After a lengthy hiatus, Matt Bell returned to racing in 2021 and has since impressed on the European stage. But in getting his name established, he has faced an unusual obstacle
When a Brit called Matt Bell turned up in the LMP3 class of the European Le Mans Series in 2023 there was inevitably some confusion. A presumption was made that it was the same Matt Bell who was racing a P3 in the ELMS-supporting Le Mans Cup having been a fixture in international sportscars for a dozen or more years. But if there were any aficionados of junior single-seaters in the paddock, they would have understood that there were now two drivers of the same name in town.
He returned by chance six years later when he got a late pre-season call from old friend Rob Wheldon at RAW Motorsports, who’d helped him out back in 2012. Bell insists that he has no racing ambitions beyond making it third time lucky in P3 in 2025 and being invited to join the British Racing Drivers’ Club “Rob rang me and told me that they’d had someone pull out at the last moment and asked if I’d fancy coming back,” Bell remembers. “I thought, 'you know what, I do'.
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