So when Bugatti invited me to drive the $ 2.5 million Veyron 16.4 Grand Sport
Vitesse on a private 4.7 - mile European test track, I figured a new high score was in the bag.
Not exact matches
Alex Iwobi (Arsenal) Andreas Christensen (Chelsea
on loan at Borussia Monchengladbach) Nathan (Chelsea
on loan with
Vitesse Arnhem) Ruben Loftus - Cheek (Chelsea) Demerai Gray (Leicester City) Marko Grujic (Liverpool) Kelechi Iheanacho (Man City) Leroy Sane (Man City) Marcus Rashford (Man Utd) Dele Alli (Spurs) Moussa Dembele (Celtic) Asensio Marco Willemsen (Real Madrid) Leon Bailey (Racing Genk) Bazoer Riechedly (Ajax) Boschilia Gabriel (Monaco) Brandt Julian (Bayer Leverkusen) Carlos Fernández Luna (Sevilla) Coman Kingsly (Bayern Munich) Coric Ante (Dinamo Zagreb) Diawara Amadou (Napoli) Dahoud Mahmoud (Borussia Mönchengladbach) Danilo Barbosa da Silva (Benfica) Dembélé Ousmane (Borussia Dortmund) Donnarumma Gianluigi (AC Milan) Embolo Breel - Donald (Schalke 04) Gabriel Barbosa Almeida (Internazionale) Golovin Aleksandr Sergeevic (CSKA Moscow) Gonçalo Manuel Ganchininho Guedes (Benfica) Halilovic Alen (Hamburger SV) Kovalenko Viktor (Shakhtar Donetsk) Hernández Lucas (Atletico Madrid) Mammana Emanuel (Olympique Lyonnais) Ntcham Jules Olivier (Genoa) Renato Júnior Luz Sanches (Bayern Munich) Riedewald Jairo (Ajax) Rúben Diogo da Silva Neves (Porto) Sanabria Arnaldo Antonio Ayala (Real Betis) Tah Jonathan Glao (Bayer Leverkusen) Tielemans Youri (Anderlecht) Touré Almamy (Monaco)
He spent five years
on loan before eventually sealing a permanent transfer away from the club, including an impressive stint at
Vitesse, where he emerged as one of the most accomplished full - backs in the Eredivisie.
The 20 - year - old — who has featured everywhere from left - back to attacking midfield and can also feature as a striker — scored 17 times
on loan at
Vitesse Arnhem in the 2014 - 15 campaign.
On the back of a 37 goal season for
Vitesse, Bony took to English football like a fish to water and bagged 25 goals in all competitions in his debut season.
Since signing for the Blues in January 2013, Wallace has yet to feature for the Blues due to problems obtaining a work permit, and has spent time
on loan with the likes of Inter Milan,
Vitesse Arnhem and most recently Carpi.
The 18 - year - old has immediately gone to
Vitesse Arnhem
on loan for next season, and joins Lewis Baker, Nathan, and Isaiah Brown at the Dutch side.
On loan at
Vitesse Arnhem in the Dutch Eredivise, Lewis Baker has been at Chelsea since 2005, playing for Chelsea's youth side, Under - 18's, Under 21's and Under 23's.
Baker has been sent
on loan three times to Sheffield Wednesday, MK Dons and
Vitesse.
Kalas is best known amongst Chelsea fans for his performance in the 2 - 0 victory at Anfield during the closing stages of the 2013/14 season, that helped to deny Liverpool the title, but he has otherwise not been close to the first team picture at Stamford Bridge and has previously had a spell
on loan at
Vitesse Arnhem.
At just 23, the Chelsea has never kicked a ball for his parent club since joining in 2011, playing for
Vitesse, Sabadell, Cordoba, Tenerife, and Vitoria
on loan.
The highly rated 18 - year old is currently
on loan with
Vitesse Arnhem in the Dutch Eredivisie, where his performances and seven goals in 24 games has really made people sit up and take notice.
The Ivorian international was coming off the back of impressive spells with
Vitesse and Swansea City, and in his defence, it was the next step up the ladder as it showed his ambition of wanting to go
on and win trophies at a big club.
The defender has been
on loan for several years now, and despite impressing in spells at
Vitesse and now Fulham, he has admitted that he probably won't make it to the first team anytime soon.
