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Bentley Blower No.1 is a racing car developed from the Bentley 4½ Litre by Sir Henry "Tim" Birkin to win the Le Mans twenty-four-hour race. The car was developed into its current form for racing at Brooklands.
The Bentley 4½ Litre is a British car based on a rolling chassis built by Bentley Motors. [1] Walter Owen Bentley replaced the Bentley 3 Litre with a more powerful car by increasing its engine displacement to 4.4 litres (270 cubic inches). A racing variant was known as the Blower Bentley.
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Bentley sales continued to increase, and in 2005 8,627 were sold worldwide, 3,654 in the United States. In 2007, the 10,000 cars-per-year threshold was broken for the first time with sales of 10,014. For 2007, a record profit of €155 million was also announced. [41] Bentley reported a sale of about 7,600 units in 2008. [42]
Improved over the close-season, a team of three “Blower Bentleys” arrived, managed by former Bentley-driver and Lagonda team-manager Bertie Kensington-Moir. [6] Birkin renewed his 1928 Le Mans partnership with Jean Chassagne , while race-winner Dudley Benjafield drove with former Alfa Romeo test-driver (and now British resident) Giulio ...
The 242 bhp "blower Bentley" was born. Tim Birkin racing Bentley Blower No.1 at Brooklands in 1929. The first car, a stripped down Brooklands racer known as Bentley Blower No.1, first appeared at the Essex six-hour race at Brooklands on 29 June 1929. However, the car initially proved to be very unreliable.
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Blower: touring model 175 bhp (130 kW) @ 3,500rpm; racing model 242 bhp (180 kW) @ 2,400 rpm. The "Bentley Blower" was born, [13] more powerful than the 6½ Litre despite lacking the two additional cylinders. [17] The downside was that Blower Bentleys consume 4 liters of fuel per minute at full speed. [15]