This should have been the year when Peugeot were crowned kings of the sportscar world.
In 2008, the French manufacturer did what no one else has done this millennium, and produced an LMP1 car that consistently left the category benchmark Audi team trailing, without the aid of the rules quirks and politics behind previous fleeting interruptions of Audi's dominance.
There was no doubt that the 908 HDi FAP was the fastest prototype of the season, a clean sweep of pole positions and victory in 80 per cent of the championship rounds proved that.