Capgemini has signed a multi-year partnership with Peugeot Sport to provide the PEUGEOT 9X8 FIAWEC program team with advanced digital tools. Peugeot Sport is poised to make its return totopflight endurance racing this summer. It will capitalize on Capgemini's data and AI applications expertise to take the performance of its revolutionary hybrid Hypercar forward, both in the simulator and on the racetrack.

This new partnership also embodies the commitment of both companies to the energy transition. Pooling the capacity of Peugeot Sport and Capgemini's digital tools will enable the team's engineers, drivers and mechanics to deepen their understanding of the 9X8, while also accelerating and boosting its competitive potential. In particular, as software development becomes a key factor given that the car's hardware specification will be frozen for a period of four years, in keeping with the FIA World Endurance Championship's Hypercar regulations.

With Peugeot Sport at a crucial stage in the car's development, this fundamental technological support is a sign of how motor racing is evolving. Furthermore, the improvements introduced by Peugeot Sport and Capgemini, to boost the new Hypercar's performance in the FIA World Endurance Championship, will also go on to benefit PEUGEOT road cars. The disruptive vision inherent in artificial intelligence fits perfectly with the spirit that guided the design of the PEUGEOT 9X8.

The ability to analyze the car's behavior in real time opens up a whole new world of opportunities for the team. Not only does it complement the fast-evolving technologies that already exist in motorsport, but it will also contribute to the ongoing quest for ever-higher performance, allowing for a much wider spectrum of race scenarios to be taken into consideration.