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 Formed in the dark winter months of 1990, by a small coterie of dedicated Vintage Bentley drivers, the Club was named after the man who won at LeMans in 1927 and who was an accomplished and successful racing driver of the 1920’s, when not practicing medicine in his Wimpole Street surgery.
Membership of Benjafield’s Racing Club is by invitation only and there is a waiting list. However, it is possible to see the Bentley Boys in action throughout the racing season at the many historic race meetings which take place throughout the year in the UK and Internationally.
Members have previously raced at:
- Copenhagen Historic Grand Prix,
- Laguna Seca,
- from London to Moscow,
- Historic LeMans,
- Monte Carlo Classic,
- SEERed (now SEESilver),
- Goodwood Revival,
- Their own event at Cornbury Park,
- Their own scratch race at Bentley Drivers Club - Silverstone,
- The international racing car show,
- Silverstone Classic,
- SPA 6 Hours - Belgium.
In fact in the years BRC has grown from its fledgling roots to become an internationally recognised racing club. It is not uncommon for Benjafield’s Members to field teams of eight Bentleys; often these are the awesome Blower models of 1930. Our website is now one of the leading historic racing sites on the internet, no mean feat considering the competition.
Benjafield's Members have also made and then broken world land speed records (see our Thunderbolt section for more details).
The Benjafield's Racing Club doesn't just uphold it's motto "Helping to preserve the spirit of camaraderie and sportsmanship which inspired Dr J. Dudley Benjafield and the Great Racing Team for whom he drove" it is now so successful it is writing new chapters in the pages history.
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Walter Owen Bentley was born in 1888 as ninth of 11 siblings. He started off with locomotives working as apprentice for the Great Northern Railway and racing motorcycles in his spare time before turning to cars in 1910. In 1912 he, together with a brother, bought a company that imported products from a little French car manufacturer known as DFP. Bentley started to upgrade the engines and entered the cars in races to make them better known. Bentley was among the first ever to make aluminium pistons for car engines, and the first to have it in a production car.
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Right from the start, Bentley Motors' racing success was built on thorough, meticulous preparation and a preparedness to learn from experience.
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Woolf Barnato, known among the Bentley Boys as 'Babe', a name at odds with his reputation of being a 'useful' heavyweight boxer. Immensely wealthy, inherited from his family's South African diamond mining fortune.
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