The 24 - year - old joined the Blues from Porto back in 2013 but has been out
on loan first to
Vitesse, Everton, Bournemouth and Malaga since becoming a Chelsea player.
The guys to watch in this one are
Vitesse's two fullbacks, Tomas Kalas and Patrick van Aanholt, both
on loan from Chelsea.
Bony
on the other hand has proven a big success since making his # 12m move from
Vitesse Arnhem to Swansea City in July 2013, the powerful forward racking up 24 goals in 42 Premier League starts.
The England youth star, who is currently
on loan at
Vitesse, has made just one 15 - minute cameo for the Blues first team to date.
Marco Asensio, Real Madrid attacker, 21 Matthijs de Ligt, Ajax defender, 18 Dele Alli, Tottenham midfielder, 21 Ousmane Dembele, Barcelona attacker, 20 Gianluigi Donarumma, AC Milan goalkeeper, 18 Gabriel Jesus, Manchester City striker, 20 Gustavo Viera, Liverpool (Uruguay) attacker, 17 Maximiliano Romero, Velez Sarsfield attacker, 18 Kylian Mbappe, Paris Saint - Germain striker, 18 Mason Mount, Chelsea attacking midfielder
on loan at
Vitesse, 18 Leroy Sané, Manchester City winger, 21 Vinicius Júnior, Flamengo attacker (owned by Real Madrid), 17
AC Milan are also said to be interested in Yarmolenko and whilst Mourinho does appear keen
on bringing in fresh attacking options it is primarily strikers he would be looking to sign rather than wide players as the Blues boss has those in abundance, so much so that he has opted to loan out Victor Moses and new signing Christian Atsu to Liverpool and
Vitesse Arnhem respectively.
Chelsea's Josh McEachran is currently
on his fifth loan spell, this time moving to Holland with
Vitesse Arnhem, but will he find playing time in 2015/16 after the conclusion of his loan spell?
Matt Miazga
On loan from Chelsea, his
Vitesse side have been struggling the last couple months.
Chelsea In: Asmir Begovic (Chelsea, # 8m), Radamel Falcao (Monaco, Fra,
on loan), Kenedy (Fluminense, Bra, undisclosed), Nathan (Atletico Paranaense, Bra, # 4.5 m), Danilo Pantic (Partizan Belgrade, Ser, # 1.25 m), Pedro (Barceloan, Eng, # 21m), Baba Rahman (Augsburg, Ger, # 12m) Out: Nathan Ake (Watford, loan), Christian Atsu (Bournemouth, loan), Patrick Bamford (Crystal Palace, loan), Petr Cech (Arsenal, # 10m), Didier Drogba (Montreal Impact, USA, free), Thorgan Hazard (Borussia Monchengladbach, Ger, # 5.85 m), Gael Kakuta (Sevilla, Spa, # 2.5 m), Filipe Luis (Atletico Madrid, Spa, # 11m), Josh McEachran (Brentford, # 0.75 m), Nathan (
Vitesse, Hol, loan), Danilo Pantic (
Vitesse, Hol, loan), Oriol Romeu (Southampton, # 5m), Mohamed Salah (Roma, Ita, loan), Marco Van Ginkel (Stoke City, loan), Wallace (Carpi, Ita, loan)
Thomas Bruns got
Vitesse a point
on the road with this curling finish midway through the first half against Zulte - Waregem.
The incident occurred during Sparta's 7 - 0 defeat at
Vitesse Arnhem
on Saturday - with the away side already 3 - 0 down - resulting in a straight red card for the offending player.
The midfielder was sent
on a temporary spell to
Vitesse — who have a thriving partnership with the Blues, helping to develop young talent signed by Roman Abramovich's club — last summer.
Loaned out to both
Vitesse Arnhem and AFC Ajax during his time at Chelsea, Bertrand Traoré impressed, yet, no matter what he did, he never managed to break through into the Blues» first - team
on a regular basis.
Chelsea have announced
on their official website that midfielder Mukhtar Ali has left the club to join
Vitesse.
The Chelsea defender, who is
on a season - long loan at Dutch club
Vitesse, was left off the roster for this month's friendlies against Cuba and New Zealand.
