Bentley has turned its most extreme grand tourer into a cinematic weapon, handing the new Bentley Supersports to Travis Pastrana and inviting him to treat the company’s Crewe headquarters like a closed-course playground. The resulting film, a gymkhana-style barrage of drifts and jumps, reframes the brand’s traditional luxury image through clouds of tire smoke and the bark of a 666 PS rear-drive coupe. It is both a showcase of brutal performance and a carefully staged statement about where Bentley wants its future to go.

Rather than relying on computer trickery or studio backlots, the project uses the real factory campus, real heritage cars, and a production-based Supersports that has been sharpened specifically for Pastrana’s style of driving. The car is already sold out, yet Bentley is still investing in a high-profile stunt film to underline what its most driver-focused model can do when the safety nets are loosened.

The Supersports as Bentley’s new performance flagship

The new Bentley Supersports arrives as a statement of intent, positioned as the most dynamic interpretation of the Continental GT formula that the company has yet put on the road. With 666 PS sent to the rear wheels, it trades the all-weather security of all-wheel drive for a more purist, tail-happy character that suits the demands of a stunt driver like Travis Pastrana. Official material from Crewe describes the car’s agility and performance as exceptional, and the decision to build it in a limited run of 500 units underscores its role as a halo model rather than a mainstream variant.

Although the Supersports in the film is modified for drifting, the underlying package remains rooted in the production car’s hardware and proportions. The long bonnet, short overhangs, and wide track give Pastrana a stable platform to lean on as he pitches the coupe into long, arcing slides around the Crewe site. Bentley has long promoted the performance credentials of its cars, but the Supersports project pushes that message further by allowing the car to be seen at the limit, rather than merely discussed in terms of acceleration figures or lap times.

Travis Pastrana turns Crewe into a gymkhana stage

Travis Pastrana’s presence transforms what could have been a conventional brand film into something closer to a motorsport spectacle. Known for rally, motocross, and gymkhana-style videos, he approaches the Bentley Supersports as a tool for precision chaos, threading it through tight factory roads and open courtyards with the same commitment he brings to competition stages. From the moment he fires up the 666 PS rear-drive coupe at Crewe, the tone is set for a full-send tour of the campus that leaves little doubt about his comfort at the edge of adhesion.

The film’s choreography leans heavily on Pastrana’s ability to link drifts, transition weight, and place the car within inches of obstacles without breaking the flow. Social clips from the shoot describe “total chaos” at Bentley’s historic headquarters, but the underlying reality is a carefully controlled environment in which a dedicated team of technicians supports every run. That structure allows Pastrana to push harder, knowing that the Supersports has been prepared specifically for repeated high-load maneuvers and that the campus has been mapped out to accommodate his most ambitious lines.

Factory playground: Crewe’s heritage in the spotlight

By opening the gates of its Crewe headquarters to a stunt production, Bentley turns its own factory into a co-star. The film takes viewers on a sideways tour of the campus, weaving past assembly buildings and test areas while dropping in visual nods to the brand’s past and future. Among the Easter eggs are Pikes Peak challengers, classic Blower Bentleys, and a Brooklands that joins in the tire-smoking festivities, reinforcing the idea that the Supersports is part of a long lineage of performance-focused machinery rather than an isolated experiment.

The decision to stage the action on home turf also serves a strategic purpose for Bentley. It allows the company to showcase its Heritage Collection in motion, rather than as static museum pieces, and to hint at upcoming products such as a smaller SUV and the EXP 15 concept car that appear briefly in the background. The Supersports used in the film, often referred to as the “FULL SEND” car, is set to remain in Crewe as part of that Heritage Collection, and will feature at Bentley’s 2026 events, which turns a one-off stunt build into a rolling ambassador for the brand’s more extroverted side.

Engineering a drift-ready Bentley

To make a heavy, luxury-focused coupe behave like a gymkhana car, Bentley’s engineers had to relax some of the electronic restraints that normally keep a road car tidy. Reports from the project note that the Supersports in the film received a software calibration that allows the throttle and brake to be used simultaneously, a key requirement for burnouts and mid-corner attitude adjustments. In standard form, the production car would not permit that kind of overlap, since most stability systems are designed to prevent drivers from unsettling the chassis in such a dramatic way.

The most visible modification is a substantial hydraulic handbrake, or “drift stick,” installed to help Pastrana initiate slides on command. This lever, which is not part of the production specification, is even personalized with the name “Mildred” stitched into the handle, a tribute to Bentley Girl Mildred Mary Petre that links the modern stunt car to the brand’s early motorsport pioneers. Additional underbody protection is suggested by the way the Supersports is driven over rougher surfaces and jumps, although the core suspension and powertrain remain recognizably close to the road-going version, reinforcing the message that the car’s basic architecture is capable of this level of abuse when properly set up.

Marketing muscle: a sold-out car that still needs a story

On paper, promoting a car that is already sold out might seem unnecessary, yet Bentley’s approach with the Supersports film is less about shifting the final units and more about shaping perception. With only 500 units allocated and spoken for, the model’s commercial success is already secured, but the brand still benefits from a high-impact demonstration of what its most driver-focused coupe can do. The film functions as a rolling love letter to Bentley’s past and future, using the Supersports as a lens through which to view the company’s heritage, its current engineering capabilities, and its ambitions for the next generation of products.

In an era when performance cars increasingly share similar acceleration numbers, narrative and imagery become powerful differentiators. By commissioning a gymkhana-style production with Travis Pastrana at Crewe, Bentley positions itself alongside more overtly motorsport-oriented brands while retaining its identity as a maker of luxurious grand tourers. The Supersports, fully unleashed in this context, signals that the company is willing to let its cars be seen in a raw, unsanitized way, even if that means watching a meticulously crafted interior fill with tire smoke as the rear tires light up and the car arcs through corners in full opposite lock.

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