Ray Bellm






Ray Bellm (born 20 May 1950) is an auto racing driver from Britain.


He began his racing career in 1980, running in Historic racing series and winning the British Historic 2L GT class in 1983 and 1984 driving his Chevron B19 sports car. He made the move to modern sports car racing in 1984, driving for Gordon Spice. The pair would found Spice Engineering in 1985 and construct Group C chassis.


As part of the Spice team, Bellm would win the World Sportscar C2 Championship in 1985, 1986 and 1988. He was also able to share a Le Mans win with Gordon Spice in each of those three years, before finally leaving the team in 1990.[1]


In the early 1990s he moved to the British Touring Car Championship, driving for Vic Lee Motorsport, finishing fifth overall in 1991. Following Lee's arrest and imprisonment for drug trafficking, Bellm and Steve Neal co-founded Team Dynamics in 1993, eventually selling his share in the company to Neal.[2] He won the International GT championship in 1994, and the BPR Global GT Series in 1996 driving a McLaren F1 GTR to 11 wins in two years. He also won the 1991 Willhire 24 Hour at Snetterton in a BMW M3 co-driven with Kurt Luby and Will Hoy.


Since then he has returned to Historics, including running the Le Mans Classic in 2004 and 2006. He also turned to rallying coming sixth in the 2000 London-Sydney Rally and in 2005 won three rounds of the British Historic Rally Championship in a Mk1 Ford Escort.[3] In 2005 he contested the British round of the World Rally Championship in Group N classed car finishing seventh. In 2006 he finished sixth in Finland and twelfth in Rally Great Britain.


He has served as chairman of the British Racing Drivers' Club (BRDC) from 2004 to 2005, and was responsible for negotiations with Formula One Management which resulted in the successful resigning of the British Grand Prix in 2005.


Bellm also owned and ran the Silverstone based motorsport equipment retailer, Grand Prix Racewear, having bought a majority stake in 1994.[4]


In 2011, Bellm started the 106 Drivers Club, an event based company to run social road car tours for owners of the iconic 3 seater Mclaren F1. Celebrating milestone anniversaries, the 20th and 25th anniversaries attracted 22 chassis of the 103 that remain.




Contents






  • 1 Racing record


    • 1.1 24 Hours of Le Mans results


    • 1.2 Complete British Touring Car Championship results




  • 2 References


  • 3 External links





Racing record



24 Hours of Le Mans results







































































































Year
 Team
 Co-Drivers
 Car
 Class
 Laps
Pos.
Class
Pos.

1984
United Kingdom Spice-Tiga Racing
United Kingdom Gordon Spice
Australia Neil Crang
Tiga GC84-Ford Cosworth
 C2
 69
 DNF
 DNF

1985
United Kingdom Spice Engineering
United Kingdom Gordon Spice
Republic of Ireland Mark Galvin
Spice-Tiga GC85-Ford Cosworth
 C2
 312
 14th
1st

1986
United Kingdom Spice Engineering
United Kingdom Gordon Spice
Belgium Jean-Michel Martin
Spice SE86C-Ford Cosworth
 C2
 257
 19th
 6th

1988
United Kingdom Spice Engineering
United Kingdom Gordon Spice
France Pierre de Thoisy
Spice SE88C-Ford Cosworth
 C2
 351
 13th
1st

1989
United Kingdom Spice Engineering
United Kingdom Gordon Spice
United States Lyn St. James
Spice SE89C-Ford Cosworth
 C1
 229
 DNF
 DNF

1994
United Kingdom Bristow Racing
Norway Erik Henriksen
United Kingdom Harry Nuttall
United Kingdom Charles Rickett
Porsche 911 Carrera RSR
 GT2
 34
 DNF
 DNF

1995
United Kingdom GTC Gulf Racing
United Kingdom Mark Blundell
Brazil Maurizio Sandro Sala
McLaren F1 GTR
 GT1
 291
 4th
3rd

1996
United Kingdom Gulf Racing
United Kingdom GTC Racing
United Kingdom James Weaver
Finland JJ Lehto
McLaren F1 GTR
 GT1
 323
 9th
 7th

