Sure, said Red Bull, and do you want to use our driver? May 15, 2013 Loeb's Pikes Peak-bound Peugeot shows off its final race livery. Last year, the 12.42-mile course was finally paved for the top. La Peugeot 208 T16 rejoindra ainsi d'autres véhicules emblématiques de la collection de Sébastien Loeb, comme la Citroën C4 WRC avec laquelle il avait remporté le rallye d'Alsace en 2010 (et son septième titre de champion du monde), ou encore une McLaren MP4-12C, avec laquelle le pilote tricolore avait entamé sa reconversion aux courses en circuit. Peugeot 208 T16 Pikes Peak, the performance car used by Sébastien Loeb to compete in the famous Pikes Peak International Hill Climb competition, has a 3.2-liter 24-valve twin-turbo V6 engine, center mounted, that develops 875 horsepower and 900 Nm (664 lb-ft) of torque. “Seb is memorising the route through YouTube.”. "Loeb's car is ridiculous." The 208 T16 will attack the world famous hill climb with an impressive 1016bhp/ton power-to-weight ratio, an identical figure to the 275mph Hennessey Venom GT … “It will depend on weather conditions, but it is very possible to break the course record.”, By how much? Sébastien Loeb a remporté aujourd’hui à bord de la Peugeot 208 T16 Pikes Peak la 91ème édition de la course de Pikes Peak International Hill Climb, avec un impressionnant chrono de 08’13"878, explosant littéralement le précédent record détenu par Rhys Millen !. BBC Studios is a commercial company that is owned by the BBC (and just the BBC). Kris Meeke tests Peugeot 208 T16 Pikes Peak -- Top Gear Magazine. Loeb says the 208 T16 Pikes Peak has "the downforce of a Formula 1 car, the wide tires of an endurance racing prototype and a differential, like a WRC car. Which is roughly the same as a nuclear warhead. Sebastien Loeb prepares for the Pikes Peak International Hill Climb in this video. Peugeot 208 T16 Pikes Peak : Loeb's weapon. It is based upon the Peugeot 208 road car and is the successor of the successful Peugeot 207 S2000 . Sébastien Loeb - The 208 T16 Pikes Peak - King of the Peak. It weighs just 875kg, which - as the maths-inclined amongst you will have deduced - equals a power-to-weight ratio of 1bhp per kilogram. “Le Mans, it’s 24 hours, but at Pikes Peak it could be just… eight minutes?”, So there you go. No money from the licence fee was used to create this website. With a short-geared six-speed sequential box, it’ll hit its 150mph maximum in seven seconds flat. 2:23. Cars. Venir avec la Pikes Peak ici, devant mon public, me réjouit. The profits we make from it go back to BBC programme-makers to help fund great new BBC programmes. The Peugeot 208 T16 is an R5 rally car developed by Peugeot Sport. “It was a win-win situation,” grins Famin. The T16’s 875bhp V6 is a 3.2-litre Peugeot endurance block, boosted to stratospheric horsepower courtesy of a modified version of the turbocharger from the team’s 908 diesel Le Mans racer. Where most motorsport series are bound by a Bible-thick book of rules, the laws for the ‘Unlimited’ class at Pikes Peak (in which the 208 is competing) run something like this: DO YOUR WORST. Logos © 1996. How the New Hypercar Class Differs From LMP1, Porsche 911 Buyer Guide: Each Generation Explained, The Lamborghini Huracán Evo Spyder Is Manic Fun. This service is provided by Disqus and is subject to their privacy policy and terms of use. BBC is a trademark of the British Broadcasting Corporation. …that vast rear wing. By r&t staff. Loeb's Pikes Peak-bound Peugeot shows off its final race livery. The short film Climb Dance documents Ari Vatanen’s heroic 1988 hillclimb in his 405 T16, an epic demonstration of oversteer that generated perhaps the finest five minutes of car-based YouTube excellence in history. Photos of Sebastian Loeb's Peugeot 208 T16 Pikes Peak rally car on a practice run in France. RIDERS MATCH - Best Extreme Videos. Road & Track participates in various affiliate marketing programs, which means we may get paid commissions on editorially chosen products purchased through our links to retailer sites. Famin smiles. This content is created and maintained by a third party, and imported onto this page to help users provide their email addresses. Where Does Scott McLaughlin Go From Here? 7:18. UK-based Fifteen Eleven Design begins work on classic 1970s Porsche, Baby Bertha is the Vauxhall worth travelling around the world for, Watch The Stig unleash 603bhp of turbocharged V8 fury. Peugeot has confirmed technical details of the 208 T16 Pikes Peak - a car tested for the first time by Sebastien Loeb last week. Décidément, la Peugeot 208 T16 Pikes Peak alimente l'actualité automobile ces derniers temps. 