Ray Bellm

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

He began his racing career at a comparatively late age, only starting his first race in 1980.He has two children, holly and flossy. In the early stage of his career he was widely known as a successful driver in Historic racing series, winning the British Historic 2L GT class in 1983 and 1984 driving his Chevron B19 sports car. It was also in 1984 that he first tried his hand in modern sports car racing, winning several events for the Gordon Spice Racing team. In early 1985 he co-founded Group C2 manufacturer Spice Engineering with sports car driver and team owner Gordon Spice. Using various Spice chassis, he won the World Sportscar C2 Championship three years out of four in 1985,1986 and 1988, only just missing out on the title in 1987 as well. Driving alongside Gordon Spice he won the C2 class at Le Mans in 1985 1986 and 1988. He left Spice Engineering in 1990. In the early 1990s he had a spell in the BTCC, finishing 5th overall in 1991 and co-founding Team Dynamics in 1993. He won the International GT championship in 1994, and the BPR Global GT Series in 1996, having also taken 5 wins and 3rd overall in this series the previous year.He is Mclaren's most successful Mclaren F1 GTR driver with 11 wins. Since then he has once again primarily raced in Historic events such as the Le Mans Classic in 2004 and 2006 winning 9 out of 10 races in a Ford GT40, the Cento Ore winning in 2005, and the Tour Espana winning in 2005. He also turned to rallying coming 6th in the 2000 London - Sydney Rally and in 2005 won 3 rounds of the British Historic Rally Championship in a Mk 1 Ford Escort. In 2005 he contested the British round of the World Rally Championship in Group N finishing 7th and in 2006 finished 6th in Finland and 12th in Rally GB. He has also served as chairman of the British Racing Drivers' Club in 2004-5, and was responsible for negotiations with FOM which resulted in the successful signing of the current 2005-2009 British GP contract.