Both Peugeot 9X8 on top of FP1 timesheet with Paul di Resta quickest in #94 and Jean-Eric Vergne in fourth with sister #93.

.Another poor weekend for Team Peugeot TotalEnergies at Lone Star Le Mans with only one car ending twelve behind privateer teams!

Alpine is fourth in the 2024 FIA Hypercar World Endurance Manufacturers Championship after the 6 hours of Spa behind the difficult to access Porsche, Toyota and Ferrari still ahead of BMW, Peugeot, Lamborghini and Cadillac!

Ferrari #50 disqualified, #5 Porsche 963 and #2 Cadillac V-Series.R #2 in front row. Three Porsche 963 in row two and three.

Kevin Estre did beat his own fastest lap driven yesterday to set the definitive Benchmark for the three free practices. Nice session this morning for Peugeot 3rd and BMW 6th of combined practices.

The Peugeot Sport team has adapted the aerodynamics of the PEUGEOT 9X8. At 11 am, Team Peugeot TotalEnergies unveiled the 2024 PEUGEOT 9X8, which will make its competitive début at the 6 Hours of Imola (21 April).

André Lotterer in #5 Porsche 963 is leading at mid-race ahead of #93 Peugeot 9X8 with Jean-Eric Vergne at the time. Two Porsche 963 are following. Cadillac #2 is fifth.

Chevrolet’s new Corvette Z06 GT3.R secured its first pole position with Tom Van Rompuy and Porsche’s Manthey customer team first row for the new LMGT3 class with Alex Malykhin in the #92 Porsche 911 GT3 R

Matt Campbell took the first Porsche Penske Motorsport pole position in FIA WEC with the #5 Porsche 963, 0.413 sec. faster than Nick De Vries with Toyota GR010 Hybrid #7.

Alex Lynn with the #2 Cadillac Racing V-Series.R ran fastest during practice 3 which puts the Cadillac in P2 of combined practices. Aston Martin topped the LMGT3 class.

Estre (Porsche 963), Vergne (Peugeot 9X8), Button (Porsche 963) and Lynn (Cadillac V-Series.R) are the top 4 of Thursday practices. Both Ferrari top LMGT3 class.

With three consecutive podium finishes Ferrari has increasingly bridge the gap with Toyota. Fifty years after its last Le Mans win, is Ferrari going to win again for the centenary of the 24 Hours of Le Mans?

TOYOTA GAZOO Racing is dominating the World Endurance Manufacturers’ Championship by scoring almost all points attributed so far if it was not for the pole (1 point) won by Ferrari at Sebring. After 5 consecutive wins at Le Mans, three victories and two doubles this season, Toyota GR010 are definitively the favourites for the centenary of the 24 Hours of Le Mans.

The first Safety Car was released during the third lap thwarting Ferrari team strategy of mounting rain tires as the track dried out during that SC period. Both Toyota GR010 Hybrid dominated the 6 hours of Spa-Francorchamps with #7 winning after leading 89% of the laps covered. Sister #8 moved up from P36 to end second.

The 6 hours of Spa-Francorchamps qualifying started wrongly for Toyota Gazoo Racing with Brendon Hartley crashing his #8 GR010 Hybrid in the Raidillon straight out of the pits on cold tires. The session was animated by Giovinazzi with Ferrari #51 who qualified first at the end of the session until his fastest lap was canceled for track-limits violation. Kamui Kobayashi will start from pole tomorrow at 12:45.

Despite a wet track at the beginning of third free practice, many drivers improved their times from the day before on a track that gradually dried out. Brendon Hartley (Toyota #8), James Calaldo (Ferrari #51), Kamui Kobayashi (Toyota #7) and Nico Müller (Peugeot #94) and Richard Westbrook (Cadillac #2) are the top 5 of the combines free practices.

Thursday practices were run in clear conditions with Toyota #8 dominating their rivals in the morning practice by more than 1.6 sec. and Ferrari managing to tie the game, even beating the time set by the #8 during the second session.

The 6 Hours of Portimão saw five different Hypercar manufacturers represented in the top 5: Toyota, Ferrari, Porsche, Cadillac and Porsche. Four cars had technical problems and one did not finish. We review each car race and share drivers comments after the race.

Toyota Gazoo Racing and United Autosport dominated their respective class. In LMGTE AM, the battle was fierce with several leaders; Corvette Racing clinch a second victory after Sebring.

Brendon Hartley did set the fastest lap of 6 Hours of Portimao qualifying to head another Toyota Gazoo Racing 1-2. Mirko Bortolotti in LMP2 and Ben Keating in LMGTE AM are the winners in their respective classes.