In a highlight on this year’s agenda of centennial celebrations, Bugatti Automobiles S.A.S. presented four Bugatti Veyron specials at Villa d’Este Concorso d’Eleganza. These one off models are reminders of Bugatti’s glorious motor-racing history which played a central role in popularising and ultimately establishing the myth which the brand continues to enjoy to this day.
2009 Bugatti Sports Cars Veyron Type 35 Grand Prix Edition
The Bugatti brand is almost inextricably linked to the Type 35. The Type 35 Grand Prix was by far the most successful racing model. The unmistakable radiator grille and eight-spoke aluminum wheels of the Type 35 have become defining features of the Bugatti automobile. In its day, the Grand Prix was also well ahead of its time in terms of engineering ingenuity.
The the front axle layout of this automobile, which, for motives of weight minimization, is hollow, is a true masterpiece of craftsmanship and turned into deemed nothing less than revolutionary. Its springs were surpassed thru the axle to produce a high degree of balance. The Grand Prix?S brake drums had been integrally outfitted into its lightweight aluminum wheels. Unfastening the principal wheel nut allowed the wheel to be effortlessly eliminated within a depend of seconds and the brake to be uncovered. This turned into a important gain on the pit prevent.
The blue racers made their first appearance on the race tune on the Grand Prix held through Automobil Club de France in Lyon in 1924. In the last decade that followed, they remained almost unchallenged way to state-of-the-art manufacturing efforts, their light-weight design and smooth managing. During that ten-12 months era, they won nearly 2000 races ? More than every other model ever has.
Grand Prix races were highly stylish occasions in the ones days, and Bugatti changed into now not the simplest brand with large hobby in substantiating the recognition of its merchandise by triumphing races. In truth, in the Twenties, Europe became often host to some of special races in exclusive nations on a single weekend. The teams installation with the aid of exclusive car manufacturers competed at famous race circuits consisting of Targa Florio, Le Mans, Monza and Spa in addition to in Rome, Nice, Antibes or even a village in Alsace.
The essential reason Bugatti gained such an vast quantity of races ? At the back of which successes the emblem was additionally able to forge its photograph ? Changed into the fact that Bugatti sold now not handiest its ordinary sports and touring cars to personal shoppers, but its racing cars too. Thus it become that its automobiles took element in this type of large variety of Grand Prix occasions.
Tradition being what it's far, the Bugatti Veyron Specials constructed to mark the one centesimal anniversary of the logo feature the racing shades of the respective countries: blue for France, purple for Italy, inexperienced for England and white for Germany. Each of the four new Veyrons has a specific ?Predecessor? Inside the form of an unique Grand Prix Bugatti on which it turned into modelled.
These four historical race vehicles constitute the technology of mythical Bugatti Grand Prix racers which have been piloted by means of global-well-known race-automobile drivers and which scored countless racing victories inside the Nineteen Twenties and ?30s. Each of the four Veyron Specials is called after a Bugatti race-automobile driver of the Nineteen Twenties and 30s. Jean-Pierre Wimille has given the blue Veyron its call, Achille Varzi the red one, Malcolm Campbell the inexperienced one and Hermann zu Leiningen the white Veyron.
“We have put a lot of effort into translating colour and material, the defining characteristics of our historic role models, into the designs of the modern-day Veyrons,” explains Alasdair Stewart, Director Sales & Marketing at Bugatti Automobiles S.A.S. “We have taken extreme care to match the original colours of the original race cars, exterior and interior”
On Sunday, the four historic racing Type 35s and the four modern-day Centenaire Edition Veyrons will be exhibited alongside each other in the park of Villa Erba for the first and only time.
Ahead of that presentation, Bugatti will on Saturday be prominently represented in the park of Villa d’Este by a special-display-class exhibition of models, which will serve to portray the 100-year history of the brand. Bugatti’s participation in the classic Concorso d’Eleganza Villa d’Este at Lake Como will be the second highlight event to mark the carmaker’s centennial celebrations after it took part in the International Geneva Motor Show in early March.
This latest event will be followed by the Pebble Beach Concours d’Elegance in California in mid-August and the main celebratory event on 12 September in Molsheim (Alsace), which has been the home of this unparalleled automobile brand for 100 years.
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