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Welcome To Bentley
One hundred years ago it was merely one man’s surname; yet the word Bentley quickly came to define the sporting…
One hundred years ago it was merely one man’s surname; yet the word Bentley quickly came to define the sporting…
Unalloyed triumphs are rare events. With almost every victory comes a tinge of regret, a sense not just of a…
Here’s confidence for you: assemble a bunch of journalists at the bottom of the 8200ft Grossglockner Pass, distribute among them…
In the run-up to this year’s Le Mans 24-Hour race the thought occurs that it marks the 90th anniversary of…
In a different era, on a different continent at a different time of day, the sight that greeted Guy Smith…
writer Andrew Frankel Taken from Motor Sport, November 2013 At midnight on June 27, 1938, a 4¼-litre Derby Bentley eased…
Heritage. We’ve been going on about it in Motor Sport for years, and now it seems the rest of the…
It’s taken since the start of the decade, but Bentley has finally turned the Mulsanne if not into the car…
You don’t know whether to laugh or cry but make a noise somewhere in-between. It just looks so, well, improbable.…
The Blower-4½ single-seater Bentley with which the late Sir Henry Birkin twice broke the Brooklands outer-circuit lap record was very…
Maybe it’s the word ‘boys’ that makes the phrase ring. We know that they were grown men, but somehow it’s…
On paper there seems little point in considering this new 4-litre V8 version of the Bentley Flying Spur over its…
I was not alone in raising my eyebrows when Bentley first suggested it was going racing with its Continental GT…
When someone comes to write the definitive history of Bentley – who knows, perhaps in time for its centenary in…
Bentley is not a name to be taken lightly. Indeed, the development of the Rolls-Royce-built cars has been steady, sensible…
Why do they make it so difficult? Before you can settle into those large deep chairs and appreciate the most…
The sporting car, as a class, has characteristically more distinction than that possessed by touring types. Being out of the…
May 21, 1923: a lone 3-litre Bentley leaves London bound for the Continent. At the wheel is Bentley dealer John…
No fewer than 30 years passed between the introduction of the R-Type Bentley Continental and the subject of this month’s…
This is quite something: the first time that cars from all three eras of Bentley’s racing history have been driven…
Four-time NASCAR champion Jeff Gordon was the man to beat at Phoenix on Sunday. Gordon’s Chevrolet led more laps than anyone else and, with eight to go, passed Kyle Busch’s…
Sport had rarely witnessed such hyperbolic overdrive. Lewis Hamilton needed to finish only fifth to clinch his maiden world title. There are no racing certs in F1, but in a…
Lewis Hamilton caught the F1 paddock by surprise when he announced his future move to Ferrari. But Matt Bishop recalls a conversation several years earlier when the seven-time champion made his intentions clear
Gloves off. Last lap. Old tensions and new ones. Why did they take me off my one-stop strategy when it was all going to plan? Why’s he on the faster…