When a Brit called Matt Bell turned up in the LMP3 class of the European Le Mans Series in 2023 there was inevitably some confusion. A presumption was made that it was the same Matt Bell who was racing a P3 in the ELMS-supporting Le Mans Cup having been a fixture in international sportscars for a dozen or more years.
But if there were any aficionados of junior single-seaters in the paddock, they would have understood that there were now two drivers of the same name in town.
