This Amazing Chiron Engine Test Rig Lets Bugatti Simulate The Nurburgring

It's obviously pretty important for Bugatti to make sure its 1500-horsepower Chiron engine can stand punishment, and this test rig lets the W16 powerplant loose on a simulated lap of the Nordschleife

How do you deal with the stresses, crashes and spy photographers that plague the Nurburgring while keeping to your development schedule? Well, it seems Bugatti has an answer: don’t go there at all and just build a test rig to simulate the famous circuit’s demands.

This amazing piece of kit was filmed in action on a TV screen at the media launch of the new Chiron, by Sunday Times journalist James Mills. It’s just a short clip of the beast at work, but it’s a fascinating watch.

The 1500hp lump is fully plumbed in, at which point the simulation can begin, aping the g-forces of a full-bore lap around the ‘Ring and checking for any unexpected oil starvation issues at the extremes.

At the same event, Mills also filmed this second-hand footage of the huge test rig that works the Chiron’s suspension to the limit, making sure that extreme lateral forces don’t break anything. All this effort is astonishing to behold, so behold away!

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Anonymous

When you are buliding really expensive cars too expensive to afford real testing on the Ring…

03/22/2017 - 09:46 |
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Anonymous

In reply to by Anonymous (not verified)

Yeah… when you’re building the world’s fastest road legal hypercars your only track testers are the owners… Luckily there’ll be at least a few people mad enough to haul ass round the ring in a Chiron aiming for less than a 7 minute pass!! Schmidt would be proud!

04/11/2017 - 18:04 |
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Zubayer Rezoan

Wow! So fast I can’t see sh*t :/

03/22/2017 - 09:51 |
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03/22/2017 - 12:02 |
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Joshua Lue

The..the… the Nurburgring?

03/22/2017 - 09:51 |
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CaptainNutSack

So VW can’t figure out ways to develop small capacity diesels to to be clean but they can throw money at engine simulators for a £2m car, that they then sell at a loss???

03/22/2017 - 09:56 |
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The Chiron isn’t sold for a loss actually,the Veyron was sold at a loss because of all the R&D costs on the new Quad Turbo W16 but now they don’t need to spend too much money on the Chiron in the R&D department

03/22/2017 - 10:25 |
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DL🏁

Next step: setting a 6:52 laptime at the Nurburgring without actually going to the Nurburgring

03/22/2017 - 09:58 |
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Bryan from Philly

It’s cool but this is inevitable….

03/22/2017 - 10:27 |
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They want to know if it doesnt break on the nurburgring

03/22/2017 - 12:02 |
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Deoxide

But when you consider that it drinks its gas quicker than you eating lunch..

There is really no point.

03/22/2017 - 10:53 |
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Anonymous

Was the engine actually running at full race speeds? That would’ve been the real test while also simulating the G-forces

03/22/2017 - 11:11 |
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MKM099

Simulation Ends
Engine- Holy **, what’s the right way up?!

03/22/2017 - 11:18 |
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Anonymous

The thing is to heavy

03/22/2017 - 12:30 |
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