Justin Bell

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Career

Like many successful car racers, Justin Bell nurtured and developed his passion for speed and competitive racing at an early age. With natural talent and the encouragement of his father Derek Bell, a five-time Le Mans 24 hours winner, he started out fast and got faster, and soon began carving his own place in history. Since beginning his career in 1988, Justin has achieved many significant racing accomplishments, including the 1997 FIA GT2 Championship, winning the 24 Hours of Le Mans GT2 class in 1998 and second-place finishes in Le Mans and Daytona, and a pair of SCCA Trans-Am wins.

Along the way he raced for major car manufacturers including Saab, Peugeot, Porsche, BMW, Dodge and General Motors. For Dodge Viper, he won the 1997 FIA GT2 world championship and the GT2 class at Le Mans in 1998. In 2000 Justin signed with General Motors as a driver for the factory Corvette Racing team, finishing second in the Daytona 24 Hours, the 24 Hours of Le Mans and Petit Le Mans.

Early in his career, as Justin made consistent progress through a variety of racing categories, all the while appearing in various television programs. In 1993, he was co-host of the motor sports television program 555 Performance World, which ran on Asia's largest satellite network Star TV and was seen by over 80 million viewers. This led to him hosting a six-part series, The International Young Driver of the Year on BBC television.

Since 2005 Justin has worked frequently with Speed Channel (now Fox Sports 1) as a host of various live and format based TV shows, such as the Barrett Jackson Auctions, American Le Mans Series, Grand American Racing, IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar Championship, Test Drive and Shut up and Drive.

Justin co-founded Torque Media Group in 2018 with Tommy Kendall and Jason Jacobson. Breaking with the traditional TV model the trio created The Torque Show as a branded Livestream Show to support Michelin in the IMSA Series. Evolving into a vibrant chat show style format, JB and TK interview the highest profile people in the Sportscar world, attracting a huge audience on their Facebook Live channel.

Another series integrated into The Torque Show is 'The Love of Cars' presented by Hagerty, which has seen guests such as Jay Leno, Patrick Dempsey and Danny Trejo.

Drawing on their vast experience in Live sports broadcasting, and led by the producing talents of Jason Jacobson, the company branched out into live event hosting with the Audrain Newport Concours and Motorweek and the incredibly prestigious honor of hosting and producing the livestream for the Pebble beach Concours d'Elegance in 2021.

Other career milestones. Justin and his father raced together in the 1992 24 Hours of Le Mans and the 1995 24 Hours of Le Mans. He tried to qualify for the 1996 Indianapolis 500 in a 4 year old Lola chassis. Later in 1997, he won the FIA GT championship in the GT2 class[2] in a Dodge Viper GTS-R, racing for Team Oreca. From 2000 to 2004 he had his own racing school which trained the pupils with Chevrolet Corvette cars.[3] In 2001-2003 he raced in the Trans Am Series, winning two major races at Houston and Mazda Raceway Laguna Seca and took the Rookie of the Year title.[4] In 2009 Bell debuted as the driving instructor for the celebrities on The Jay Leno Show[2] where he also interviews the celebrity for the website.

Complete 24 Hours of Le Mans results

Year Team Co-Drivers Car Class Laps <templatestyles src="Template:Tooltip/styles.css" />Pos.Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". <templatestyles src="Template:Tooltip/styles.css" />Class
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1991 Template:Flagicon Euro Racing Template:Flagicon Shunji Kasuya Spice SE88P C2 - DNQ DNQ
1992 Template:Flagicon ADA Engineering Template:Flagicon Tiff Needell
Template:Flagicon Derek Bell 		Porsche 962C GTi C3 284 12th 5th
1994 Template:Flagicon Rent-A-Car Racing Team
Template:Flagicon Luigi Racing 		Template:Flagicon René Arnoux
Template:Flagicon Bertrand Balas 		Dodge Viper RT/10 LM GT1 273 12th 3rd
1995 Template:Flagicon Harrods Mach One Racing
Template:Flagicon David Price Racing 		Template:Flagicon Andy Wallace
Template:Flagicon Derek Bell 		McLaren F1 GTR GT1 296 3rd 2nd
1996 Template:Flagicon Viper Team Oreca Template:Flagicon Dominique Dupuy
Template:Flagicon Perry McCarthy 		Chrysler Viper GTS-R GT1 96 DNF DNF
1997 Template:Flagicon Viper Team Oreca Template:Flagicon Pierre Yver
Template:Flagicon John Morton 		Chrysler Viper GTS-R GT2 278 14th 5th
1998 Template:Flagicon Viper Team Oreca Template:Flagicon David Donohue
Template:Flagicon Luca Drudi 		Chrysler Viper GTS-R GT2 317 11th 1st
1999 Template:Flagicon Viper Team Oreca Template:Flagicon Tommy Archer
Template:Flagicon Marc Duez 		Chrysler Viper GTS-R GT2 318 12th 2nd
2000 Template:Flagicon Corvette Racing Template:Flagicon Ron Fellows
Template:Flagicon Chris Kneifel 		Chevrolet Corvette C5R LM GTS 326 11th 4th

Complete Japanese Touring Car Championship (1994-) results

Year Team Car 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 DC Pts
1995 HKS Opel Team Japan Opel Vectra FUJ
1
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2
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1
14Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". 		SUG
2
7Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". 		TOK
1
15Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". 		TOK
2
14Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". 		SUZ
1
10Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". 		SUZ
2
RetScript error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". 		MIN
1
18Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". 		MIN
2
16Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". 		AID
1
7Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". 		AID
2
6Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". 		SEN
1
5Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". 		SEN
2
4Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". 		FUJ
1
7Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". 		FUJ
2
10Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". 		11th 32

IRL IndyCar Series

Year Team Chassis No. Engine 1 2 3 Rank Points Ref
1996 Tempero–Giuffre Racing Lola T92 15 Buick WDW PHX INDY
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References

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