{"id":41647,"date":"2014-07-07T19:49:27","date_gmt":"2014-07-07T18:49:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.motorsportmagazine.com\/issue_content\/peugeot-to-build-diesel-le-mans-challenger\/"},"modified":"2019-07-20T11:57:55","modified_gmt":"2019-07-20T10:57:55","slug":"peugeot-to-build-diesel-le-mans-challenger","status":"publish","type":"issue_content","link":"https:\/\/www.motorsportmagazine.com\/archive\/article\/august-2005\/9\/peugeot-to-build-diesel-le-mans-challenger\/","title":{"rendered":"Peugeot to build diesel Le Mans challenger"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>In a surprise move, Peugeot has announced its intention to return to the Le Mans 24 Hours in 2007 with a radical turbo-diesel sports-prototype<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>The French marque has long been at the cutting edge of diesel road car technology and already runs the RC Cup in France, for Diester-fuelled sports-prototypes. The news arrived in the same week as the event organisers announced a new ecology award, the Automobile Club de France Trophy, based on fuel consumption and limits of pollution.<\/p>\n<p>The return to endurance racing follows the manufacturer&#8217;s decision to pull out of the World Rally Championship at the end of &#8217;05. According to Peugeot Sport boss Jean-Pierre Nicolas, a switch to rally-raids had been considered along with a World Touring Car Championship programme. But the chance to return to Le Mans, the scene of victories in 1992 and &#8217;93 with the 905 Group C car, proved too tempting.<\/p>\n<p>In recent years Peugeot has given some support to Henri Pescarolo&#8217;s eponymous squad for its attack on the twice-round-the-clock classic, but it is widely believed that this new project will be an in-house effort. Alongside Peugeot, Nissan, Mazda and Toyota are tipped to return to top-level sportscar racing following Audi&#8217;s confirmation that it is building a successor to the all-conquering R8.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":739,"featured_media":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","categories":[],"tags":[22030,36567,180,34926,339,278,249,228],"issue_decade":[121591],"issue_year":[121592],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.motorsportmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/issue_content\/41647"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.motorsportmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/issue_content"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.motorsportmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/issue_content"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.motorsportmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/739"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.motorsportmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=41647"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.motorsportmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/issue_content\/41647\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":236241,"href":"https:\/\/www.motorsportmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/issue_content\/41647\/revisions\/236241"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.motorsportmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41647"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.motorsportmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41647"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.motorsportmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41647"},{"taxonomy":"issue_decade","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.motorsportmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/issue_decade?post=41647"},{"taxonomy":"issue_year","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.motorsportmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/issue_year?post=41647"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}