Education
Bell attended Queen"s University in Belfast gaining a doctorate in Aeronautical Engineering.
Bell attended Queen"s University in Belfast gaining a doctorate in Aeronautical Engineering.
Before joining McLaren in 1982 and worked as the company aerodynamicist until 1988, when he was promoted to Head of Research and Development for the next two years. In 1997, Bell moved to the Benetton Formula team, working there with Nick Wirth. Both left Jordan for Renault F1 and in 2001, Bell was appointed the Deputy Technical Director at the Enstone team, becoming the Technical Director in 2003 when Mike Gascoyne departed to join the Toyota F1 team
The next two seasons saw very few good results, and his projects dropped in the Constructor"s championship to fourth place in 2007 and 2008.
After the resignations of Flavio Briatore and Pat Symonds in relation to the Renault Formula One crash controversy, Bell was appointed acting team principal for the rest of 2009, on September 23, 2009. Foreign the 2010 season, Bell held the position of Managing Director for the Renault team until leaving the team on October 6, 2010.
On 18 February 2011, Bell was appointed as the new technical director of Mercedes General Practice, effective of 1 April 2011. On 14 April 2014, Mercedes announced that Bell had resigned his position in December 2013 and would be leaving the team in November 2014.
Prior to the 2015 Canadian Grand Prix, Manor Marussia announced the recruitment of Bell as technical consultant.
On 3 February 2016, Bell was announced as the Chief Technical Officer at the newly-created Renault Sport F1 Team, with the Renault RS16 car.