76 seconds — so it took 61-year-old John Bowe to disperse the Continental GT Speed to the maximum (and a record for Bentley) speed of 331 km / h. On dispersal to first hundred it takes only 4.2 seconds. That was not unfounded, published a video.
Everything happened in Australia on Highway Stuart Highway between the towns of Alice Springs and Barrow Creek. Do not assume that the driver was street racer, no. Just at this 200-km stretch there are no speed limits, except those that are in the driver's head.
By the way, the aforementioned John Bowe is not quite a simple driver and six-time champion and two-time Australian Touring Bathurst 1000 race winner.
So, he had a new Bentley Continental GT Speed, which premiered in the spring of 2014. The car is equipped with a 6-liter twin-turbo W12 engine capacity of 635 hp and 820 Nm, is paired with 8-step «automatic» ZF.
Representatives of the company shared some of the needs of the car during the test record. For example, it took 216 liters of coolant, while the heat sink to absorb 4700 liters of air per second. But most curious was the aerodynamics of the compartment. In particular up to 80% engine power, which was moving at 92 meters per second, care is to cope with the aerodynamic loads.
