Bentley Brooklands | Spotted

If you, like me, can see that big can be beautiful, then maybe you’ll appreciate this. The Bentley Brooklands is certainly a big old beast, but by crikey it still manages to deliver beauty in spades, don’t you think? As you might be aware by now, I have a soft spot for Bentleys and Rolls-Royces, but mostly the older stuff from the ‘60s, ‘70s, 80’s and ‘90s.

It looked, to my eyes, a bit of a pastiche Bentley, rather than a proper Bentley. It had too much preformed plastic around its nose for a start ­– and I might be misremembering this, but I seem to recall the front wings of the early GTs were plastic, too. Plastic wings on a Bentley? Come on, that’s just wrong.

People pay more for something that’s made by hand, but what if that hand is shaking because last night’s beer is diluting the blood running through its veins. Then what’s turned out might be half-arsed and a bit wonky, because humans are fallible and inconsistent. My mate Craig, who I did my apprenticeship with, was and still is a Bentley mechanic.

It’s the same thing with sport. When I watch Formula 1, there is a little part of my subconscious brain that goes ‘Yeah, I could do that’. Don’t get me wrong: my conscious brain knows that’s not true. It’s hubris, but because F1 cars are just cars, and I can drive cars reasonably well having done so since the age of 10, somehow it doesn’t seem that otherworldly.

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