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King Of Drag Races : 1,500-hp Bugatti Chiron Sport Versus 5,727-hp Rafale Marine Jet
King of drag races : who wins when BUGATTI Chiron Sport ‘Les Légendes du Ciel’ meets Dassault Rafale Marine jet?
BUGATTI Chiron Sport and Dassault Rafale Marine jet are French’s biggest performance machines.
The two has combined 7,227hp, with BUGATTI Chiron churning out 1,500hp and Dassault Rafale Marine jet, 5,727-hp
The BUGATTI Chiron Sport ‘Les Légendes du Ciel’ celebrates some of the greatest French pilots.
Who wins when you set up an ultimate drag-race between a 1,500-hp Bugatti Chiron Sport ‘Les Légendes du Ciel’ sports car and a 5,727-hp Dassault Rafale Marine jet?
To answer the question, Bugatti brought the two most powerful French performance machines together to celebrate French pioneering and passion for over a century.
The BUGATTI Chiron Sport ‘Les Légendes du Ciel’ was specially created to celebrate some of the greatest French pilots. Still powering the Chiron is the 8.0-liter W16 engine, churning out the power of 1,500 horses.
The iconic Dassault Rafale fighter of the French Navy, on the other hand, has two turbojets, churning out 58,550 newtons of thrust, which is around 5,727 hp.
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In a video shared by VW-owned automaker, the Bugatti Chiron Pur Sport can be seen giving a fight to outpace the iconic Dassault Rafale fighter jet.
In a posts that accompanied the video, Bugatti said :
“It were the French who were the driving forces in motor sports racing as well as flying at the beginning of the 20th century.
“And some of the greatest French pilots of that time also became legends on the Grand Prix courses in their Bugattis.
The pilots were the driving forces in motor sports racing as well as flying at the beginning of the 20th century.”