Overview

The world eagerly welcomed the extraordinary new Continental GT – and now ready for its second race season is the astonishing new Continental GT3 race car.  The pedigree is world class, with the previous Continental GT3 being a proven championship-winning endurance racer, scoring over 120 podiums and 45 wins around the world to date.

The standard is high. But the team is aiming higher still. Development of the new car has been led with passion and innovation by the engineers of Bentley Motorsport’s in-house team based in Crewe, and supported across the car by designers and technicians at Bentley’s technical partner, M-Sport.

The new GT3 race car was developed in tandem with the recently launched Continental GT road car, and the performance learnings are many. It utilises the mostly aluminium structure to deliver a much lighter, race-ready weight of significantly less than 1300 kg together with a more even weight distribution – ideal for racing. The engine is a new development of the race-proven 4.0-litre Bentley twin-turbo V8, with a redesigned dry sump system and all-new intake and exhaust systems. Unrestricted power is in excess of 550 bhp, fuel consumption is improved and despite reduced exhaust noise the sound is still unmistakably Bentley.

Highly optimised road car intercoolers are utilised in the Continental GT3 to provide optimum engine performance. Exterior aerodynamic surfaces, based on the sleekly refined lines of the road car, provide additional down force. New suspension and braking systems are also bespoke to the car. To see the full specification of the new GT3, read below.

2019 Bentley Motorsport Season
For the upcoming season, Bentley Motorsport will be racing the new Continental GT3 across Europe in the Blancpain GT Series Endurance Cup again in 2019.

The latest updates regarding the 2019 race season and final confirmation of the 2019 driver line-up – will be announced soon, so please check back for further updates. 

Read about 2017 Motorsport news here.

Read about 2016 Motorsport news here.

2018 was an exciting year for all of our Bentley race teams around the Globe, not least because all of the races supported by our ever popular Customer Team Programme were sold out, and the debut of the exciting new Continental GT3. 

Having our customers join us and support the Motorsport Team at the races, really does give the drivers, engineers and technicians a boost” says Brian Gush, Bentley Motorsport Director.

If you want to take a glimpse into what takes place on the Customer Team Programme, please watch the film above.

If you want to know more about Motorsport in general or make enquiries for our 2019 series, please register your interest by clicking here.