When Peugeot unveiled the first concept version of its 9X8 Hypercar, it wowed with its wild design and its lack of rear wing. A fixture of racing cars since the ’70s, the rear wing is passé, as far as Peugeot is concerned, because the racing team’s newly unveiled, competition-spec race car also eschews the tall piece of aero design.

This, Peugeot says, is the race car that will make its competition debut at the 6 Hours of Monza on July 10, 2022. The team has confirmed that the lack of wing conforms to the FIA’s Le Mans Hypercar regulations and to its own performance requirements and the car will likely get its downforce from underbody aero elements.

Unveiled today at the Autodromo do Algarve, better known as Portimao, the car’s rear wheels are powered by a 2.6-liter, twin-turbocharged V6 engine that makes 697 hp (520 kW/707 PS), while the front wheels are powered by a high-performance 268 hp (200 kW/272 PS) electric motor.

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The Peugeot 9X8 is 4,995 mm (197-inches) long, making it exactly as long as a Genesis G80. It is also 2,000 mm (79 inches) wide and 1145 mm (45 inches) tall and tips the scales at 1,030 kg (2,270 lbs) despite all of the electric drivetrain equipment.

Over the course of its test process, Peugeot has driven the 9X8 more than 10,000 km (6,214 miles) over 25 test days. That rigorous testing, it says, was necessary to ensure the performance and reliability of the car, and led to it skipping the 2022 running of the 24 Hours of Le Mans (though a stationary version of the car will be displayed at the event).

It will, however, compete in the entire 2023 racing season and Peugeot has every intention of running the 9X8 during the 100th anniversary of the 24 Hours of Le Mans next year. For its first race in July, Peugeot will enter two 9X8s, which will be driven by Paul Di Resta, Loïc Duval, Mikkel Jensen, Gustavo Menezes, James Rossiter, and Jean-Éric Vergne.

“With only weeks to go until its maiden competitive outing at Monza, the PEUGEOT 9X8 has been clocking up the kilometers in testing at a variety of circuits,” said Olivier Jansonnie, Peugeot Sport’s technical director. “At the end of the day, however, there is no substitute for actual racing and we can’t wait to discover the potential of our hybrid-electric Hypercar which was developed in-house to demonstrate our skills in the realm of hybridization and other areas.”