The fastest lap time scored by the Graff-So24 Oreca 07 was cancelled last night after a decision by the race stewards.

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The Team Peugeot TotalEnergies Peugeot 9X8 Hypercar prototypes are about to make their debut in competition at the 6 Hours of Monza, fourth round of the 2022 FIA World Endurance Championship, and the team is hoping to gain priceless new information throughout its first participation.

Remember, the Peugeot 908 LMP1 made its debut at the temple of speed in April 2007 at the 1000 km of Monza. Now the 9X8 will take the stage for the first time at the 6 Hours of Monza this weekend.

This first foray into competiton signals the end of an intense Peugeot 9X8 testing campaign at several European circuits. These last few weeks, the team has been carefully developing its game plan. Simulator sessions were organised at Satory in order to determine energy management strategies while the drivers focused on circuit characteristics. A final shakedown was executed in Spain at MotorLand Aragón where the milestone of 15,000 testing kilometers was reached. The team also took some time to carry out a 36-hour endurance test!

Now, on to the reality of racing. Upcoming rounds will allow Team Peugeot TotalEnergies to collect a great deal of information toward the car's continued development. The French manufacturer is embarking on a quest for performance with the 2023 season and the 24 Hours of Le Mans in mind.

The driver line-ups for the 6 Hours of Monza are as follows: the #93 will be shared by Paul di Resta, Mikkel Jensen and Jean-Eric Vergne, and the #94 will be driven by Loïc Duval, Gustavo Menezes and James Rossiter. The latter explains his team's goals for the race: "To have a clean race weekend, to go through all the processes with the team and to make sure that we continue to improve. We want to show the WEC, the world and all our fans exactly how hard we’ve been working on the 9X8 and on the project to go and conquer Le Mans in 2023."

Paul di Resta believes Peugeot needs to learn where the 9X8 stands relative to its competition: "The most important things are to evaluate our level of performance and how we all work together as a team. It’s just massively exciting seeing a car arrive for a proper race weekend on a track."

Mikkel Jensen: "Whenever Peugeot has been involved in endurance racing, it was with the clear goal to win. Yes, flat out or nothing. Full effort! It feels the same this time."

Will Team Peugeot TotalEnergies pull off the enormous feat of winning its first Hypercar race? Find out on Sunday 10 July!

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2019 ELMS Champions IDEC Sport returned to winning ways for the first time since the 2019 4 Hours of Portimão, with Paul Loup Chatin taking the chequered flag at the end of a drama filled 4 Hours of Monza.  The French driver finished ahead of the #65 Panis Racing and the #9 Prema Racing Orecas in a race that saw four Safety Car and one Full Course Yellow periods.

However, a 10 second post race penalty for the #9 Oreca (Stewards Decision no24) saw Prema Racing demoted to 5thand the #21 Muehlner Motorsport Oreca move into the final podium position, the Belgian teams first in LMP2, ahead of the #22 United Autosports Oreca.

The LMP3 battle was won by the #13 Euro Interpol Competition Ligier, with Guilherme Oliveira finishing the four-hour race nine seconds ahead of the #6 360 Racing Ligier of Ross Kaiser.

The #2 United Autosports Ligier of Finn Gehrsitz went off track and dropped back down the order with 18 minutes of the race remaining and the leading #10 Eurointernational Ligier of Glenn Van Berlo was handed a drive through penalty in the final five minutes of the race.

Reigning Champions Iron Lynx were the first of the 12 LMGTE cars to cross the finish line with Davide Rigon in the #60 Ferrari 488 GTE EVO fighting his way up the order to take the chequered flag at the home race for the all Italian team.

However, the #60 Ferrari stopped on track and was pushed to the pitlane by the #83 Iron Dames Ferrari, which is a breach of Article 15.1.1 of the 2022 ELMS Sporting Regulations and Article 2.5 of the FIA International Sporting Code (ISC) and was disqualified.The Iron Lynx team have appealed this decision and the LMGTE results remain provisional (Stewards Decision no25).

The #77 Proton Competition Porsche, which finished in second place with Lorenzo Ferrari taking the finish just 0.9 seconds behind the lead car, is now classified as the winner with the no57 Kessel Racing Ferrari in second and the no18 Absolute Racing Porsche in third.

The next round of the 2022 European Le Mans Series will be the 4 Hours of Barcelona on Sunday 28 August.

<a href="https://storage.googleapis.com/doc-prod/PvatVmyIEoBafNCQcg4TEi8J.PDF">CLICK HERE</a> for the provisional result from the 4 Hours of Monza. LMGTE result remains

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The Le Mans Classic is back! Watch live at lemansclassic.com or on YouTube.

The Le Mans Classic has positioned cameras all around the 13.626 km circuit to capture every second of action. The free livestream is to be produced jointly by B-Side, Peter Auto's partner since 2014, and AMP Visual TV, which has provided video of the 24 Hours of Le Mans since 2006.

