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The Bugatti Type 32, commonly called the Tank de Tours, was a streamlined racing car built in 1923.
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The race was won by " Williams " ( pseudonym of William Grover-Williams ) driving a Bugatti Type 35B painted dark green ( what would erroneously become referred to as British racing green ).
Cars such as the Bugatti Type 35 were almost equally at home in Grands Prix and endurance events, but specialisation gradually started to differentiate the sports-racer from the Grand Prix car.
The Czechoslovak driver Prince George Christian of Lobkowicz died when his Bugatti Type 54 crashed in the southern hairpin.
1933 Bugatti DOHC straight-8 in a Bugatti Type 59 | Type 59 Grand Prix motor racing | Grand Prix racer.
Bugatti experimented with straight-8 engines from 1922, but in 1924, he introduced the 2 L Bugatti Type 35, one of the most successful racing cars of all time, which eventually won over 1000 races.
The first Donington Park Trophy race was held on 7 October 1933, and the 20-lap invitation event was won by the Earl Howe in a Bugatti Type 51.
In 1956 he drove the Bugatti Type 251 in the French Grand Prix, becoming the last driver to represent the famed marque at a Grand Prix race.
Bugatti created a total of three four-wheel-drive racers, the Type 53, in 1932, but the cars were notorious for having poor handling.
He owns a 1962 Ferrari 250 GTO, two Ferrari 250 Testa Rossas, three 1996 McLaren F1s ( one of them an ultra-rare F1 LM ), a Mercedes 300SL Gullwing, a 1929 Blower Bentley, one Bugatti Type 57SC Atlantic, a Porsche 997 GT3 RS, a Bugatti Veyron, a 1930 Mercedes-Benz CountTrossi SSK ( aka " The Black Prince ") a 1938 Alfa Romeo 8C 2900B Mille Miglia., a Lamborghini Reventón and the rare Reventón Roadster.
He is the owner of a number of rare automobiles including a Type 57 Bugatti, a 1932 Phantom II Thrupp & Maberly, a 1934 Hispano-Suiza J12 Van Vooren Cabriolet, a 1969 P400 S Miura Lamborghini and a Rolls-Royce Silver Ghost.
They purchased a Mercedes that same year, and then a Bugatti Type 30 which had previously been raced in the French Grand Prix.
With her sights firmly set on winning the 1928 Targa Florio, she acquired a new Bugatti Type 35B to enable her to be on an equal footing with the top male competitors.
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The overall drag coefficient on the standard McLaren F1 is 0. 32, compared with 0. 36 for the faster Bugatti Veyron, and 0. 357 for the SSC Ultimate Aero TT, which was the fastest production car from 2007 to 2010.
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Bugatti is developing its next production model, currently called the 16C Galibier, which is expected to go on sale in 2015.
In late 2001, Bugatti announced that the car, officially called the " Bugatti Veyron 16. 4 ", would go into production in 2003.
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The first race in 1929, was organised by Anthony Noghès under the auspices of the " Automobile Club de Monaco ", and was won by William Grover-Williams driving a Bugatti.
He competed in Grand Prix motor racing, winning the 1927 and 1928 Grand Prix de Boulogne in France driving a Bugatti T37A.
Driving a Bugatti T51, in 1932 he won the La Turbie hill climb, the Grand Prix de Lorraine and the Grand Prix d ' Oran.
The circuit was seen as somewhat boring and was universally unpopular with both drivers and crowds with only a reported 20, 000 attending the race, with some of the drivers reported to have privately wished the race was run on the full 13. 461 km ( 8. 378 mi ) long Circuit de la Sarthe where the 5. 7 km ( 3. 5 mi ) Mulsanne Straight was 1. 3 km ( 0. 8 mi ) longer than the entire Bugatti circuit.
Some of her affairs were brief while others were of longer duration that, beyond the wealthy and powerful Philippe de Rothschild, included members of the European nobility and other personalities such as Henri de Courcelles, Jean Bugatti and Count Bruno d ' Harcourt.
He acquired a Bugatti and joined the Moto Club de Nice for younger competitive automotive enthusiasts.
Other races include the Le Mans Classic, a race for historic Le Mans race cars of years past held on the Circuit de la Sarthe, a motorcycle version of the race which is held on the shortened Bugatti version of the same circuit, a kart race ( 24 Heures Karting ) and a truck race ( 24 Heures Camions ).
* Resides in the Musée National de l ' Automobile de Mulhouse, alongside 41. 110 that the brothers Schlumpf had acquired from the Bugatti estate.
de Dietrich managed an automobile factory in Niederbronn in Alsace, France, and contracted Bugatti to develop new models for him under the Dietrich-Bugatti marque.
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