Bentley's Director of Motorsport on the GT3-R and the Brand's Return to Racing - Motor Trend (blog)
He began working on the development of the car not long after VW Group acquired the storied British luxury brand in 1998. Over the years, he’s also served as Bentley’s powertrain and chassis development chief, and now the genial South African, who... The Bentley Continental GT3 race car was developed entirely in house at Bentley’s HQ in Crewe, England. Bentley had previously competed in the LMP1 prototype sports car category, the team run by Gush winning the fabled Le Mans 24 Hour race with the Speed 8 in 2003. The decision to focus on the production-car-based GT3 category instead came when... Back in the 1920s, when the Bentley Boys ran riot at La Sarthe, winning the Le Mans 24 Hour four times straight, Bentley forged a reputation for not only being strong at endurance racing, but for supporting customers who raced production-based... Today’s GT3 category, which features racing versions of road-going sports cars such as the Porsche 911, Ferrari 458 Italia, McLaren 12C, Aston Martin V8 Vantage, Mercedes-Benz SLS, and Chevrolet Corvette seemed the perfect modern analogue. Making the race car rear drive instead of all-wheel drive and choosing to go with the 4. 0-liter V-8 instead of the 6. 0-liter 12-cylinder engine were two key decisions Gush made at the beginning of the car’s development. Source: blogs.motortrend.com
