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Concerning the Pescarolo 908, I've read Bruno Famin, Peugeot Sport technical boss, say, on EI, that the car will be a 2008 chassis with all the 2009 pieces except the most recent engine evolution. He says that over a lap, the gap should not be more than 1 second.
Interestingly, Peugeot won't be changing the 908's aero for this year, they don't know what the extra 30 kilos are going to do to the car, they are scheduling an unplanned 30 hour test to find out, they don't plan on beefing up suspension parts unless they break in the test and they're debuting a new gearbox casing this week-end.
Concerning their performance, it's quite obvious that they're not pushing and that this year they don't care about the championship and about ultimate pace. The other teams are trying for real. Peugeot have given their inexperienced drivers most of the track time this week-end and the car will probably lap quicker in the race tomorrow. You see what their state of mind is when they talk about testing parts and almost wanting the car to break here so they can repair it and take their time to understand the problem in the middle of the race, or not wanting to remove the air conditioning this weekend even if they were sure it would not be needed for cockpit temperature.
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Oh and there's also a quote of Famin saying: "The 2011 regs will make the gap with our opponents much closer because of the regs" So he seems to recognize it could be tighter.
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