2:41. Sébastien Loeb teste la Peugeot 208 T16 au Mont Ventoux. You may be able to find more information about this and similar content at piano.io, This Is Toyota Gazoo Racing's Le Mans Hypercar, 10 Racing Crashes That Defined a Year of COVID-19, Volkswagen Ends its Participation in Motorsports, W Series Joining F1 Could Be a Watershed Moment. And they don’t get much more proper than nine-time WRC champ Seb Loeb, given special dispensation from his Citroen rally team to pilot the Peugeot up Pikes. Un cheval par kilo ! Based on the design of the road-going 208, the Peugeot 208 T16 Pikes Peak is built for competing at the Pikes Peak International Hill Climb. This is the Peugeot 208 T16, the 875bhp nutjob aiming to not just beat but OBLITERATE the Pikes Peak hillclimb record this June. Why hasn’t Bugatti built a luxurious super saloon yet? PEUGEOT 208 T16 R5 ex Sebastien Loeb Racing Moteur 550 km Pont 550 km révision 60 Km Boite 50 km neuve acheter chez 3MO Caisse 550 Km Full evo Calculateur avec mise a jour soft 09/2020 Amortisseurs révision soben Habitacle : Harnais Sparco 6 points 2024 Bacquet Sparco Carbone 2024 Reservoir FIA décembre 2021 Radio WRC avec Bluethooh Sac à Casques Historique : Voiture ex Loeb … Click through for the exclusive inside story and watch the car materialise before your very eyes…. Exclusive: up close with Loeb's Peugeot 208 T16. Rhys Millen in a massively modified Hyundai Genesis last year. 10:01. 0:56. We ask Famin what he’s hoping for when the T16 tackles Pikes on June 30 this year. And this week, Top Gear was the first magazine in the world to get up close to the wildest race car of the decade.We spent a day at Peugeot Sport’s top secret bunker (just off the N118 on the west side of Paris) watching the T16 transform from a box of expensive components into the fastest hillclimb car on the planet. Your information will be used in accordance with our privacy policy. Pikes Peak - La fiche technique de la Peugeot 208 T16 de Sébastien Loeb. Photos of Sebastian Loeb's Peugeot 208 T16 Pikes Peak rally car on a practice run in France. Goodwood Road & Racing. But Pikes has changed since Ari’s sideways adventures. The Renault 5 is back! « Cette 208 T16 Pikes Peak est une fusée! You’ll remember Peugeot has history with Pikes. “We want first place and a very good time,” he says. If all goes well on June 30 - and there’s lots that could go wrong at Pikes, from ice to dust storms to, y’know, falling off the side of the hill - Seb Loeb and the T16 could nail a time UNDER NINE MINUTES. Loeb et la Peugeot 208 T16 Pikes Peak aux Grandes Heures Automobiles "Turckheim est l'une des plus belles courses de côte et qui plus est, elle a lieu en Alsace, chez moi. You heard it here first, internet…. Enormous as it is, the T16’s engineers tell us the wing only contributes a modest amount to the car’s insane levels of downforce, the majority of which is generated by its pair of monster underbody diffusers. The short film Climb Dance documents Ari Vatanen’s heroic 1988 hillclimb in his 405 T16, an epic demonstration of oversteer that generated perhaps the finest five minutes of car-based YouTube excellence in history. We may earn a commission through links on our site. Peugeot says the 208 makes more downforce than even the 908 racer, which is an astonishing figure from such a short, squat car. Peugeot 208 T16 Pikes Peak - Goodwood Festival of Speed. Au début, tu t’assommes à chaque changement de rapport. So the T16 won’t be sideways - Peugeot engineers say it’s set up