Going that fast in a Chiron ain’t as easy as it sounds.
. That's about 250 miles per hour—precisely 248.548 for the always-a-tree, never-a-forest types. But the Airbus A321 I flew to Orlando on has a cruising speed of 544 mph. Earth rotates faster than 1,000 mph at the equator. Our planet travels through space while orbiting the sun at more than 67,000 mph. As Einstein might well have explained, fast is relative.
Why was I doing this? The downside is possible violent death, massive injury, or having to deal with smashing a $4 million hypercar to pieces. The upside is the ability to say I've driven a car 250 mph. That's pretty dang sweet and all, but is the juice worth the squeeze? The plan for the day was simple: I'd be a passenger for one run, where Morrow would take the Chiron up to 150 mph to let me feel how he wanted the braking to happen. Not reverse rocket science, exactly, but it was like this: Quickly lift off the throttle, go firm but not too hard on the brakes, and then build pressure to the point just before the ABS kicks in. In other words, make a big stop, not a panic stop.
We were told to keep the cars between 100 and 125 mph on the return run, just to get enough air through all the radiators to cool the mechanical stuff and to keep tire temps up. I noted how uneventful 200-plus mph felt; normal supercars reach that point and run out of steam, juice, and thrust. The Chiron felt normal, like it was jogging or something."Understressed" might be a better way to describe it.
About 45 minutes later I'm back in the Chiron Super Sport, tires sorted and Top Speed mode activated, and I get the thumbs-up to go. I push the gas pedal against the firewall. The big W-16 spins, waiting a tick while the four turbochargers begin recirculating the exhaust gases back through 32 inlet valves into the waiting half-liter cylinders and then,Everything seems smooth and hiccup-free.
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