WEC boss Frederic Lequien confirmed that the new Peugeot 9X8 Le Mans Hypercar will be required to race at either the Sebring 1000 Miles season opener in March or round two at Spa in early May if the French manufacturer is to be allowed to take up its two WEC entries for the double-points round on 11-12 June.
“They must race one event before, so we expect to have them at Spa,” said Lequien. “I am not working for Peugeot, so it would be better to ask them if they will be ready for Sebring.
“It is going to be very difficult [for them] to be at Sebring, but after yes.”
Peugeot has never declared a rigid timeframe for when its new four-wheel-drive LMH prototype will begin racing, only that it will be over the course of 2022.
It has repeatedly re-iterated that it will only make a decision on when to race the 9X8 after initial testing, a position that stretches back to the announcement of the project in November 2019.
The plan was for Peugeot to join the WEC full time at the start of the…
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