eRacing Magazine Vol. 1 Issue 2. | Page 26

INSIGHT - BENTLEY GT3 CONTINENTAL

When Bentley goes racing, you can rest assured that things are done properly. Given that Bentley’s last project – their first in 73 years – was the 2003 Le Mans-winning Speed 8, even before it hit the track, great things were thus expected of the new GT3 Continental, prepared by rallying supremos M-Sport. Perhaps unsurprisingly then, Bentley’s

return to sports car racing in the Gulf 12 Hours of Abu Dhabi was a marked success, with Steven Kane, Andy Meyrick and Guy Smith bringing the car home in fourth place on its race debut.

Nobody goes into an endurance race underdone. That is never the intention, but the thrust of competition always manages to throw a curveball that you can can never prepare for...