rossiter was pushed off track by a GTE Am car on its in-lap and lost approximately three seconds. The problem cost the #94 20 minutes in the pits, meaning it could finish no better than 20th, 15 laps in arrears of the Toyota GR010 Hybrids that finished 1-2.
The in-house Peugeot Sport team believes it made considerable progress in the two months between Monza and Fuji, which included a pair of multi-day tests. Using a 100-lap average the #93 car was only 0.049s a lap slower than the #7 Toyota and 0.006s ahead of the Alpine.
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