Bentley unveiled GT3 is "as light as a feather"

The Bentley Continental GT has naturally not exactly an athletic build. The street lightest version weighs just 2.4 tonnes briefly. Deprive him of all your luxury, then things suddenly very different. The Continental GT3 proves it.

Now the Continental GT3 actually very little more to do with the ones we can find in the showroom, it remains amazing that Bentley 1,000 kilograms on board has been able to throw, while the front is still that quite heavy 4.0-liter V8 biturbo depends. Race Ready GT3 weighs no more than an average middle class, about 1,300 kg. Couple this featherweight (for Bentley) do not have to tell you that their race machine is like the fire just below an eight-cylinder with a potency of 600 hp and Bentley What times and speeds can be achieved is not disclosed, but this is a sample, and we can rest assured.

Race techniques
take a look at the pictures and you discover what Bentley Zoal has thrown overboard to luxury. To centimeters thick leather and wood in the GT3 vain search. Carbon has come in its place and where it is not just look at the raw sheet metal. To be able to let things wins the race car is the V8 no longer linked to a silky eight-speed automatic, but a six-speed sequential transmission from Xtrac. The drive is to the rear wheels via a carbon fiber propshaft. The suspension has been completely on the shovel. Here no air, but adjustable dampers for maximum contact with the asphalt. The huge rear wing contributes to this, which developed a body kit of the company M-Sport Ltd. is placed.

Goodwood
If that has not happened, then the Continental GT3 in the course of today for the first time showing his skills at the Goodwood Festival of Speed. After this event the racer will be approved by the FIA and if he succeeds Bentley steams him more ready to participate in the FIA Blancpain Series of 2014.