TJ Bell

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TJ Bell
TJ Bell 2012
status active
NASCAR Cup Series statistics
Best placement 45th - (2011)
Starts Victories Poles Top 10
11 0 0 0
NASCAR Xfinity Series Statistics
Best placement 25th - (2012)
Starts Victories Poles Top 10
69 0 0 0
NASCAR Camping World Truck Series statistics
Best placement 15th - (2009)
Starts Victories Poles Top 10
106 0 0 13
Data status: June 23, 2017

Timothy Peter "T. J “Bell (born August 25, 1980 in Sparks ) is an American racing driver .

Racing career

Early years

Timothy Bell began his career in karting . At the age of eight he competed in his first kart races and switched to monoposto racing in 1997 . He drove in the F2000 Championship Series and the US F2000 National Championship , two American junior series. In 2000, he moved up and switched to Formula Atlantic . He finished the US championship in 2000 (Master Buddy Rice ) in eleventh place overall, and in 2001 he finished the racing season in the same place in the final standings (Master this time Hoover Orsi ).

Sports car racing

In 2002 Bell signed a driver contract with Ascari Cars . The British sports car manufacturer registered racing teams with Bell as one of the drivers in the Daytona 24 Hours , the Sebring 12 Hours and the Le Mans 24 Hours . Werner Lupberger and Harri Toivonen , the driver partners in the Ascari KZR-1, were at the race in Daytona . The race ended for the trio after 429 laps due to an engine failure. In Sebring he finished 27th overall with Lupberger and the Dane Kristian Kolby . In Le Mans , Lupberger Ben Collins joined the team. This time an accident was the reason for the premature failure.

NASCAR

Bell's NASCAR career began in 2003 . He started out in the Camping World Truck Series , where he made 106 races in the following 12 years. Among other things , he was involved with Roush Fenway Racing and achieved 13 top ten placements in his 106 starts. Between 2005 and 2016 he drove 69 races in the Xfinity Series , NASCAR's second highest racing series. He made his debut in the Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series , NASCAR's first class, at the 2011 Bojangles' Southern 500 at Darlington Raceway . In 2015, he had his last appearance in this series in the same race. So far, he has not been able to achieve top ten placements in either the Xfinity or the Cup Series.

statistics

Le Mans results

year team vehicle Teammate Teammate placement Failure reason
2002 United StatesUnited States Ascari Cars Ascari KZR-1 United KingdomUnited Kingdom Ben Collins South AfricaSouth Africa Werner Lupberger failure accident

Sebring results

year team vehicle Teammate Teammate placement Failure reason
2002 United KingdomUnited Kingdom Team Ascari Ascari KZR-1 DenmarkDenmark Kristian Kolby South AfricaSouth Africa Werner Lupberger Rank 27

Web links

Commons : TJ Bell  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ CART Toyota Atlantic Championship 2000
  2. CART Toyota Atlantic Championship 2001