WEC. Mixed results for Peugeot at the 6 Hours of Imola

The weekend got off to a bad start. In qualifying, the two French hypercars failed in the 14th and 15th places. Despite these disappointing results, the drivers of the French team had high hopes at the beginning.

If one managed to escape the mayhem of the first turn, number 94 was not so lucky. Paul di Resta was involved in an accident between Alpine, BMW and Isotta Fraschini. Which sent him into a spin and destroyed the model.

“It was difficult. I took the worst time on the slicks in the rain. It was a little crazy with the cars on the gravel traps”said Stoffel Vandoorne, driver of the #94, at the end. “Getting the light tires up to temperature was difficult. We didn’t have anything to play with, so we tried different things to collect data for the future. »

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In another car, in the rain, Jean-Éric Vergne won his duel against the #2 Cadillac and passed the #38 Porsche to take ninth place at the end of a thrilling race. “My start on the wet track was very difficult, I thought I lost the car a couple of times on the straight. My pace was good afterwards, I managed my wet tires well on the dry track. The team made me enter the pit at the right time to put on some good tyres”and JEV scans.

With this result, Peugeot scored its first points of the year. But this remains far more important than the second place lost to Qatar a month ago.