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World’s Oldest Champagne Will Be Sold to the Highest Bidder

A man pours a 200-year-old champagne A man pours a 200-year-old champagne Two bottles of what is believed to be the World’s Oldest Champagne are to be put up for auction by the provincial government of the Finnish Aaland Islands this coming summer. The champagne, discovered by divers in an early 19th century shipwreck last summer, will be sold to the highest bidder. The Government of Aaland has issued a press release regarding the auction announcing that the auctioneers will be Acker Merrall & Condit, the world’s premier wine auction house. An exclusive champagne auction taking place in the capital Mariehamn on June 3, 2011. While one of the bottles comes from Veuve Clicquot, the other one is from the now extinct house of Juglar.

Bentley Supersports Ice Speed Record Convertible Debuts at geneva Show

Celebration of Bentley’s world ice speed record- breaking Supersports convertible driven by rally champion, Juha Kankkunen

Bentley Supersports Ice Speed Record Convertible Bentley Supersports Ice Speed Record Convertible (Geneva, 28 February 2011) Bentley announces today its most potent and radically styled convertible ever – the 202mph (325km/h) Supersports ‘Ice Speed Record’ convertible. This new model, limited to just 100 cars worldwide, is a celebration of the Company’s world ice speed record set two weeks ago by Finland’s four-time world rally champion Juha Kankkunen in a Bentley Continental Supersports convertible. Driving the all-wheel drive, biofuel-powered 6-litre, 12-cylinder Continental Supersports convertible on the perilous frozen Baltic Sea, off the coast of Finland, Kankkunen achieved a speed of 205.48 mph (330.695 km/h) eclipsing his own ice speed record of 199.83 mph (321.6 km/h) set in 2007 in the Continental GT. Both the new Supersports ‘Ice Speed Record’ convertible and Juha’s record-breaking Supersports will be on display on the Bentley stand at the Geneva Show from 1st March.

Bentley Supersports Shatters World Speed Record on Sheet Ice

Bentley Supersports Convertible on the Ice Track

Rally champion, Juha Kankkunen achieves 205.48 mph (330.695 km/h) in extreme Bentley convertible

(Oulu, Finland. 15 February 2011) – Finland’s four-time world rally champion Juha Kankkunen drove a Bentley Continental Supersports convertible on the hazardous frozen waters of the Baltic Sea, off the coast of Finland, at a breathtaking 205.48 mph (330.695 km/h) to set a new world speed record on ice. Kankkunen was in irresistible form with his all-wheel drive, 6-litre, 12-cylinder Continental Supersports convertible which, in line with the Company’s CO2 strategy, ran on biofuel. The world’s fastest soft top enabled Juha to shatter his own 2007 world ice speed record of 199.83 mph (321.6 km/h) set in the Continental GT at the same location. With the help of his own experienced team and Bentley engineers, Kankkunen overcame the challenges of temperatures as low as minus 30 degrees, sudden snow blizzards and potentially dangerous crosswinds on the 16.5km track on a 70cm-thick layer of sea ice. The record attempt was driven on a 1000m long measured distance with the speed certified by officials from the Finland Traffic Police. His new world record was based on the average of two runs in opposite directions with measured speeds ratified by a representative of The Guinness Book of Records.
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