A racing legend and a hypercar titan have made a great team.
Andy Wallace has racing accolades to his name that few other racing drivers in the world can claim. Most prominently, he’s one of the very few drivers with motorsport’s legendary Triple Crown, winning the 24 Hours of Le Mans, 24 Hours of Daytona, and 12 Hours of Sebring. To honor his incredible career and journey, he was inducted into the Sebring Hall of Fame in 2022, joining legends like Stirling Moss, Juan Manuel Fangio, and Dan Gurney.
However, his career gained a new facet when he joined Bugatti in 2011 as the legendary manufacturer’s Pilote Officiel, and that role has brought him back to the track, experiencing thrilling moments behind the wheel of some of the world’s most incredible hypercars. In 2019, Wallace brought the Chiron Super Sport 300+ to more than 300 mph, breaking that barrier for the first time behind the wheel of a production car.
He’s been instrumental in the development of models like the Bugatti Chiron, Divo, and Centodieci, but the one closest to his illustrious career in endurance racing is the Bolide. The pinnacle of extreme performance in W16 Bugatti hypercars, the Bolide is an ultra-lightweight, track-only masterpiece, and it not only evokes but evolves the race cars from throughout Wallace’s racing career.
From developing the car at the Paul Ricard Circuit in 2019, to driving it at Le Mans last year for its dynamic debut, Wallace says that among the incredible hypercars he’s driven and contributed to for Bugatti, the Bolide is very special to him. With Bugatti’s hypercar prowess now translated to a track-only racing creation, the Bugatti Bolide speaks to the power of the joined forces of a racing legend like Andy Wallace, and a luxurious purveyor of game-changing hypercars like Bugatti.
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