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Gianoberto Carlo Rembrandt Ettore Bugatti, said John was the eldest son of Ettore Bugatti and the most gifted of his four children From the late 1920s, John used its own structure and design ideas to exercise more influence on the development of the company located in Molsheim, Alsace.
With German silver arrows that dominates the stage of the Grand Prix Jean convinced his father that Bugatti should develop a sports car that could be used for long distance competitions He suggested that the type recently introduced 57 car its coincident design, could form the solid base to build some winning car Several variants using a special reduced chassis, T57S or surbaiss reduced or low powered with a blown T57C or the compressor motor They are equipped with alloy body magnesium designed aerodynamically and so called Bugatti tanks simultaneously developed his siblings the T59 and ran this car when required by the specific rules of the event cars shared a common engine design architecture, but every version is different in many details and materials Just to confuse s things even they were often generically called the Type 57G.
As if the queue French, tired of being beaten by their German rivals have decided that the Grand Prix of the ACF characterize participation Grand Tourism cars This category includes the definition of a sports car The Germans were uninvited unless they appear with a change in response streamliners team two tanks were assembled for the race to be held June 28 at Montlhéry.
The cars were driven by Sommer and Wimille Veyron Williams Jean Bugatti's influence on the design and the preparation was unequivocal this year at the age of 27 years Jean Bugatti took the day from the day of the company's 8 9 June and the two cars were taken to the track and drove all the 1000 km distance the cars without problems throughout the race with a car recording a fastest lap of 33 134 kph on the second day of practice Pierre Veyron driving section set speedway reserves the circuit record a speed of 208 kph 5215 kph hit on the straight All this was accomplished before Charles Faroux, the legendary french journalist just to make sure the word got out to the Talbot team and Delahaye.
The race was easily won by the Bugatti led by Jean-Pierre Wimille and Raymond Sommer, at an average speed of 125,228 km h in just under eight hours a week later, on July 7, Grand Marne Price organized by the automobile club of Champagne and directed the Reims-Gueux circuit, Wimille won again in 57G to an average of 140,245 km h.
The following year, 4 7 Special 57S45 type tank body streamliner briefly performed before in practice, the Grand Prix at Montlhéry, but surprisingly, it seems that Benoist took the car around the racetrack without formal authorization of track officials, so was quickly disqualified from the Ettore Bugatti race, not one to take a slight light quickly decided not to enter a perceived its cars for the race.
Wimille and Robert Benoist in June, driving a variant type 57SC powered by a supercharged engine producing 200 bhp, won the 24 Hours of Le Mans, the first time that Bugatti had never prevailed in a great sports car race Unfortunately, the race was marred by the death of two drivers in one Pat Briton Fairfield accident and the French Ren Kippeurt collided on lap 8 of the race and were both killed, Kippeurt instantly and Fairfield later due to internal injuries Wimille, who was driving, managed to avoid the carnage.
After proving his point, if need points proving the victory in 1937, Ettore Bugatti said he wouldn t return until his record this year was beaten in 1938 Delage took the win, however, to John was an average lower to convince his father to enter the edition 1939, he finally relented, but Bugatti only participate under the condition that one car had to be input Since there is never more than one winner, a car should be sufficient.
And it would be one against six Bugatti Talbot s three of them 4 to 5 liters, 8 Delahaye 135MS s six, two 3-liter Delage, a majestic cut Alfa 2500SS driven by Sommer, and two super Lagonda V12 May 4 liters designed by a WO Bentley in the disaster second practice session hit when the engine broke down, all seems lost Wimille, Bugatti Veyron and Jean considered abandoning the race, but the chief engineer Robert Auma be had other ideas a call was placed in Molsheim and spare parts were thrown on the track, appropriately by own car railcar improbably Bugatti car is repaired just before the start After the first Delage led by Louis Gerard suffers Wimille engine failure is able to claim ownership Mans Bugatti second and last major victory Wimille would later say that all the cars that had run During his career, he loved the most of the Bugatti race.
Robert Auma be later reported what happened to the Museum Bugatti in Molsheim A mechanic was on a train to Paris with pistons Benoist was sent to the East Station to collect new pistons, but they were oversized Auma be worked for 12 hours in a local engineering works to prepare the Veyron block was sent to collect cold food because they didn t stop for lunch Auma be completed block around midnight Friday caught a little sleep as the team has assembled the engine and at 7 am the next morning, Robert's car for a brief Veyron race was sent to 100 or 200 km run the car but to be back 11 they have the car Circuit noon, the race started at 4 and they won in record time.
Although his father forbade him to enter the race, he volunteered as test driver whenever the opportunity arose shortly before the outbreak of WWII, August 11, 1939, Jean Bugatti crashed Type 57C tank flying there testing the same car that had just recently won the 24 hour race at Le Mans over 200 km h, he had to swerve to avoid hitting a cyclist coming out of a country road, he lost control of the car, hit a tree and died on the spot at the time of his tragic death, Jean Bugatti was only 30 years old a distraught Ettore Bugatti had the remains of the buried car field of factory never recovered.
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