Bentley Motors has announced the appointment of Paul Williams as the organization’s new director of motorsports. Williams replaces Brian Gush, who will bring a 20-year Bentley career to a close on August 1.

“Paul has been an outstanding member of our engineering team for more than 10 years, and as our powertrain expert, he is well placed to take on Bentley Motorsport – where his V8 engine faces its toughest tests. He has a passion for racing and he will take our motorsport team from strength to strength. On behalf of Bentley Motors I extend my heartfelt gratitude to the loyal and dedicated service of Brian Gush for the last two decades, and wish him a happy and relaxing retirement,” Member of the Board for Engineering Werner Tietz said.

Williams joined Bentley in 2008 and joins Bentley Motorsport from his current role as Director of Powertrain.

Gush leaves Bentley as only its second Director of Motorsport in history, with W.O. Bentley himself being the first. Among several accomplishments over his 20 years with Bentley, Gush brought racing back to the organization in 2001 after a 70-year absence from the track. Bentley scored third place at the Le Mans 24 Hours that year before taking the famous first and second finish at the 2003 race—Bentley’s sixth Le Mans victory. Since 2012, his focus has been the GT3 racing program developed from the second-generation Continental GT, before taking the all-new third-generation car and launching a new Continental GT3 in 2018.

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Image of Paul Willams, left, and Brian Gush courtesy of Bentley