Overview

The world eagerly welcomed the extraordinary new Continental GT – now expectations are running equally high in anticipation of the astonishing new Continental GT3 race car. It is currently in development for the 2018 motorsport season and follows on from the already formidable Continental GT3. The pedigree is world class, with the current car being a proven championship-winning endurance racer, scoring 120 podiums and 45 wins across 528 races 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.

2018 Bentley Motorsport Season
For the upcoming season, Bentley Motorsport will assign a brace of breathtaking new Continental GT3 racers across Europe in the Blancpain GT Series Endurance Cup again in 2018. The team will compete across the globe in the four-round Intercontinental GT Challenge. The new Continental GT3 will make its race debut at the opening round of the 2018 Blancpain GT Series Endurance Cup at Monza. What a day it promises to be.

The latest updates from the development programme of the new GT3 racer – and final confirmation of the 2018 driver line-up – will be announced very soon, so please check back for further updates. 

• 30 October, 2018
  Bentley Motorsport secured a sixth championship title in late October 2018 when AAS Motorsport took a double podium in the Thai Super Series finale. Read more...
  
  
• 28 September, 2018
  Bentley Team M-Sport heads to the Blancpain GT Series Endurance Cup season finale in Barcelona with a chance of clinching the 2018 Pro Drivers’ title. Read more...
  
  
• 3 September, 2018
  Bentley Motorsport and American partner team K-PAX Racing have won the 2018 Pirelli World Challenge GT teams’ title. Read more... 
  
  
• 7 June, 2018
  Bentley’s second-generation Continental GT3 claimed its maiden podium on Saturday night (2 June) at the Blancpain GT Series Endurance Cup Paul Ricard race. Read more...
  
  
• 18 April, 2018
  The new Bentley Continental GT3 makes its race debut this weekend at Monza. Read more... 
  
  
• 6 April, 2018
  Bentley’s Japanese customer team, EIcars Bentley, has announced an unchanged driver line-up for this season’s Super GT Series. Read more...
  
  
• 8 March, 2018
  Official Bentley customer outfit Team Parker Racing has expanded its 2018 programme to include a Blancpain GT Series Endurance Cup entry by announcing that Derek Pierce, Ade Barwick and Seb Morris will race its Continental GT3 in Europe this season. Read more... 
  
  
• 6 March, 2018
  Bentley will continue to compete in the European-based Blancpain GT Series Sprint Cup this season after confirming that its official customer squad, Team Parker Racing, will enter a Continental GT3 in all five rounds. Read more...
  
  
• 8 February, 2018
  Bentley Motorsport’s newest customer team, K-PAX Racing, will contest the Pirelli World Challenge (PWC) SprintX series with Bentley works team drivers Andy Soucek (ES) and Maxime Soulet (BE), and full PWC season entrants Alvaro Parente (PT) and Rodrigo Baptista (BR). Read more here.
  
  
• 6 February, 2018
  Bentley will return to the British GT Championship with 2017 title-winners Team Parker Racing. The Leicestershire-based team will enter two current model Continental GT3s with sights set firmly on the next generation race car. Read more here.
  
  
• 31 January, 2018
  Bentley Team M-Sport’s 2018 motorsport season and Intercontinental GT Challenge campaign get underway in Australia this weekend when two Continental GT3s line up for the Bathurst 12 Hour. Read more here.
  
  

Read about 2017 Motorsport news here.

Read about 2016 Motorsport news here.

Read about 2015 Motorsport news here.

2017 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. 2018 will see the new GT3 make its debut at the Blancpain Endurance Series.

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 plimpse into what takes place on the Customer Team Programme, please watch the film above.

The 2018 Customer programme for the Blancpain Series is already sold out, if you want to know more about Motorsport in general or make enquiries for our other races or the 2019 series, please register your interest by clicking here.