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Saturday, April 26, 2014
Bentley GT3 racer
While watching
a video about a terrible pay driver on TTAC
, I noticed a Bentley racer in the background.
tl;dr version of the video: We literally removed a ton of weight from the road car, and it's still as heavy as shit.
Also, the engineer has a cool French-British accent.
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