Juha Kankkunen


Bentley Continental flies to world ice speed record

Most carmakers usually head somewhere warm like Nardo in Italy or the Bonneville Salt Flats to explore the upper reaches of their vehicles performance potential. Bentley went the other way recently when a Continental GT went to Oulu, Finland. Running on frozen sea ice (how much longer will be able to say that?), four-time World Rally Champion Juha Kankkunen achieved a two way average of 199.86 mph over a flying kilometer. Kankkunen was driving his own personal Continental on the six-mile course across ice that was only 28 inches thick. His ... Read more →

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