to be ‘neutral’ - but it will be mighty fast. La Peugeot 208 T16 Pikes Peak se met à nu. All of which means some truly stratospheric performance figures. Look at all these tremendous old Renault 5s, Meet ‘Hercules’, Pogea Racing’s mad Abarth 595, Here’s how folk customised their Rolls-Royces in 2020, 14 things you need to know about living with a Porsche Taycan. Sébastien Loeb a fait l'acquisition de la Peugeot 208 T16 avec laquelle il s'est imposé à Pikes Peak en 2013. “Like Le Mans, you prepare for six months for just one race,” he says. “You can learn a lot through videos,” says Famin. Sebastien Loeb will be running the Peugeot 208 T16 Pikes Peak in the Unlimited Class at this year's Pike's Peak Hill Climb. 3:25. The T16’s 875bhp V6 is a 3.2-litre Peugeot endurance block, boosted to stratospheric horsepower courtesy of a modified version of the turbocharger from the team’s 908 diesel Le Mans racer. This website is made by BBC Studios Distribution. The T16 measures two metres across, with a wheelbase of just 270cm. Peugeot 208 T16 série limitée L’annonce a pris tout le monde de court : Peugeot reviendra l’an prochain en WRC, avec une 208 T16, pilotée par Sébastien Loeb. So how is he learning the course’s 156 turns? 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It’s a 208 in name and silhouette only: beneath its carbon fibre bodywork lurks a bespoke tubular spaceframe chassis. It is fitted with the rear wing found from the Peugeot 908, and a twin-turbocharged 3.2-litre engine which produces around 875 bhp. Peugeot 208 T16 Finale de la Coupe de France des Rallyes Marseille 2017 Well, the course record stands at 9m41.6s, set by Rhys Millen in a massively modified Hyundai Genesis last year. Unlike his WRC exploits, Loeb will tackle Pikes without a co-driver - the T16 is a strict single-seater. Pikes Peak 2013 : premiers tests pour Sébastien Loeb et la 208 T16… The steering, brakes and much of the rear suspension are also borrowed from the 908, as well as…. Sebastien Loeb a Pikes pikes en 8:13:878 avec la Peugeot 208 T16. Sébastien Loeb and The Peugeot 208 T16 Pikes Peak Set New Record - PRExtreme TV Channel (HD) PRMotorTV. The Peugeot 208 T16 Pikes Peak is a rocket! And that’s not the only element of the T16 harvested from Peugeot’s Le Mans project. Caradisiac. Elle a une telle puissance! Peugeot says the T16 will get from 0-62mph in 1.8 seconds, with 125mph following just three seconds later. That's the message our Pikes Peak photographer, Jamey Price, texted to me earlier this week after he watched the Frenchman practice in his 875-hp Peugeot 208 T16 … ERC Victories [ edit ] “Our calculations showed the fastest car would be four-wheel drive, with a short wheelbase for agility, but wide for stability…”. Sébastien Loeb e la 208 T16 Pikes Peak polverizzano il record della Pikes Peak ! " Cette 208 T16 Pikes Peak est une fusée " à déclaré Sébastien Loeb après avoir fait ses premiers tours de roue au volant de la lionne. Such is the advantage of not having to adhere to any regulations. Peugeot 208 T16 Pikes Peak – Engine & Design. How fast? Please read Top Gear’s code of conduct (link below) before posting. Our product picks are editor-tested, expert-approved. A proper piece of machinery, then, and one requiring a proper driver. 2:44. By clicking below you agree to receive news, promotions and offers by email from Top Gear and BBC Studios. Loeb will be driving the Peugeot 208 T16 in the Unlimited Class. Loeb wasn’t confirmed to drive the T16 until March, when Peugeot approached Red Bull about potentially collaborating on the Pikes project. So, in the space of four months, with just 12 people, Bruno’s team designed and built a car specifically for the Pikes Peak Unlimited class,and the 208 T16 was born. Sport Auto. Motorionline. crash71100. #10 Cadillac Wins Petit Le Mans As Leaders Wreck. “The blank sheet of paper was certainly a reason to go to Pikes,” Peugeot Sport director Bruno Famin tells Top Gear. onyoube. The premier category is the ‘Unlimited’ class in which Sébastien Loeb’s Peugeot 208 T16 Pikes Peak will compete.