Bugatti has posted some test footage from the Imola Raceway starring its Bolide hypercar on a wet track, and has also provided some interesting details regarding it. It is now official that the Bolide is using custom Brembo brakes with the largest carbon rotors ever used in a production vehicle.
The two companies had allegedly spent a few years designing the sophisticated brake system and testing it both on the dyno and the track. At the front end, the car relies on eight-piston aluminum calipers with carbon-fiber rotors sized 390x37.5 millimeters. The rear brakes are marginally less huge at 390x34 mm with six-piston calipers. To top things off, the system relies on unique cylinders and brake liquid to function.
The French hypercar maker claims the brakes aren’t in any sense inferior to those used on top-of-the-line Le Mans racecars. Despite their size, they are still fairly lightweight and shed excess heat very efficiently.
On the rain-soaked Imola track, Bugatti has proven another technological innovation as well: a drive mode called Wet, designed to combat understeer on wet asphalt.
The track-focused Bugatti Bolide will be the company’s last vehicle built on the Chiron chassis. Aside from the features discussed above, it also gets a custom chassis and all-new bodywork, as well as a completely overhauled cabin. The quad-turbo W16 under the hood still supplies its usual 1,600 PS (1,578 hp / 1,177 kW) to the wheels.
Only 40 units will be released priced from €4,000,000.
