Stoffel Vandoorne will rejoin Peugeot’s World Endurance Championship squad in 2026 after a short departure, changing Jean-Eric Vergne within the workforce’s line-up.
Vandoorne had stepped down from his position with Peugeot after the penultimate spherical of the season at Fuji in September, forward of his deliberate swap to Genesis’ new LMDh programme in 2026.
Nonetheless, his take care of Hyundai’s luxurious marque is known to have fallen by means of on the last-minute, prompting him to return to the Stellantis model with which he had been racing since 2023.
He’ll take the place of one other Peugeot long-timer Vergne, who will step again into the position of improvement driver because the French squad explores plans to construct an all-new prototype to exchange the 9X8 LMH.
This association will final solely a yr, with Vergne – who has three podiums with the marque to this point – returning to racing in 2027. The 35-year-old will mix his new position with one other marketing campaign in Formulation E, the place he’ll characterize the newly-rebranded Citroen (beforehand DS Penske) workforce.
The information of Vandoorne changing Vergne was confirmed in a social media put up on Tuesday forward of the WEC 2025 title decider in Bahrain this weekend. The eight-hour race can even entail Theo Pourchaire making his Hypercar debut aboard Peugeot’s #94 entry alongside Malthe Jakobsen and Loic Duval.
Whereas the precise make-up of the driving force combos is but to be revealed, Peugeot has now basically confirmed the six drivers that shall be racing for the workforce subsequent yr. Duval, Jakobsen, di Resta and now Vandoorne have been retained from 2025, with Pourchaire and Formulation E star Nick Cassidy becoming a member of the squad as newcomers.
Mikkel Jensen, who completed second with Vergne and di Resta at Fuji, will depart the outfit after Bahrain and will be a part of McLaren’s upcoming LMDh programme in 2027.
Peugeot is seventh within the producers’ standings forward of the ultimate spherical of the season, forward of newcomer Aston Martin and simply three factors behind BMW.
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