Bugatti Veyron: Sheep in wolf's clothing???

Same was with the McLaren f1, it was never intended to be a race car, only the ultimate car for the road. (Whether it made its goal is up to individual ideas of a "perfect road car"). SO to answer the question, it has never been entered or won any type of race.

That being said, the McLaren owners created such a demand to race the car that the company produced racing F1s to meet the demand. Only time will tell if the same will happen with the Veyron.

 

I have a hard time seeing the Veyron being raced at all. On the other hand there is always the R8.

 

It was more the factory trying to get rid of all those chassis' by any means ...

 

Veyrons too heavy to race.

 

I still wouldn't mind entering one in a local hillclimb race ... woot!

 

Bench racing? Or...... Viper Venom 1000 vs Bugatti Veyron straight line race?

 

I assume you saw the Road and Track; 0 to 200 article ?

To me this is not true racing.
Add braking, cornering, and controlability over the course of half an hour and we get to racing.

 

What about the Enzo, the F50? IMO, if you make it into a racer, you lose what makes it a Veyron. Just look at the Porch 959 Comfort vs. Sport models. The Sport models weigh less, are faster, but also lack the technology that made the 959 a 959.

Nope, the customers wanted a racing F1 and told McLaren 'with you support, or not'.

 

Race isn't everything... Race cars are far from road cars anyways...

 

Maybee so with the kind of cars you and I have owned, but I'd warrant theres quite a lot of skill involved in launching a car with upwards of 1,000HP.

 

There are plenty of clips of the Veyron in the Prescott hillclimb on youtube... plenty fun to watch

 

The FXX and F50 GT

 

Actually it takes none at all.

Place left foot on the brake. Rev engine to 5K. Place both hands on the wheel. Remove left foot and plant right foot to the floor. The G forces will effect your vision for a beat but if you relax you'll be fine. 10.5 seconds later you'll be crossing the 1/4 mile marker. The electronics will take car of everything including shifting for you.

 

Sounds boring

 

+1/-1

 

but definitely worth a go a couple of 1000 times.

am yet to hear a car journo/owner/person who has driven the thing to say it's a pile of garbage .

check out what tiff says on 5th gear.....

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VQ2BMFgmGNM

on the track....

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AnAaKlWqTco

lets reserve judgement until we turn the key .

 

To quote Tif (?)
To enjoy a Veryon you need to be rich but not a very good driver.
Give me a GT2.

 

It's a VERY impressive bit of Kit.

Regards

 

recently i saw quite a few veyrons on the streets of london especially with the arab's yearly pilgrimage with their supercars from the gulf to london for their summer break. and i think the veyron is THE DADDY.

 

hmmmmm,

 

he's a decent driver

could still kill you pretty easily

man after my own heart

 

In May this year a standard Veyron smashed the old Bugatti record at Prescott speed hillclimb in the UK! Read here:
http://www.bugatti.com/en/home/news.html?newsId=2&displayYears=2007

And a couple of vids:

http://www.evo.co.uk/videos/planetevovideos/209175/bugatti_veyron_at_prescott_hill_climb.html
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EYX2NnlSFgA

Best

Carsten

 

Thats a pretty big misquote there! He said you don't have to be a very good driver, whereas say, put a rich man in a top fuel dragster, and see if they can fully put its power down!

 

so when and where did these two race? super secret racing league?