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    Eastick finally finishes his father’s Bentley job

    Aug 12, 2021 4 minutes
    PAUL LAWRENCE

    SILVERSTONE

    BDC

    7 AUGUST

    Ben Eastick finally achieved a lifetime ambition at the Bentley Drivers Club’s 73rd race meeting at Silverstone last Saturday.

    Eastick’s father Barry started his incredible Bentley T Type special from pole in the 1977 running of the Times Trophy, but crashed in the race, halted development on the low-line special, and later sold it. At the time, young Eastick Jr made a promise to one day get it back and prove it to be a winner.

    Forty years on, Ben finally acquired the car and started having it rebuilt with the prime target

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