Peugeot highlights the digital development of its 9X8 LMH

Peugeot Sport has detailed how, before taking to the track for its pre-homologation test sessions, the 9X8 hybrid hypercar began life as a 51.1GB digital project, made up of 15,267 files stored on a hard drive.

Peugeot Sport’s teams spent two years modeling and simulating the car, utilizing existing software – adapted where necessary to suit the project’s specific requirements – as well as programs developed entirely in-house from scratch. “One of our strengths is being able to create the tools ourselves to shape the design of the components that we need,” explained François Coudrain, powertrain director of Peugeot Sport’s WEC program.

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