The Lemon Fool

(And I’m sure I saw a BMW flashing him to move over)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7pg1hhW5qhM

"The Chiron Super Sport also rides on a bespoke set of Michelin Pilot Sport Cup 2 tires rated at an insane 317 mph. This is made possible by reinforced belts that were torture tested using a test bench originally built for the Space Shuttle program."

I guess that might mitigate the blowout risk somewhat?

That said I was interested in how the Bugatti moved to the left lane to pass vehicles in the right lane, even though the middle lane was clear, before returning to the middle lane. So perhaps the driver was not so confident?

Lootman wrote:That said I was interested in how the Bugatti moved to the left lane to pass vehicles in the right lane, even though the middle lane was clear, before returning to the middle lane. So perhaps the driver was not so confident?

Seems like good preventative/defensive driving to me. To protect against the driver in the RH lane from pulling into the middle lane - at 360 kph a glance in that drivers mirror might not register anybody behind and by the time they have then manoeuvred, the bugatti may have "suddenly appeared". (360 kph = 100m a second)



didds

Seem like young idiots to me. Hrumph!

didds wrote:

Lootman wrote:That said I was interested in how the Bugatti moved to the left lane to pass vehicles in the right lane, even though the middle lane was clear, before returning to the middle lane. So perhaps the driver was not so confident?

Seems like good preventative/defensive driving to me. To protect against the driver in the RH lane from pulling into the middle lane - at 360 kph a glance in that drivers mirror might not register anybody behind and by the time they have then manoeuvred, the bugatti may have "suddenly appeared". (360 kph = 100m a second)

didds

Many moons ago I was 'making progress' around the M63 (as was) about 02:30 returning from a night club, and someone joined from the sliproad and went straight to the OUTSIDE lane. I had already pulled to the outside in case they went to to the middle. I suspect they were a little surprised to find a motorcycle rattle between themand the central res doing about twice their speed, as they pulled back in after I'd passed.

Paul

Judging by the lack of traffic on the road, that must have been around 1962

--kiloran

Lootman wrote:
That said I was interested in how the Bugatti moved to the left lane to pass vehicles in the right lane, even though the middle lane was clear, before returning to the middle lane. So perhaps the driver was not so confident?

Yes I thought this too.

As noted in some of the comments below the video, he should have been driving in the middle lane in case a faster vehicle wanted to pass.

Now being investigated by local prosecutors, it can be an offence if he "moves at an inappropriate speed and in a manner that grossly violates the traffic code and is reckless" :
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-60301705

260mph.
Whew... that's twice as fast as I've ever driven.
Hitler certainly built some decent roads.

For me, the pleasure of a performance car has always been the acceleration.
And the noise.
I think whatever the cruising speed, after a while it's meh...

V8

DrFfybes wrote:
Many moons ago I was 'making progress' around the M63 (as was) about 02:30 returning from a night club, and someone joined from the slip road and went straight to the OUTSIDE lane. I had already pulled to the outside in case they went to to the middle. I suspect they were a little surprised to find a motorcycle rattle between them and the central res doing about twice their speed, as they pulled back in after I'd passed.

Paul

What the hell did they think they were doing driving in the outside lane at 35mph?! Tut tut...


GS

88V8 wrote:260mph.
Whew... that's twice as fast as I've ever driven.
Hitler certainly built some decent roads.

Point of order. Hitler might have built the A2, but he did let it get into a bit of a state. Even in 1972, which was the last time I drove along it, the bomb-cratered surface was still a suspension-wrecker all the way.

Of course, that suited the East Germans, who were running it as an access corridor to Berlin through the cold war. Nobody from the west could possibly go faster than a Trabant, which I suppose must have been some sort of consolation to them at the time? It also made it nearly impossible to overtake along the whole 150 km of the road, which also suited the Ossis because it made it easier to tell if you'd stopped to pick up any refugees along the transit route. Ten cars out of the expected sequence of cars, and they'd pull you over as a suspected people smuggler.

The truth is, though, that all of Germany's most important roads run from Berlin toward Paris. Four invasions, or was it five?

BJ

When I worked in Germany I remember driving at 160mph on the autobahn and it's very unsettling when a car suddenly overtakes you at around 180mph.