Sentences with phrase «bugatti race»

The 18/3 Chiron is named after Bugatti race driver Louis Chiron, while the «18/3» prefix stands for the engine's 18 cylinders distributed into three banks of six cylinders each.

The 24 Hours of Le Mans is contested on the high - speed 8.5 - mile Circuit des 24 Heures du Mans, which includes portions of the purpose - built Bugatti race circuit and two - lane country roads.

The followup to the Bugatti Veyron will be called the Chiron, named after Louis Chiron, a Bugatti race car driver who won nearly every major grand prix in the 1920s and 1930s.

From French esoterica and farming vehicles to Bugatti race cars, from American muscle to microcars and mopeds, from military effluvia to pristine examples of the French, German, and English mainstreams of yesteryear.

Bugatti Veyron Centenaire — 2009: Produced to coincide with the 100th anniversary of the company, the car is finished in a combination of matte and gloss versions of iconic Bugatti racing colours — blue, cream, red and green — with polished aluminium.

Louis Chiron, born in Monaco and one of the most famous and successful Bugatti racing drivers, won in a newly developed Bugatti Type 51.

This was then followed in September by the EB 18/3, named after former Bugatti racing driver Louis Chiron, at the IAA in Frankfurt.

(Your letters and comments are always welcome) Goose the throttle a bit and the sounds of this 4C with its racing exhaust is of a Bugatti racing bike, or some kind of, well, race - car.

Bugatti named the Chiron in honor of Bugatti racing driver Louis Chiron.

The previous limited edition Veyron Legend series was dedicated to Bugatti racing driver Jean - Pierre Wimille.

Not exact matches

And he might be right, but in this race, while we're just servicing our engines regularly, adding an air intake or maybe purchasing a small turbo charger — other teams are buying Bugatti Chirons, and Pagani Zondas.

It's named after Louis Chiron, a racing driver who competed for Bugatti in the 1930s and who also holds the record for being the oldest Formula 1 driver to start a race.

The Bugatti Type 37A is a modified and evolved version of the Type 35, Bugatti's most successful racing model.

The company tried rebounding in the 1950s, beginning with a new Type 251 race car, but it didn't meet its expectations and Bugatti ceased automobile production operations shortly after.

Simon Moore and Alessandro Silva investigate the first major race in Rome, the scene of the maiden victory for a Bugatti Type 3.

Raced by a French hero, gifted to a car - mad Belgian royal and now preserved in remarkably original condition, the Bugatti known as Grand - Mère is one of the greatest sports cars from Molsheim.

Taruffi's racing career Part 2 — Charlie Rous concludes his article on the famous racing driver with an account of the years 1934 to 1950 / Our anniversary competition — Enter our motoring quiz competition and you could win a special day at the National Motor Museum / 1929 Sunbeam special — An enthusiastic report from David Hawtin on this exciting20 hp non-standard Sunbeam / The Lea - Francis story 1924 - 37 — Michael Worthington - Williams continues with part 2 of his history of the Coventry make / VSCC's December driving tests — This annual event is described by Tom Thelfall in his Diary of a dilettante / Type 35 Bugatti — The Editor writes about his encounter with a superb example of the archetypal Bugatti / 1908 TT: The» 4 - inch» race — The story of this early event with a curious name is recounted for us by Bryan Goodman / 1939 Lancia Aprilia — Zoe Harrison talked to the proud owner of this far - ahead - of - its - time Lancia / Shaft - drive C.N. — The early history of G.N. and the cars that were not propelled by chains.

Michael Worthington - Williams explains / The life and times of Dorcas I — In the first of a three - part series on the Glegg brothers» Dorcas specials, Graham Skillen summarises their first efforts / French racing engine designers: 1914 and after — Sandy Skinner looks at the wartime careers of Verdet, Gremillon, Birkigt and Bugatti / Back on the Road — Michael Ware visits the sole - surviving Carrow and learns about its recent restoration

Raced by a French hero, gifted to a car - mad Belgian royal and now preserved in remarkably original condition, the Bugatti known as Grand - Mère is one of the greatest...

Better still, Mate Rimac has an even greater desire to one day produce a car that isn't taking part in the performance arms race with Bugatti, Koenigsegg et al — the new Alpine A110 and products from Lotus both came up in conversation.

Road Rage — Roger Bell does battle with an unspoiled example of Aston Martin's 1950s warhorse the DB3S / Bugatti Type 46s Exposed — Another in our exclusive series of James Allington colour cutaway drawings this time with descriptive text by the author / Nearly Great part II — HRG authority Ian Dussek concludes his enthralling two - part article on the Twin Cam with his driving impressions of a rare survivor / Imperial Splendour — Walter Chrysler's 1930 Imperial was hardly radical but was the epitome of sound luxury car design / The Eternal Bridesmaid — Jan Norbye feels Benz deserves more laurels than it usually gets / Glorious Goodwood — Seen through the lens of renowned racing photographer Alan Smith / Distant Memory — Michael Worthington - Williams digs deep to research the histories of three obscure but tantalising British marques of the 1920s.

