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Le Mans win for a Peugeot Diesel?
By Stéphane Schlesinger on 15 June 2005 | 
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This is the French carmaker’s new goal for 2007, as they told it yesterday. At the end of 2005, they will withdraw from the WRC and completely dedicate themselves to make an HDI engined-car win. They will also take part in the Le Mans Endurance Series at Spa, Silverstone, Nürburgring and Istanbul.
The feasibility of the project still has to be confirmed early 2006, but then, the first prototypes should be on track late 2006. Besides, they will be fitted with a particulate filter called DPFS (Diesel Particulate Filter System). Thus, Peugeot seems to confirm a trend they had initiated with the diesel RC prototype in 2002.
This is not the first time a carmaker wants to win Le Mans with technological devices of its own: in 1991, Mazda had won the famous race with a car propelled by a rotary engine, which was prohibited the following year…
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