WM P76
The WM P76 was a sports car prototype , the 1976 to 1978 of Welter Racing at the 24-hour race at Le Mans was used.
After the WM P69 and the 70, the WM P76 was the third prototype that Gérard Welter developed for his racing team. With the P76, the French racing team also wanted to achieve its major goal of participating in the Le Mans 24-hour race for the first time. Welter, who worked as a vehicle designer at Peugeot , was able to use the wind tunnels at his employer for his design. The result was a compact GTP mid-engined vehicle powered by a 2.7 liter Peugeot V6 engine . For Welter, the first year at Le Mans was a year of learning, so only one prototype was used at the Sarthe. Guy Chasseuil ,Claude Ballot-Léna and Xavier Mathiot started the race from 38th place on the grid and retired after 125 laps with an irreparable leak in the fuel tank.
In the same year, Xavier Mathiot and Didier Pironi failed in their attempt to qualify the car for the 500 km race in Dijon . In 1977 the P77 was already used in Le Mans parallel to the P76 . Max Mamers and Jean-Daniel Raulet achieved the first finish for a Welter racing car in Le Mans with 15th place.
In 1978 , Marianne Hoepfner and Christine Dacremont, a women's team, competed in the long-distance classic. The last use of a P76 ended prematurely after an overheated cylinder.