At the forthcoming Festival of Speed presented by Mastercard we will particularly be celebrating the centenary of what has been, over many fast and yet stately decades, perhaps that most quintessentially British marque: Bentley.
How W.O. Bentley used motorsport to kickstart Bentley Motors
Doug Nye began writing about racing cars at ‘Motor Racing’ magazine in 1963-64. Today he is a multiple award-winning motor sports journalist and author of over 50 years’ experience, with some 70 books to his name. He is Goodwood Motorsport’s founding Historian and consultant and fulfils similar roles for Bonhams Auctioneers and the Collier Collection/Revs Institute in Naples, FL, USA. He is a member of the National Motor Museum Advisory Council at Beaulieu, Hants, and is a regular columnist for ‘Motor Sport’ magazine, while contributing to many other specialist periodicals worldwide.
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