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      • As they roared through the ’20s, the Bentley Boys shaped racing as we know it 100 years on. They made Le Mans as British as it is French. Most durably, they started the symbiotic relationship that still exists between automakers and racing.
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  2. Bentley has been racing since 1919 – the year of the company’s birth. In the decades that have followed its first race, Bentley has forged a formidable reputation on the racetracks of the world, thanks to a combination of visionary engineering and the courage of the men and women who take the wheel.

  3. Dec 12, 2023 · It’s not true that Bentley has always been a racing brand – for 71 of those 100 years Bentley did not race at all. But racing was there from the start – indeed Bentley raced long before it got around to delivering a car to a paying customer in September 1921.

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  4. Jul 10, 2019 · For this month’s magazine, Motor Sport has assembled cars from each of Bentley’s three eras of racing and driven them together. Spanning 90 years of competition, and designed to face gruelling endurance races, these are the cars that have forged the character and soul of the company.

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  5. Dec 3, 2019 · Take away some time/distance speed records, and the Blower Bentleys were bad race cars. All five Bentley victories in the first decade of the 24 Hours of Le Mans, including four consecutively...

  6. Aug 4, 2024 · Rolls-Royce Tried To Sneak Into The Family. When you think of Bentley, what comes to mind? Is it the sleek, ultra-luxurious car gliding down a winding road, or is it the roar of a historic and...

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  7. Dec 26, 2018 · WATCH. For Bentley Motors, it was July 10, 1919 when 31-year-old Walter Owen Bentley officially founded his new company in a backstreet London garage “to build a fast car, a good car, the...

  8. Jun 4, 2019 · A private-entry Bentley raced in the first Le Mans 24-hour race in 1923, attracting W.O. 's interest, and that same 3.0-liter car won in 1924, the first of six total triumphs.

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