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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…
A confidential settlement has been agreed between Ferrari and F1’s governing body, the FIA, after an investigation into the team’s engine. Rivals had raised suspicions over the legality of last…
Another strategic race made for great viewing as Max Verstappen took the plaudits in France while Aston Martin pulled off their own strategy sweep for points
Brian Redman won the Daytona 24 Hours three times. He co-drove a John Wyer Gulf Porsche 917 in 1970 to win with Pedro Rodríguez and Leo Kinnunen, won for a…
A DRS qualifying ban has been floated as one way of reining in Red Bull. But it could damage a highlight of F1 weekends in 2023, without slowing the championship leaders, says Cambridge Kisby