Bentley Blowers Primed For Classic Mille Miglia Challenge
Bentley Motors is
competing in Mille Miglia 2014 (May 15-18, 2014) with two of the company’s
famous 4 ½ Liter supercharged ‘Blowers’ taking on the 1,700 km
route.
The 1930 Le Mans
‘Team Car’ once owned by Sir Henry ‘Tim’ Birkin, one of the most
celebrated members of a group of British gentlemen racers known as the “Bentley Boys,”
will be joined by a former company demonstrator Blower with its original
Vanden Plas Open, Sports Four Seater body for this renowned
race.
Even after
nine decades on the road, this second Blower continues to delight
customers and guests from around the world with demonstration drives during
visits to Bentley’s Crewe Headquarters.
Both Bentleys have
successfully completed the modern Mille Miglia challenge several times
and, with their classic dark green livery and distinctive, rumbling exhaust
note, they’re welcomed by the thousands of fans who line the route to support
the drivers.
To celebrate the start
of Mille Miglia 2014, the Bentley team will meet with customers and
friends from the Bentley Drivers Club (www.bdcl.co.uk)
in the city of Brescia on the afternoon before the race.
The pre-race gathering
will include Bentley owners who have travelled from as far as Australia,
Hong Kong, South Africa and the United States, as well as the
United Kingdom. They will meet the factory sponsored Blowers and bring
their own cars to create a unique line-up of machines bearing the famous
Winged B emblem in Italy.
“We plan to see
Bentley’s Blowers and their drivers off in style. There will be Bentleys from
all eras, some of them extremely rare, in Brescia to mark the start of
Mille Miglia and it should be a real celebration of great cars”, comments
Steve Miller, Club Secretary of the Bentley Drivers Club.
Live updates from
Mille Miglia 2014 will be provided over the course of the event via Twitter
(@BentleyComms).
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