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When developing the 1000-horsepower, 400km/h Veyron, Bugatti asked to use the Sauber Formula One team's wind tunnel for high-speed testing. However, the Sauber F1 engineers had no experience with aerodynamics at those speeds, and had to leave the Bugatti engineers to figure it out on their own.

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