---
title: "The New Bentley Continental GT3 Is Unquestionably Sexy"
description: "Overweight luxury race car goes on a diet, becomes underwear model."
date: "2017-11-10"
modified: "2017-11-10"
authors:
  - name: "Chris Constantine"
    link: "https://www.thedrive.com/authors/chris-constantine"
url: "https://www.thedrive.com/article/15971/the-new-bentley-continental-gt3-is-unquestionably-sexy"
categories:
  - "Bentley News"
  - "News"
  - "News by Brand"
tags:
  - "bentley"
  - "Continental GT"
  - "Coupe"
  - "Grand Touring"
  - "GT3"
  - "luxury"
  - "motorsport"
---

# The New Bentley Continental GT3 Is Unquestionably Sexy

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The [Bentley Continental GT](<https://www.thedrive.com/vintage/6719/is-now-the-time-to-buy-a-bentley-continental-gt>) may be a good-looking luxury grand-tourer, but it also makes a heck of a race car. The [Continental GT3](<https://www.thedrive.com/news/3810/andrew-palmers-bentley-gt3-race-car-did-not-go-airborne-in-lime-rock-crash>) foregoes Bentley's focus on subtlety, turning the dial up to 11 to comply with [FIA specifications](<https://www.thedrive.com/article/14539/fia-formally-finalizes-f1s-halo-as-mandatory-for-2018>), and it's already a hotshot. Since its debut in 2013, the original GT3 has secured 45 wins and 120 podium finishes, and the second-generation wants to raise that bar even higher.

The all-new [Bentley Continental GT3](<https://www.bentleymedia.com/en/newsitem/802>) will debut for the 2018 racing season, specifically for endurance racing championships. Bentley is eyeing the [Blancpain GT](<https://www.thedrive.com/article/10292/lamborghini-huracan-gt3-wins-third-race-in-a-row-in-blancpain-gt-series>) Series Endurance the most, and thus the new GT3's inaugural race will occur at Round 2 of Blancpain at Monza on April 22. This is also the first time Bentley's GT3-spec cars will participate in the Intercontinental GT Challenge.

Bentley Motorsport is currently working with the [M-Sport](<https://www.thedrive.com/start-finish/13352/16-year-old-rally-star-close-to-gaining-wrc-m-sport-contract>) technical team to develop the new Continental GT3, which is currently in the middle of a rigorous six-month testing period in Europe to prepare it for 24-hour endurance races.

The Continental GT3 shares little with it's road-going brother besides its name and aluminum chassis, helping it weigh less than 2,866 pounds (Bentley won't tell us the exact number), compared with the fully-loaded luxury GT's 5,000-plus pound curb weight. It also ditches the GT's 6.0-liter W-12 engine for a twin-turbocharged, 4.0-liter V8 producing more than 550 horsepower. The GT3 also sports a brand new intake, exhaust, and dry-sump oil system.

Customers can purchase the new GT3 race car starting June 2018, although Bentley won't say for [how much](<https://www.carcrushing.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/61129d1407472844-new-cosmis-mrii-st-wheel-5x108-ziqbona.png>) yet. We'd also love to know what that drop-dead gorgeous green-on-silver color scheme is called.

![message-editor%2F1510342587792-newbentleycontinentalgt3-1.jpg](<https://www.thedrive.com/wp-content/uploads/message-editor/1510342587792-newbentleycontinentalgt3-1.jpg>)
*Bentley*

![message-editor%2F1510342625163-newbentleycontinentalgt3-4.jpg](<https://www.thedrive.com/wp-content/uploads/message-editor/1510342625163-newbentleycontinentalgt3-4.jpg>)
*Bentley*

![message-editor%2F1510342610753-newbentleycontinentalgt3-3.jpg](<https://www.thedrive.com/wp-content/uploads/message-editor/1510342610753-newbentleycontinentalgt3-3.jpg>)
*Bentley*

![message-editor%2F1510342637665-newbentleycontinentalgt3-5.jpg](<https://www.thedrive.com/wp-content/uploads/message-editor/1510342637665-newbentleycontinentalgt3-5.jpg>)
*Bentley*

![message-editor%2F1510342599942-newbentleycontinentalgt3-2.jpg](<https://www.thedrive.com/wp-content/uploads/message-editor/1510342599942-newbentleycontinentalgt3-2.jpg>)
*Bentley*

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