Bell Helmets was built to inspire and enable athletes through advanced helmet innovation. We don't just make helmets; we make possibilities. Derek Bell is most widely recognised for his incredible feats in Sports Car Racing - he won the Le Mans 24 Hours no fewer than 5 times, Daytona 24 Hours 3 times and the World Sportscar Championship twice.
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This helmet, obtained direct from Derek is from 1981 when he was racing for Porsche and won Le Mans with Jacky Ickx in a Porsche 936 run by the 'works' team. Signed clearly on one side the helmet is in good condition despite having been extensively used. A rare opportunity to obtain a helmet used by one of the all-time sports car greats. In 1987 Derek Bell won for the fifth time the most grueling 24 hour race of the world; the 24 hours of Le Mans. Bell did win together with H.J. Stuck and A. Holbert with a Rothmans Porsche 962 C. Derek Bell is only one of the 3 drivers winning 5 times Le Mans. This rare Rothmans overall and helmet were worn by Derek Bell in the 1987 season. 1 June 2023, 8:56 AM Cadillac Racing driver Alex Lynn has chosen to switch helmet design for the Le Mans 24 Hours later this month. The Briton will run Derek Bell's iconic red, white and blue colours for the centenary race, paying tribute to Britain's most successful Le Mans driver. Derek Reginald Bell MBE (born 31 October 1941 in Pinner, Middlesex, England) is a British racing driver. In sportscar racing, he won the Le Mans 24 hours five times, the Daytona 24 three times and the World Sportscar Championship twice. He also raced in Formula One for the Ferrari, Wheatcroft, McLaren, Surtees and Tecno teams.
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An original Derek Bell SHOEI race helmet in white with applied blue and red stripes and a Union Jack. The driver's name, Boss and Sunrider advertising logos are present, it is complete with visor and in excellent condition. The helmet comes with letter of authenticity from Mrs Kate Norton who is Derek Bell's sister together with SHOEI helmet bag. Derek Bell remains a unique hero to those friends and fans who have followed him through motor racing's brightest and darkest moments. Now into his eighth decade, the five-time Le Mans winner remains a gracious and generous genius, not to mention a wonder of facts, figures and memories.. Max Verstappen - Helmet - World Champion - 2023. 30 April 2021 Share Live Auctioneers Want to put your noggin in the same safe space as the King of Cool? Then you're in luck as a Bell crash helmet worn by Steve McQueen during the filming of 1971's Le Mans is up for auction. Le Mans was McQueen's take on the definitive racing film. This former Ferrari F1 driver, double World Sportscar Champion and five times winner of Le Mans. But what is really implausible is that today, Derek Bell hits 80. Still racing, he looks ludicrously fit and well, the last 20 years of ageing being something he appears able to have opted out of entirely.
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Derek Bell is among their number. The five-time Le Mans winner and indubitable national treasure will always be most associated with Porsche, but he'll be forever proud of his status as a bona fide factory Ferrari ace too - even if he readily admits it did him very little good. "I left Ferrari [mid-1969] and had nowhere to go," says Bell today. Derek Bell was a successful driver for Porsche on and off for 35 years," says Thomas Laudenbach, Head of Porsche Motorsport. Born on 31 October 1941 in the London suburb of Pinner in Middlesex, Bell was 23 when he began his racing career at British club events.
After such a wide ranging and successful career every true-blue motor racing fan will understand Derek Bell's point of view but we will all wonder, just a bit, what it would have been like to see that famous white crash helmet with the blue and orange stripes through the iconic side window of a 917 at Le Mans. Popular Articles Seán Ward. As well as being a man who never ages, Derek Bell is a five-time Le Mans winner, former F1 driver, regular Goodwood racer and generally a very nice human. For the 1987 RAC Rally, the final round of that year's championship, he was a WRC driver, too. What we have here is a short but oh-so-sweet clip from Bell in his Opel Kadett GSi.
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180. The Andrettis, Mansells and Brundles have raced at the Le Mans 24 Hours, but so have the Bells in father Derek and son Justin. While Derek is famous for his success at the Circuit de la Sarthe, taking five victories there alongside multiple successes at the Daytona 24 Hours and in the World Sportscar Championship, son Justin also carved. The British trio led the race for a long time in dreadful conditions - courtesy of some inspired night-time stints by Derek Bell and Wallace - before gearbox problems relegated them to third by the time the chequered flag fell. "Joining forces with RetroClassic Clothing has been a lot of fun," said Bell.
