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 real masterpiece of workmanship and turned into deemed not anything much less than modern. Its springs have been exceeded through the axle to supply a excessive level of balance. The Grand Prix?S brake drums have been integrally equipped into its light-weight aluminum wheels. Unfastening the critical wheel nut allowed the wheel to be without difficulty removed within a matter of seconds and the brake to be uncovered. This changed into a important advantage at the pit forestall.
The blue racers made their first look at 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 thanks to state-of-the-art manufacturing efforts, their lightweight layout and easy handling. During that ten-12 months era, they won almost 2000 races ? Extra than some other version ever has.
Grand Prix races have been incredibly fashionable occasions in the ones days, and Bugatti changed into no longer the simplest brand with sizable hobby in substantiating the recognition of its merchandise via winning races. In fact, in the 1920s, Europe became regularly host to a number of exceptional races in unique nations on a unmarried weekend. The teams set up by way of distinctive automobile producers competed at popular race circuits inclusive of Targa Florio, Le Mans, Monza and Spa as well as in Rome, Nice, Antibes and even a village in Alsace.
The principal motive Bugatti won such an enormous quantity of races ? On the lower back of which successes the emblem changed into also capable of forge its photograph ? Became the truth that Bugatti offered no longer most effective its regular sports and travelling automobiles to personal buyers, but its racing vehicles too. Thus it became that its cars took element in this sort of large range of Grand Prix occasions.
Tradition being what it is, the Bugatti Veyron Specials built to mark the 100th anniversary of the brand feature the racing hues of the respective countries: blue for France, purple for Italy, inexperienced for England and white for Germany. Each of the 4 new Veyrons has a selected ?Predecessor? In the shape of an original Grand Prix Bugatti on which it become modelled.
These four historic race cars represent the era of legendary Bugatti Grand Prix racers which have been piloted by means of international-famous race-vehicle drivers and which scored endless racing victories in the Nineteen Twenties and ?30s. Each of the four Veyron Specials is known as after a Bugatti race-car motive force of the Nineteen Twenties and 30s. Jean-Pierre Wimille has given the blue Veyron its call, Achille Varzi the purple one, Malcolm Campbell the green 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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