'Mandela' breaks UK speed record in a Bentley

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PENDINE SANDS, Wales - Idris Elba, star of Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom and The Wire, piloted a Bentley to break the historic ‘Flying Mile’ UK land speed record set by Sir Malcolm Campbell in 1927.

The award-winning actor reached 290km/h at the wheel of a Bentley Continental GT Speed on Pendine Sands on the coast of Wales. The record had stood at 281km/h, set by Sir Malcolm 88 years earlier, in his Napier-Campbell Blue Bird.