Peugeot leaves the program Le Mans

In a terse statement, Peugeot announced the immediate end of your program to Le Mans, thus eliminating the renewed Olivier Quesnel, amassing more than a mythical race victory in the French success in 2009.

The World Endurance Championship today met a strong blow with the announcement of Peugeot's leave with immediate effect, the Le Mans project, also withdrew from that championship, leaving Audi to talk alone.

According to the statement issued, "the decision was taken in the context of a difficult economic environment in Europe, Peugeot has chosen to concentrate its resources in sales in 2012 and trona successful product launches, scheduled for this and future years." It thus evident that the plan proposed by Philippe Varin, CEO of Peugeot in 2011, said that going to reduce costs by 800 million euros, went beyond the 6,000 redundancies, eventually also with the sports program of Peugeot's Le Mans.