Watch the Peugeot 9X8's First Official Laps

One year ago, Peugeot revealed its 9X8 Le Mans Hypercar with no wing and no plans to add one later. The car's debut was delayed by a long and rocky development, but it is finally homologated for FIA World Endurance Championship competition in its racing form and will finally debut this weekend at Monza. That means today's practice sessions were its first public laps in anger, which means we finally have on-board video of the most interesting new sports car of a very interesting new generation of sports cars.

So far, the 9X8 seems to be working just fine. Peugeot's half-season WEC effort is largely in preparation for a fight for a Le Mans win and championship next year, but the new car already looks up to the task of fighting for overall wins against the pair of Toyota GR010s that won Le Mans in each of the past two years.