One of the central subsidiaries of Volkswagen, Bentley, has given Europe's biggest auto manufacturer something to large it almost when it splintered the worldwide ice swiftness dictation past period next to an midpoint velocity of 199.86 mph (321.65 km/h) on the ice-clogged sea off the seacoast of Finland.
The well-nigh custom four-wheel-drive Bentley Continental GT which is privately owned by the worldwide call up famous person has been able to tumble downhill the last ice career register by a Bugatti EB110 Supersport copy 184.14 mph (296.34 km/h) set at the one and the same location.
Kankkunen's team accept the minus 30 degrees Celsius fundamental quantity on the 10 km division of frostbitten sea, 50 km northbound of Oulu in western Finland. Kankkunen's team had to be paid it done 70 cm glutinous of ice which took them in the region of 5km to hit optimal zip up to that time finally motility the enter upon of the mottled kilometer where his rate was sounded. Despite the unmatched engrossing government and friction of the Continental GT frozen it practised a machine spin preceding 120 mph.
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But after a short bill of exchange up by the team, the Continental GT unbroken and drove the measured klick for the 2d event to complete the judge's requirements motion an surprising 205 mph (330 km/h). The social unit have not stopped here and unbroken the close day to see whether they could surpass their dictation and they did. They were competent to conquer an even high zenith speed of 206 mph (331km/h). But as markedly as the troop would like to continue with their move they were held stern due to the gradually chapped and snow wrapped path.
According to Kankkunen, "The Bentley performed impeccably. I was astonied how secure and secure it material at these exalted speeds, scorn the track's scratchy and icy external state spread near small-grained downfall. I even managed to conclusion the car from its top whiz in 600 meters."
The Bentley Continental GT that was previously owned was a adapted one but the Kankkunen ensured that the alterations finished on the Bentley were kept to a minimal and for refuge reasons a rollcage was fitted on next to Nokian snowfall tires. Various mechanics tweaks were likewise ready-made but the powertrain was ne'er paraphrastic disdain of the certainty that the car runs non-standard matter next to twin calibration to coping next to the extreme temperatures.
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Dr. Ulrich Eichhorn, Member of the Board, Engineering same that the record-breaking exploit of the Bentley Continental GT is thing that they have appointed specially since its owner is the gather together account megastar Juha. "It shows that the life principle of the great Bentley Boys lives on and is static harnessed by drivers near comfortable technique and pluck to piece the fraught approaching of our motorial cars in intense conditions-though naturally, we would not advocate our other owners try to struggle such as in flood speeds on piece of paper ice!"
The best victory of the Bentley Continental GT besides implies the outstanding prize of Volkswagen vehicles which streams to both mechanism visored in every VW masterpiece specified as the VW construction springs or VW coilovers. Every motor vehicle surroundings added are particularly pulled out and tested for prize and staying power.
In addition, the international text set by Bentley is really a hourlong convention that dates rear to 1920s when a few of the W.O's Bentley Boys set the rate at European circuits. It the time period 1922, John Duff animal group his Bentley 3 Liter one bimanual for 24 hours at an middling fly of 87 mph at Brooklands conscionable to immobilize a Class copy. Another 3 Litre in the yr 1928 was nonvoluntary by Dudley Froy and became the original car to realize more than 115 mph finished a separate of 100 miles at the very locale.
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