Hamburg-based manufacturing partner, Laser Zentrum Nord, handled the actual printing, creating the calliper using four 400-watt lasers to help fuse layers of titanium alloy powder.
The Chiron's brakes are said to be the largest of any production vehicle, with eight-piston front callipers and six-piston rear callipers.
Mated to a six-speed manual gearbox with drive to the rear wheels there are six-piston brake
callipers for the front brake disc measuring 380mm in diameter with four-piston
callipers for the rear 320mm diameter discs.
"I remember being told the callipers would straighten my legs, which were bent and out of shape," she says.
Her mother even made toy callipers out of plastic straws for Philippa's dolls to reassure her daughter.
