Peugeot with international line-up in 2025

Peugeot TotalEnergies will bring an international mixed-bag of talent in their two FIA World Championship cars for the 2025 season.

Peugeot 9X8 #93 will be driven by Jean-Eric Vergne and Mikkel Jensen, who will rejoin with Paul Di Resta. JEV and Jensen have been racing together since the very first race that Peugeot TotalEnergies entered back in July 2022 at Monza in Italy. They had the Scotsman as a co-driver back then, but he was then moved into car #94 for the 2024 season. Nico Müller raced with JEV and Jensen in 2024, but he has become a Porsche factory driver, and currently races in the ABB FIA Formula E World Championship.

Car #94 will have Loic Duval, Stoffel Vandoorne, and Malthe Jakobsen as the three drivers. Duval has been racing the 94 car ever since it’s debut, and got Vandoorne as teammate at the start of the 2024 season. Jakobsen has joined the team after being a test- and simulator driver for the past few seasons, turning into a reserve driver. By the way, it’s not the first time that Duval has shared a car with a Dane. He was driving for Audi Sport back in 2013, when he shared the car with Tom Kristensen and Allan McNish, when Dindo Capello decided to retire after the 2012 season. The McNish, Duval, and Kristensen trio won both the 24 Hours of Le Mans and the World Championship in 2013, before McNish retired and was replaced by Lucas Di Grassi – until Kristensen then retired at the end of 2014.

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The reserve driver job has been taken up by Theo Pourchaire, who won the FIA Formula 2 Championship in 2013, beating Frederik Vesti, and spending 2024 doing a mixture of Super Formula in Japan, and the NTT IndyCar Series in USA.

Peugeot TotalEnergies has spent a lot of time preparing for their third full season in the FIA WEC. The team has recently tested in Qatar at Lusail International Circuit, where the opening round of the 2025 will be held as well, in just over six weeks’ time. The team has some mixed memories from the 2024 season, where they were barely two laps away from a podium, but ran out of fuel due to an issue in the pits at their final fuel stop. Car #93 finished the season off on the podium at the season finale in Bahrain, in addition to a fourth place finish at Fuji International Speedway in Japan.

Jean-Eric Vergne and Stoffel Vandoorne will have a date clash between the FIA WEC round in Brazil, and the Formula E round in Berlin, but we have previously seen Peugeot TotalEnergies only running with two drivers, when that was the case in 2024.

The FIA WEC 2025 starts on 28 February, with test sessions in the week leading up to it.

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