Stefan Marjoram was there with his camera and sketchbook / «One pump led to another...» — Michael Ware visits Alan Chandler's collection of petroliana and learns about his approach to restoration / Bugatti - Maseratis — With the help of rare illustrations, Simon Moore describes several examples of racing Bugattis converted in period to Maserati power

So was Renault, as Igor Stuifzand explains / / In Flower power, Giles Chapman remembers the enterprising brothers Neville and Raymond Flower, who gifted the Frisky microcar to the world and came very close to putting Egypt on wheels / / Simon Moore and Alessandro Silva investigate the first major race in Rome, the scene of the maiden victory for a Bugatti Type 3.

The name «Chiron» comes from the French racing driver Louis Chiron, who won several grand prix races for Bugatti in the 1920s and the 1930s.

Special eight - spoke wheels were commissioned for the car to match the design Ettore Bugatti created for some of his early racing cars.

The North Carolina auction also features more muscle cars than you can shake a stick at, among other supercar rarities such as: a Bugatti Veyron; James Hunt's McLaren M26 race car; a number of NASCAR racers; a Lexus LFA and even more.

The image of Bugatti's tiny cars flitting among and beating fourteen - and seventeen - liter racing cars at the beginning of the last century resonated with my barely teenage heart, and I've loved small cars ever since.

The very car won three F1 races that year and was flanked by a 1931 Bugatti Type 50 and a 1964 Ferrari 275 GTB on Fiskens» stand.

the only downside is in a drag race but thats it it completly humiliates anything around track.also another downside is it is not as comfterble as the bugatti but thats it.

Bugatti is the latest automaker to craft a virtual racing car for the Gran Turismo video game series.

Bugatti built just seven Type 18 vehicles between 1912 and 1914, which used a 5.0 - liter four - cylinder engine that could take the racing vehicle to a then unheard - of 100 - mph top speed.

With a heavy reliance on carbon fiber in the Chiron's monocoque, rear end, underbody, lighting trims, and the exterior shell, Bugatti claims its rigidity matches LMP1 race cars that compete at Le Mans.

The Bugatti Vision Gran Turismo car is said to be less fanciful than some of the other digital creations in the Gran Turismo series — we're looking at you, 2,590 - hp SRT Tomahawk — and to reflect a vehicle that could actually be driven on a real race track.

This particular model celebrates the life of Bartolomeo «Meo» Costantini, a close friend of company founder Ettore Bugatti, and head of the race team for eight years.

Now the race is on for 300mph, with Bugatti working on a faster Chiron, Hennessey poised to unleash its Venom F5 and Koenigsegg throwing down a marker with its remarkable Agera RS, which nailed a 277.9 mph average with a peak speed of 284.55 mph.

Mullin also has two very rare cars being shown at the Pebble Beach Concours d'Elegance: a 1905 Leon Bolle (which had a top speed of somewhere around 30 mph in its racing days) and a 1951 Bugatti 101C which is the second of seven ever built and the only 101C to be equipped with a supercharger.

He began racing here in 1979 and has returned this year with his 1925 Bugatti Type 35, which was originally raced in the 1920s by the famous Czechoslovakian racer Madame Eliška Junek.

Naturally, Bugatti bills the concept as «the brand's tribute to its great racing tradition of the 1920s and 1930s,» as well as its victories in the 24 Hours of Le Mans.

A few weeks ago, Bugatti announced that it would be kicking off a series of special edition Veyron models that celebrate some of racing's greats.

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Bugatti, Duesenberg, Alfa Romeo, Mercedes - Benz, and Miller built successful racing cars with high - performance dual overhead camshaft straight - eight engines in the 1920s and 1930s.

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De Dietrich did not approve of Bugatti putting all his energy into race cars.

The Veyron EB 16.4 is named in honour of Pierre Veyron, a Bugatti development engineer, test driver and company race driver who, with co-driver Jean - Pierre Wimille, won the 1939 24 hours of Le Mans while driving a Bugatti.

The commentary focused on Bugatti's «amazing technical achievement» versus the «non-gizmo» racing purity of the F1.

While we know that the Rimac Concept One can outrun a LaFerrari as well as the quickest Teslas in a drag race, it was time to see how the world's most advanced electric hypercar stacks up against the mighty Bugatti Veyron on track.

In fact, that's the point of drag racing: spec sheets be damned.To wit, a stock Bugatti Veyron and...

The first example of six editions is the Jean - Pierre Wimille, tribute to the Bugatti's two - time Le Mans 24 Hours race winning champion, Jean - Pierre Wimelle.

The machine behind the achievement was the Bugatti Veyron Grand Sport Vitesse clocking a speed of 408.84 km / hr driven by a Chinese racing driver Anthony Liu.

According to the Chinese race driver Anthony Liu, the Bugatti Veyron GS Vitesse is comfortable and stable even at speed more than 400 km / hr.