Bentley’s ‘Balletic’ New Supersports Delivers a Smooth Performance

As the old roadster comes to life on a narrow hillside road, the cacophony of the 12-cylinder engine only amplifies my sense of exposure and vulnerability—and that’s just from the passenger seat. But then I’m riding shotgun in a 1925 Bentley Super Sports, the British marque’s first model to send the speedometer’s needle past 100 mph. For my turn behind the wheel, I don a helmet and make my way to another similarly monikered two-seater waiting in pit lane. Although the cars are…