Having beaten Feyenoord so impressively last weekend, it was the turn of frustratingly disappointing
Vitesse to come to the fore again, as Henk Fraser's men surrendered meekly in defeat to Excelsior
on Saturday.
Vitesse suffered their first league defeat of the season
on Saturday despite having all four Chelsea loanees feature for the first time.
Feyenoord Rotterdam 2 - 0
Vitesse Arnhem highlights: Feyenoord Rotterdam continue their slight hope of stealing the Eredivisie title as they grabbed an important victory over
Vitesse Arnhem
on their latest league fixture this past weekend.
Dabo and Miazga retained their places for the league trip back to the Dutch capital
on Sunday to face Ajax, where the odds were upset again as
Vitesse won 2 - 1 to record a league win there for the first time since 2013.
On Wednesday night Fankaty Dabo, Matt Miazga, and Mason Mount for the first time all started, whilst Charlie Colkett came on as a sub, in Vitesse» fixture against Swift Boys in the first match in the defence of the Dutch Cup they famously won in Rotterdam back in Apri
On Wednesday night Fankaty Dabo, Matt Miazga, and Mason Mount for the first time all started, whilst Charlie Colkett came
on as a sub, in Vitesse» fixture against Swift Boys in the first match in the defence of the Dutch Cup they famously won in Rotterdam back in Apri
on as a sub, in
Vitesse» fixture against Swift Boys in the first match in the defence of the Dutch Cup they famously won in Rotterdam back in April.
Vitesse, as the Dutch Cup winners, took
on Feyenoord in their De Kuip Stadium rather than the traditional venue of the Amsterdam ArenA and, like Chelsea, lost
on penalties following a 1 - 1 draw.
Vitesse won 3 - 1 at Roda
on Friday to go top of the league following a 100 % start to the season.
Matic spent a year
on loan at
Vitesse Arnhem, was offloaded to Benfica as part of an exchange deal for David Luiz, and was then brought back last January for a # 21m fee.
Charlie Colkett, however, is chasing a continental adventure after splitting» 16 - 17 between Bristol Rovers and Swindon; a proposed move to Spain fell through in January due to FIFA rules
on representing more than two clubs in the same season, and he's reported to have turned down a switch to
Vitesse, but his playing style is perfectly suited to playing overseas.
He certainly looked good at
Vitesse Arnheim last season
on loan after joining Chelsea from Porto the year before.
The 22 - year - old is currently
on loan at Chelsea's feeder club
Vitesse Arnhem for a second season in a row.
Although 150 miles per hour is more than twice as fast as most people travel
on the highway, Acela Express trains can not compete with their European and Japanese cousins: the British / French / Belgian Eurostar, the German ICE train (Inter City Express) and the Japanese Shinkansen routinely reach up to 186 miles per hour, and the French TGV (train grande
vitesse) travels at up to 200 miles per hour.
No, of course not, nothing
on four wheels is, but the
Vitesse is the most talented and dramatic incarnation of the Veyron so far.
As with every previous «Legends» models, this car is based
on the Bugatti Veyron Grand Sport
Vitesse.
Undoubtedly if you set a standard Rover
Vitesse Sport against a standard Subaru Impreza WRX, the
Vitesse Sport would come up trumps
on that circuit (dry of course!)
The record they're here to beat — an average lap speed of 102mph — was set by legendary moustachioed rally driver Tony Pond in a «standard» Rover 827
Vitesse in 1990 and recorded for posterity
on VHS.
If you're not up
on your Bugatti nomenclature, the Grand Sport has a removable roof and the
Vitesse has the more powerful engine (as does the Super Sport coupe), so the Grand Sport
Vitesse is the convertible with the extrasaucy engine.
We can say that the
Vitesse corners in a satisfyingly controlled fashion devoid of any
on - the - knife - edge drama of some high - end supercars.
We sincerely hope that script isn't found
on the actual Bugatti Veyron Grand Sport
Vitesse «La Finale.»
A characteristic feature of the Grand Sport are the two air scoops
on the left and right of the bonnet (which were redesigned for the
Vitesse).
Fortunately for those of a green persuasion there aren't enough Veyrons
on the planet to make it worthwhile campaigning against the Bugatti Veyron Grand Sport
Vitesse.