TrackdayRSA.

No link to attach, but DailySportsCar has just tweeted that they have received confirmation that Peugeot is suspending its LMP program and withdrawing from the WEC championship with immediate effect. Not totally unexpected, but still very sad news.....I will never forget watching them battle it out with Audi when I went to Petit LeMans in 2010, and all of the epic battles they had last year. Hopefully they will be back at some point....

AtlJimK

http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/...EA853020120118

tasracer

no wonder bourdais signed in indycar

Matt Romanowski

I think the writing was on the wall after LeMans. The head of motorsport said he had promised the board they would win. When you spend that much money to be second, it gets old quick.

Ritter v4.0

I thought that you were supposed to go out on top.

Turb-OH Brad

They have won every race that they have competed in since 2009 barring Sebring 2009, Le Mans 2010, and Le Mans 2011.

I'd say they ARE going out on top, unfortunately Le Mans is bad luck.

Potomac-Greg

So, does Audi stay in LMP or move to other venues? It's nice to have all the victories (for marketing purposes) but the competition was great. It is amazing to see how the economic crisis slowly steamrolls nonessential activities on so many levels.

Rassel

Hybrids coming up

Ritter v4.0

Looking at Audi's crashes at last year's LeMans I'd say there were the ones with the bad luck.

Matt Romanowski

So they won essentially everything but the most important races?

AtlJimK

Myself in front of the Hybrid 908 that was on display this last year in Paris Peugeot store on the Champs-Élysées. It had a sign stating that it would be run in the 2012 ACO LMS series... oh well.

Turb-OH Brad

Pretty much. (Except they won Le Mans in 2009, and Sebring in 2010 and 2011)

Rassel

That was a cool car. But there is more coming up such as Toyota/Oreca creation.

The rules has also changed quite dramatically.
http://www.planetlemans.com/2011/10/...2-regulations/

Cory M

pics of the new toyota hybrid lmp1:

http://jalopnik.com/5877161/toyota-l...d-first-photos

basic shape looks very similar to Peugeot...

93 FireHawk 968

The Peugeot store on the Champs-Élysées is pretty cool. I had dinner there a couple of years ago.