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 | Great Read: Bentley's brilliant blowout – Test-driving the Speed 8, GT, Blower triple test |
August 2019 | Andrew Frankel |
Clive Dunfee was one of the original 'Bentley Boys'. He was tragically killed on this day in 1932 at Brooklands, but Dunfee had already played his part in forging the brand's legend. To celebrate 100 years of one of Britain's greatest marques in 2019, we gathered together three of its most famous racers from three very different racing eras. In a world exclusive, Andrew Frankel channelled his inner Bentley Boy for a track test like no other
This is quite something: the first time that cars from all three eras of Bentley's racing history have been driven together. Each has their claim to fame: the GT3 is Bentley's latest competition car, a state of the art racer in the most competitive category of sports car racing. The old Blower is not merely Sir Henry Birkin's own car, not only the one in which he led Le Mans in 1930, but the one that exists today as the most original of all racing vintage Bentleys. And the one that sits in the middle chronologically? It's the 2003 Le Mans winner – not one of a type of car that won that race but the actual winner... |
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