Chiron [Official] Bugatti Chiron

[Bucketslash11]

Your comments are eerily similar to YT bench racer commenters. I’m not sure what your point is here frankly, mentioning a bunch of years old vaporware.

It’s been stately officially numerous times that this is a prototype of an upcoming iteration. Guinness has not been mentioned by Bugatti or anyone because they were not in attendance yet. This was...

if it was a youtube comment he would've already mentioned how the koenigsegg jesko would beat this easily

the koenigsegg fanboys are so annoying

 

[Joelpeyeye]

Your comments are eerily similar to YT bench racer commenters. I’m not sure what your point is here frankly, mentioning a bunch of years old vaporware.

It’s been stately officially numerous times that this is a prototype of an upcoming iteration. Guinness has not been mentioned by Bugatti or anyone because they were not in attendance yet. This was...

 

[Yaz]

I thought the stacked exhausts were unique to the Centodieci?
Also love the holes on the fenders

 

[KiwiRob]

the Bugatti Veyron won the Guinness record but the modified chiron did not

Neither did your modified Ford GT, speed records are set with a two way average.

 

[WBarnes]

Must have close to 1800hp.

 

[tristatez28lt1]

1600hp it stated

 

[mihc]

 

[KiwiRob]

The longer tail should become standard on all Chirons, or at least an option for deep pocketed owners.

I also wonder if the spoiler is deployable, not needed for a v-max run but it looks like it's still part of the car.

 

[emve]

1600hp it stated

I reckon this particular example had 2000+ hp, as you can see in the video, it did 300-400 in around insane 10s, standard Chiron needs about 18s. Do you believe 1600hp instead of 1500hp and few aero tweaks are sufficient to cut the time to half almost ? I don´t.

 

[martinbo]

From TopGear.com:

11 crazy facts from Bugatti’s 300mph run
You’ve seen the video. Now chew on the mind-numbing stats behind the incredible feat

1. 304.773mph
   Or, 490.484 km/h in Euro-speak. That’s the big number recorded by a sealed GPS box in the modified Chiron and the final top speed Andy Wallace managed on 2 August, becoming the first hypercar to break 300mph. That’s over three times the top speed of a Suzuki Jimny.
2. 31mph
   The increments that part-time land pilot and full-time dude Andy made while attempting the record. He worked his way up to the top speed from 186mph in these small steps to make sure all the conditions were right and the Chiron was optimally balanced in terms of lift and downforce.
   “Even at the first attempt I felt this would work. The Chiron ran perfectly and the track and weather conditions were ideal,” Andy said after.
3. 136 metres in one second
   That’s the ground the Chiron was covering per second at full-whack. Or one mile every 11.8 seconds. Or 5.1miles a minute. See, after one lap to condition the Chiron, Wallace accelerated out of Ehra’s monster north curve to 120mph to reach top speed on the 5.4-mile straight. At a precisely defined braking point, he decelerated the Chiron back to 120mph to drive through the opposing south bend. He had a distance of two kilometres in which to do so. Breezy.
4. 70 seconds
   How long Andy had the throttle pinned for. “I went at full throttle from the start for approximately 70 seconds. It was important for me to be out of the bend at 200 km/h in order to reach top speed on the straight. That required the very highest level of concentration.”
5. 61mph
   How much faster the Chiron went than the McLaren F1 at Ehra back in 1998. Which, coincidentally, was also driven by Andy Wallace. See, Andy likes driving fast. And he’s rather good at it. The secret? Balls of tungsten carbide.
6. 1,578bhp
   How much oomph was needed from the 8.0-litre, quad-turbo W16 unit – nicknamed Thor – to punch through the air at over 300mph. In a testament to Bugatti’s engineering, the gearbox remained standard – as did the all-wheel-drive system.
7. 25cm
   The record car’s growth spurt compared to a ‘normal’ Chiron. Its purposeful intent is amplified by laser-controlled ride height, set significantly lower to reduce drag, giving the impression that the car is melting into the tarmac. In addition to aerodynamic changes at the front, rear and side to reduce drag, the rear wing and airbrake have been removed and replaced with a static unit recessed into the tail.
8. 4,100
   How many times the tyres rotate a minute. See, tyres have always been the limiting factor for high-speed runs. Michelin provided the boots for the 300mph run, opting for a set of Michelin Sport Cup 2 tyres that had been reinforced with stronger metallic threads in the carcass. They were subjected to extensive test bench trials at speeds of up to 317mph in the USA before the run, with each tyre being X-rayed to detect any air pockets or defects. Nobody wants a tyre whoopsie at over 300mph as you’d need more than a dustpan and brush to clear it up.
9. 50
   The metres above sea level where Bugatti did the run. The 5.4-mile long straight is a smidge above sea level. Unlike higher-altitude high-speed tracks (or roads like the one used by Koenigsegg in Nevada) this has certain drawbacks. Due to the higher air density, the vehicle has to apply more force as at 300mph it’s like driving against a concrete tower block. “Air pressure, air density and temperature are very important for high-speed driving and can make a difference of up to 25 km/h, depending on the altitude,” says Bugatti boff Stefan Ellrott.
10. 16mph
    How much faster Bugatti needed to go than Koenigsegg to hit 300mph. Seems simple, right? Add a bit more power, lose a bit of weight, tidy up the drag and bingo, right? The reality is very different. At these speeds, the additional performance needed to gain even 1mph is huge. The velocity of the vehicle and the forces acting on every element of it grow exponentially as the speed increases. Take the wheels, for instance: the rotational force on them creates a gyroscopic effect that could overload the regular steering system (configured for 260mph) to such an extent that if you turn, you may end up unable to straighten again.
11. 84
    The years to the very day that Malcolm Campbell became the first man to drive a car over 300mph, averaging 301.337mph thanks to a 2,300bhp 36.7-litre supercharged Rolls-Royce V12. How things have changed.

