Racing Veyron

[Rob282828]

Bugatti have a production car land speed record, but other car manufacters are threatening to take that record away. SSC are making that new Tuwatura thing and Koeingsegg are building the Agera R which is supposed to do speeds in excess of 270mph.

So why don't Bugatti make a 'racing' Veyron? Here's my idea. Take a Veyron Supersports and strip out the entire interior. Then add a new lightweight steering wheel and one lightweight bucket seat. This would save a good amount of weight and should improve the speed by a few miles per hour. Remove the lights and all the other unnessacary things; make it a track only race car like an FXX.

As soon as the works done, take it to the track and improve on the record. Job's a good 'un.

What's wrong with my idea and why have Bugatti not done this?

[Rob282828]

jackh707 said:

How would stripping out interior affect top speed? It wouldn't.

This is what i was thinking.....

[Rob282828]

Maybe i shouldn't have wrote about the lightweight steering wheel.

However if removing weight won't affect top speed then surely it'll have a positive impact on handling and lap times? This is the Veyrons main problem.

[Rob282828]

David87 said:

Quite a lot.

Okay i think i realise my idea was crap now.

[Rob282828]

Pommygranite said:

Where did you get that the handling and lap times is the Veyrons main problem? I'm pretty sure that's not even remotely true.

I've never read its handling is bad or its lap times are slow - that's just what you perceive.

The handling is not at all bad and never are the lap times, but they could be inproved upon with weight reduction and so on.

[Rob282828]

Thanks for all the replies guys, now i can see why this is and isn't a good idea. Couldn't Bugatti do a racing series like Ferrari do with their cars? This would create a little income to help with the production costs. Perhaps a silly idea but i don't know!!