English-speaking viewers can count on Radio Le Mans commentators Andrew Marriott, Peter Snowdownet and John Hindhaugh to discuss everything that happens on the track this weekend!

Live on <a href="https://www.youtube.com/c/peterautoofficial">YouTube</a> and at lemansclassic.com:

<ul><li>Saturday 2 July from 11:30 to 15:00 then from 16:00 to 21:00 local time</li>
	<li>Sunday 3 July from 08:20 to 10:50 then from 12:00 to 16:00 local time</li>
</ul>For more info on the Le Mans Classic, go to the <a href="https://www.lemansclassic.com/en/">official website</a>.

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The new Porsche Hypercar presented on 24 June at the Goodwood Festival of Speed was given the moniker 963 as a tribute to the marque's rich and remarkable history at the 24 Hours of Le Mans.

With an unrivaled – and who knows, perhaps perpetually unbeatable – track record at the 24 Hours of Le Mans with 19 overall victories and more than 100 all classes considered, Porsche has a knack for celebrating its major anniversaries with wins. The iconic 911 won in 1998 for the marque's 50th anniversary and again in 2018 (LMGTE Pro) for its 70th.

Porsche is known for honouring its legacy at the 24 Hours of Le Mans. In 2015, the 919 Hybrid livery highlighted the 45th anniversary of the manufacturer's first win in 1970. In 2018, Kévin Estre, Michael Christensen and Laurens Vanthoor won the LMGTE Pro class with the "pink pig" livery seen on the 1971 Porsche 917. Now, the 963 Hypercar is set to carry on the prestigious line that catapulted the marque to win record-holder at the race.

<h3>The 956, 962…and 963</h3>

To understand why Porsche has named its new Hypercar the 963, let's go back 40 years. The Porsche 956 was built in 1982 to comply with new prototype regulations called Group C. The factory team went on to score two consecutive wins at the 24 Hours including a stunning hat trick for this car's rookie appearance in 1982.

The official team did not participate in the race in 1984, but Reinhold Joest did clinch his first victory as a team owner with the 956. That same year, a version of the 956 competed in the IMSA in the U.S., renamed the 962 with a modification imposed by the American championship's regulations concerning the position of the pedals, set back behind the axis of the front wheels.

In 1985, the 956 fielded by Joest secured Porsche's 10th overall win at Le Mans, allowing the German marque to surpass Ferrari's record of nine. The factory team returned that same year with three 962s, renamed 962 C for the occasion. At his very first 24 Hours, Hans-Joachim Stuck clocked a breathtaking lap record (3:14.88 at an average 251.712 kph) that remained unbeaten for 32 years (Kamui Kobayashi and Toyota). At the 1985 running of the race, the German driver finished third along with Derek Bell, and Jacky Ickx made his final appearance in the race in 10th place. In 1986 and 1987, Stuck and Bell earned back-to-back wins with the 962 C, joined by American driver Al Holbert who debuted the 962 in the U.S. in 1984.

During the same period, the 962 made its mark at two major American endurance races with four consecutives victories at the 12 Hours of Sebring (1985, 1986, 1987 and 1988) and three at the Rolex 24 at Daytona (1985, 1986 and 1987). Next year, the 963 will carry on this magnificent legacy by participating in both the FIA World Endurance Championship and the IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar Championship with three teams confirmed so far: the official Porsche Penske Motorsport team in both, JOTA in just the FIA WEC and JDC Miller in only the IMSA.

Porsche is sure to be laser-focused in 2023 on winning the 24 Hours of Le Mans the year of the race's 100th anniversary, and increasing the marque's win record to an whopping 20. Will the 963 achieve the same glory as the 956 did 40 years ago? The answer to come under the chequered flag on 11 June 2023.

PHOTOS (Copyright - PORSCHE AG): The red and white livery of the Porsche 963 harkens back to the 917 (#23) driven by Hans Herrmann and Richard Attwood (from left to right above) first-time overall winner for the marque at the 1970 24 Hours. Originally, black only figured on the racing number. At centre, the Porsche 962 C shared by Derek Bell, Al Holbert and Hans-Joachim Stuck, winner at Le Mans in 1986.

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The Graff-So24 team thus loses the LMP2 pole position, initially taken by Tristan Gommendy. The stewards ruled that Vincent Capillaire failed to to stop at the scrutineering light for weighing of his #39 Oreca 07 during Qualifying 3. The penalty means that the French team moves down from ninth on the starting grid to the 22nd position.

As a result, TDS Racing&rsquo;s #28 Oreca 07 takes the LMP2 class pole and will start from the fifth row on the grid at 15:00 on Saturday.

PHOTO: LE MANS (SARTHE, FRANCE), CIRCUIT DES 24 HEURES DU MANS, THIRD ROUND OF QUALIFYING, 13 JUNE 2019. The #28 Oreca 07 driven by Lo&iuml;c Duval, Fran&ccedil;ois Perrodo and Matthieu Vaxivi&egrave;re takes pole after the stewards&rsquo; decision.

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