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