Full Name: Justin Derek Bell
Birth date: February 23rd, 1968
Birthplace: Rustington, Sussex, England
Residence: Delray Beach, Florida
Marital Status: Married to Sarah
Children: Oliver, Tallulah
Corvette Racing 2000
Justin Bell is the son of Derek Bell five times Le Mans race winner. Justin and his father raced together in the 1992 24 Hours of Le Mans and the 1995 24 Hours of Le Mans. He failed to qualify for the 1996 Indianapolis 500 in a 4 year old Lola chassis. In 1997 Bell won the FIA GT2 Championship driving for the French Oreca team in a Viper GTS-R, he also drove for Oreca in 1998 and 1999 in the FIA GT and also at Le Mans from 1997 to 1999 the highlight being a class win in 1998.
In 2000 joined Corvette Racing for the whole season in ALMS plus Le Mans and Daytona. He finished 2nd overall at Daytona in his first race for the team. At Le Mans he collapsed due to heat exhaustion early on the Sunday afternoon at the end of his last stint in the car. Bell was replaced by Johnny O’Connell from 2001 onwards.
24 Hours of Le Mans Race History
Year | Position | Drivers | Car | Team | Class | Position in Class |
1991 | DNQ | Justin Bell / GB
Shunji Kasuya / J Franco Scapini / I |
#42 Spice SE 88 P | Euroracing – classic TFR | S2 | DNQ |
1992 | 12th | Derek Bell / GB
Tiff Needell / GB Justin Bell / GB |
#53 Porsche 962 GTi | ADA Engineering | C3 | 5th |
1994 | 12th | René Arnoux / F
Justin Bell / GB Bertrand Balas / F |
#40 Dodge Viper R/T 10 | Rent-a-Car Racing Team | LM GT1 | 3rd |
1995 | 3rd | Andy Wallace / GB
Derek Bell / GB Justin Bell / GB |
#51 McLaren F1 GTR | Harrods Mach One | GT1 | 2nd |
1996 | DNF | Dominique Dupuy / F
Perry McCarthy / GB Justin Bell / GB |
#51 Chrysler Viper GTS-R | Société Viper Team Oreca | LM GT1 | Unclassified |
1997 | 14th | Justin Bell / GB
John Morton / USA Pierre Yver / F |
#63 Chrysler Viper GTS-R | Viper Team Oreca | GT2 | 5th |
1998 | 11th | Justin Bell / GB
David Donohue / USA Luca Drudi / I |
#53 Chrysler Viper GTS-R | Viper Team Oreca | GT2 | 1st |
1999 | 12th | Tommy Archer / USA
Justin Bell / GB Marc Duez / B |
#52 Chrysler Viper GTS-R | Viper Team Oreca | GT2 | 2nd |
2000 | 11th | Ron Fellows / CAN
Chris Kneifel / USA Justin Bell / GB |
#63 Corvette C5R | Corvette Racing | LM GTS | 4th |
Courtesy of Nigel S. Dobbie, Author of Corvette Racing: The GT1 Years