- The W16-powered track-only hypercar accelerates at a rate that boggles the mind.
- F1-style carbon-carbon brakes allow the Bolide to stop on a dime.
- The French automaker says the Bolide delivers almost 3,000 kg of downforce at top speed.
Bugatti has built some of the most remarkable cars ever conceived over the past 20 years, but the Bolide represents a new extreme for the carmaker. It is a track-only weapon, limited to just 40 units worldwide, and looks more like a spaceship than a normal hypercar. It’s also capable of lapping a circuit quicker than any other Bugatti to come before it.
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Just how quick is the Bugatti? Well, this video, produced by popular YouTuber Misha Charoudin, provides us with an awesome look at just how capable the Bolide is. It makes Porsche 911 GT3s and GT3 RSs seem slow.
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Charoudin was invited out to the Nurburgring Grand Prix circuit to jump into the passenger seat of the Bolide for a couple of hot laps. There were heaps of GT cars from Porsche on the circuit at the same time, and if you know anything about the GT3 and GT3 RS, you’ll know that they are among the fastest production cars around a circuit. They have nothing on the Bolide.
Spaceship Speeds
During the hot laps, the Bugatti can corner harder than the Porsches, gains time in the braking zones, and absolutely destroys them out of the corners, building pace so quickly that it truly boggles the mind. At the end of the Nurburgring GP track’s relatively short main straight, the Bolide hits 300 km/h (186 mph) without breaking a sweat. At one point during the second lap, it even blasted past a McLaren like it was standing still.
While the Bolide could no doubt threaten some lap records at many of the world’s most famous racetracks, Bugatti itself has yet to publish any official lap times for the car. When it was still a concept, the French automaker claimed simulations had shown it could lap Le Mans in 3:07.1 and the Nurburgring Nordschleife in 5:23.1, just three seconds behind the Porsche 919 Hybrid Evo. However, the production-spec Bolide has less power and weighs more. Nevertheless, it might be able to dip below the 6-minute mark.
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