now a year ago Jeremy erased James and
me from Italy to London James and I in
his ridiculous aeroplane Jeremy in a
Bugatti Veyron and annoyingly he won
then we heard from a bunch of aeroplane
enthusiasts called the RAF they said why
don't you come up to our place and we've
got a plane that will give you a car or
run for its money
and well seen as I'm the only one that
hasn't yet driven the Bugatti Veyron I
took up the challenge
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yes the fairs endorsed by a legend is
back and if I'm honest I'm a bit nervous
not because of the camera itself but
because of the burden that now rests on
my shoulders when Jeremy drove the
Veyron
only had to beat was a incompetent James
in a useless little aeroplane then when
James went to Germany and maxed it the
car didn't even break sweat
but this time the Veyrons honor really
is at stake because never before has it
gone up against something like this the
most modern the most hi-tech Strike
Fighter on the planet
the Eurofighter Typhoon
and for once when it comes to figures
the bugatti really is well and truly top
trumped its twin engines develop 20,000
pounds of thrust each punching the
Eurofighter up to 65,000 feet and a top
speed of over 1500 miles an hour this
machine is the cutting edge of what a
plane can do it's actually designed to
be aerodynamically unstable to make it
as agile as possible in a dogfight so it
needs 70 computers to keep it in the air
and if they fail it would simply fall
out of the sky it's kind of a mix of
science fiction and brute strength these
wings for example have to be able to
take the stresses and strengths of all
those extreme high-speed maneuvers so
they might look old slim and dainty but
each one can take the weight of 35
Volkswagen golf's
an all quite a handy bit of kit as you'd
expect at 67 million a pop faced with
the clear and present danger of the
Eurofighter the bugatti veyron wheelie
is the car world's best shot at clinging
to some honour and no one knows what the
outcome will be
in fact bugatti is so concerned they've
sent over not one but two Veyrons maybe
they're going to tie them together or
something
the shootout will take place here on the
main runway at RAF Coningsby in
Lincolnshire and here's the challenge
it's a horizontal versus vertical drag
race over two miles here's the
start/finish line and the car and the
plane yeah it's difficult to get hold of
models of a Veyron and a Eurofighter
they both start from here the car will
race down the runway for a mile when it
reaches the mile marker turn as quickly
as possible and then race back down over
the same mile to cross the start-finish
line here meanwhile the plane will set
off and take off as quickly as possible
and cover a mile vertically obviously
when it's done the mile it turns and
swoops back down the same mile to cross
the start-finish line or to crash into a
million pound supercar that it didn't
expect to see and YouTube has a field
day otherwise its last one to finish is
a vegetarian simple as that now you
might think the plane is going to walk
it but don't be so sure the car should
have the edge off the line it'll do
nought to 100 in 5.7 seconds for God's
sake and when it gets to these yellow
dots which mark the mile point where it
has to turn around the Veyron has
another advantage down here it's awesome
brain should come into play and then
there's the air brake as well which on
its own generates the same stopping
power as you'd get in a normal hatchback
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straight line is a straight line so the
car does what it does there
but up here I've got a brake as late as
possible and lose as little time as
possible making the turn before the
return mile so I reckon it'll be won or
lost here at this end
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try some control off gearbox to manual
launch control
left foot on brake give it the full
beams on the throttle this is it
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as drag races go you will agree this is
quite a good one
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your neck
so I'm fighting for the Germans in a
battle against the RAF
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after just 18 seconds I was doing 188
miles an hour and getting ready to brake
for the mile turn
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I was doing 196 miles an hour but was it
enough
I suspect I may get some abuse for this
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you