1997
United Kingdom Gulf Team Davidoff
United Kingdom GTC Racing
United Kingdom Andrew Gilbert-Scott
Japan Masanori Sekiya
McLaren F1 GTR
 GT1
 326
 DNF
 DNF


Complete British Touring Car Championship results


(key) (Races in bold indicate pole position – 1990 in class) (Races in italics indicate fastest lap)





































































































































Year
 Team
 Car
 Class
 1
 2
 3
 4
 5
 6
 7
 8
 9
 10
 11
 12
 13
 14
 15
 16
 17
 DC
 Pts
 Class

1990
Hawaiian Tropic
Ford Sierra Sapphire
B
OUL
10
DON
Ret
THR
DNS
SIL
DNS
OUL
SIL
DNP
BRH
SNE
BRH
BIR
DNA
DON
DNS
THR
SIL



32nd
 6
 20th

1991
BMW Team Listerine
BMW M3

SIL
6
SNE
2
DON
6
THR
7
SIL
51
BRH
7
SIL
4
DON
1
6
DON
2
2
OUL
6
BRH
1
14
BRH
2
Ret
DON
4
THR
5
SIL
6

5th
 90

1992
M Team Shell Racing with Listerine
BMW 318is

SIL
9
THR
Ret
OUL
10
SNE
12
BRH
Ret
DON
1
7
DON
2
10
SIL
6
KNO
1
6
KNO
2
8
PEM
DNS
BRH
1
BRH
2
DON
SIL

13th
 15

1993
Team Dynamics
BMW 318is

SIL
DON
Ret
SNE
DNS
DON
18
OUL
BRH
1
13
BRH
2
12
PEM
17
SIL
14
KNO
1
KNO
2
OUL
BRH
THR
DON
1
DON
2
SIL
 29th
 0


  1. ^ – Race was stopped due to heavy rain. No points were awarded.


References




  1. ^ http://cars.mclaren.com/featured-articles/le-mans-memories-ray-bellm.html


  2. ^ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 1 March 2009. Retrieved 13 January 2009.CS1 maint: Archived copy as title (link).mw-parser-output cite.citation{font-style:inherit}.mw-parser-output .citation q{quotes:"""""""'""'"}.mw-parser-output .citation .cs1-lock-free a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/65/Lock-green.svg/9px-Lock-green.svg.png")no-repeat;background-position:right .1em center}.mw-parser-output .citation .cs1-lock-limited a,.mw-parser-output .citation .cs1-lock-registration a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d6/Lock-gray-alt-2.svg/9px-Lock-gray-alt-2.svg.png")no-repeat;background-position:right .1em center}.mw-parser-output .citation .cs1-lock-subscription a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/aa/Lock-red-alt-2.svg/9px-Lock-red-alt-2.svg.png")no-repeat;background-position:right .1em center}.mw-parser-output .cs1-subscription,.mw-parser-output .cs1-registration{color:#555}.mw-parser-output .cs1-subscription span,.mw-parser-output .cs1-registration span{border-bottom:1px dotted;cursor:help}.mw-parser-output .cs1-ws-icon a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/4c/Wikisource-logo.svg/12px-Wikisource-logo.svg.png")no-repeat;background-position:right .1em center}.mw-parser-output code.cs1-code{color:inherit;background:inherit;border:inherit;padding:inherit}.mw-parser-output .cs1-hidden-error{display:none;font-size:100%}.mw-parser-output .cs1-visible-error{font-size:100%}.mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{display:none;color:#33aa33;margin-left:0.3em}.mw-parser-output .cs1-subscription,.mw-parser-output .cs1-registration,.mw-parser-output .cs1-format{font-size:95%}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-left,.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-wl-left{padding-left:0.2em}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-right,.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-wl-right{padding-right:0.2em}


  3. ^ http://www.historicrallysport.co.uk/finished-builds/for-ray-bellm


  4. ^ Bio_Fiona Butterfield Archived 16 August 2011 at the Wayback Machine



External links


  • Brief career summary at btccpages.com








Sporting positions
Preceded by
Thomas Bscher
John Nielsen
BPR Global GT Series
Champion
1996 with:
James Weaver
 Succeeded by
Bernd Schneider
(FIA GT Championship)



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