As great an engineering marvel the Veyron is, it is not a race car on the same level as the pagani or Enzo. Sure, it may be quicker than an F1 car (then again, F1 cars are not geared to make a headline 0-60 number like the Bugatti is, only to hype up and justify the millions of dollars in losses that it took to build it), but what makes F1 cars so fast on a track is thier low weight, ridiculously high cornering speeds and thier braking abilities. THese characteristics the Bugatti doesnt have, and i believe a time around what an F430 or 911 turbo would do around the track would be a GOOD result for it.
Once on a track, accelerating from corner to corner, the huge power difference between the veyron and the others would be mostly neutralized, especially due to the supposed turbo lag that Murray was so happy to point out.
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