 

[Joelpeyeye]

 

[DjordjeC63]

Lol, they had to use modified car.
They are butthurt.

 

[Rolf]

They done with chasing speed records after this. Personally I think they right, they proved themselves and become the first car maker to reach 300mph, which is way to fast for any road anyways.

It was fun while it lasted.
In July 2010, Bugatti made history when official test driver Pierre Henri Raphanel set a land speed record with an unrestricted Veyron Super Sport by averaging 267.8 mph (430.9 kph) at Volkswagen's Ehra-Lessian high-speed oval. A few years later, Chinese racing driver Anthony Liu established a record for the fastest open-top production car with the Veyron Grand Sport Vitesse by doing 254.0 mph (408.8 kph) at the same proving ground in Germany.

On August 2, 2019, Le Mans winner and Bugatti test driver Andy Wallace took a purpose-built Chiron to the same track in Lower Saxony and reached a top speed of 304.7 mph (490.4 kph).

You won’t be seeing any other top speed records from Bugatti in the foreseeable future as the company’s president, Stephan Winkelmann, has revealed the Molsheim-based marque is done chasing speed records. Bugatti’s goal was to be the first automaker to break the 300-mph barrier, and now that they’ve done it with the longtail Chiron, the quest is over. From now on, “we will focus on other areas,” says Winkelmann.

 

[Joelpeyeye]

In the Bugatti brand they believe that their record will last many years or that it is impossible to break it but it is a matter of months

 

[DjordjeC63]

I'd like them to be smashed both by SSC and Hennesey.

 

[martinbo]

I'd like them to be smashed both by SSC and Hennesey.

Why?

General question not directed at anyone... why are some so dead against lauding Bugatti's achievement of producing not only the fastest car in the world but one of such extreme quality and craftsmanship?
Look, let's take the socio-economic dubiousness of such preposterously expensive machinery out of the discussion. Clearly, to achieve such stratospheric performance, massive financial and technological resources are required.
490 km/h at sea level - it's nothing short of astonishing. It's the 300 mph mark in a car that is made for public consumption, albeit for an exceedingly wealthy, very select few.

We can go on to debate how many horses this Chiron has or the fact that it may be a subtly enhanced prototype of a soon-to-be released long-tail edition (no one ever complained about a long-tail McLaren being made) but so what?
It is what it is: an iteration of a very specific production car concept of which nothing else like it exists. It still is the quad-turbo, W16 juggernaut with the same AWD system made totally in-house. It is an equivocal demonstration of the latent capability in the engineering of the standard product - what more do people want?

If Hennessey, Tuatara or Koenigsegg pull off such feats similarly in "special factory prepared" examples to "optimally leverage factors influencing performance" no one says anything. Double standards.

 

[MR Simon]

In the Bugatti brand they believe that their record will last many years or that it is impossible to break it but it is a matter of months

the goal was to become the first to break 300mph and they did just that. it doesn't matter if it gets broken in hours/months/years.

 

[Bucketslash11]

If Hennessey, Tuatara or Koenigsegg pull off such feats similarly in "special factory prepared" examples to "optimally leverage factors influencing performance" no one says anything. Double standards.

i'd say the biggest double standard is koenigsegg, koenigsegg can make a claim and it'll automatically be accepted as the truth by a lot of people, like people forget to think about burden of proof whenever they make a claim

 

[Bucketslash11]

the goal was to become the first to break 300mph and they did just that. it doesn't matter if it gets broken in hours/months/years.

the official Guinness record for street legal cars is still up for grabs

 

[DjordjeC63]

the goal was to become the first to break 300mph and they did just that. it doesn't matter if it gets broken in hours/months/years.

Yes for you that have miles per hour, but for someone that has kilometers per hour magic number is 500km/h.

@martinbo because they knew Chiron couldnt beat Agera RS record so they went to modify/tune stock car to achieve something.
If Mercedes T80 was finished this tuned Chiron result wouldnt even exist lol (since both are prototypes).