Bugatti’s Senior Take a look at Driver Places Ending Touches On Silver Centodieci

A beautiful Bugatti Centodieci painted silver just lately rolled out of the automotive producer’s French manufacturing facility however earlier than it did, it wanted to obtain a last sign-off by Bugatti take a look at driver Steve Jenny.

Jenny is Bugatti’s most senior take a look at driver and has pushed greater than 350,000 km (~217,000 miles) within the Veyron, Chiron, Divo, Centodieci, and the one-off La Voiture Noire. He’s tasked with guaranteeing that every car drives like a Bugatti ought to, all whereas being free from imperfections. He has pushed roughly 800 Bugatti autos at his time with the carmaker.

For this explicit Centodieci, completed in EB110 Argent paint, Jenny took it on his normal route across the house of Bugatti in Molsheim which takes round 5 hours and covers at the least 300 km (186 miles). The route contains twisting mountain roads, the autoroute, and low-speed crawls by means of small Alsatian villages, all designed to copy the circumstances {that a} buyer could encounter.

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It is usually the job of Bugatti’s take a look at driver to detect even the slightest of discrepancies between the ten Centodieci fashions heading to manufacturing. Past being examined on the road, the Centodieci is put by means of numerous efficiency assessments at a neighborhood airport runway. These embody excessive velocity slaloms, emergency lane adjustments, and emergency braking procedures. Jenny additionally analyses the fabric finishes and bespoke touches utilized to every Centodieci.

Every Bugatti should previous an exhaustive checklist of standards earlier than it will probably transfer to the following stage the place the gearbox filter is changed, the ultimate set of wheels is fitted, any imperfections are corrected, and the automotive is taken on one last 50 km (31-mile) take a look at drive.

“There is no such thing as a compromise within the creation of a Bugatti, particularly one as uncommon and distinctive because the Centodieci,” Jenny described. “Since solely 10 will ever be created, the alternatives to drive such a unprecedented automotive are so uncommon that we should redouble our consideration through the last drive. Making certain constant perfection throughout every Centodieci, and each Bugatti, is extraordinarily necessary.”