🇺🇸 Matt Bell

Matt Bell is a professional endurance racing driver competing in multiclass GT and prototype championships across North America. Graded FIA Silver, he races shared-car endurance events including GT World Challenge America, where he competes in the Pro-Am class driving a GT3 car for DXDT Racing, and McLaren Trophy America for Hooper Street Racing. His primary indexed racing runs from 2012 through 2026 across eight seasons.[1]

Bell has contested five national and international endurance series, with his longest tenure in Le Mans Cup, where he made 14 starts for COOL Racing from 2017 to 2021 and took one win and four podiums. His most active recent campaign came in 2025 in GT World Challenge America, where he scored four wins and ten podiums across twelve starts. He also raced GT4 America in 2024 with one win in eight starts, competed in the Road to Le Mans qualifying series across six starts with three podiums, made four starts in IMSA WeatherTech GTD racing, and contested the NASCAR Xfinity road and street rounds in 2012–2017. In 2021, Bell drove for COOL Racing when the team won the Le Mans Cup championship. He has also made a single World Endurance Championship start in 2012.[2]

Bell runs closely matched with fellow professionals Gray Newell and Anthony Wells across the national endurance grid. His record includes wins against established professionals; he has beaten Platinum-graded Maro Engel, 2024 GT World Challenge Europe champion, in head-to-head racing, and twice finished ahead of Austin Cindric, a two-time NASCAR Xfinity champion now competing in the NASCAR Cup Series. At DXDT Racing, he shares a team with one of the sport's stronger operations, fielding drivers including elite professional Scott McLaughlin across a portfolio of 24 drivers and 29 race wins in the indexed record.