Bell’s Surreal Start to 2025, Magnussen’s Return, and Gatting and Gounon’s Relationship
DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. – It couldn’t be more of an understatement to say the last three weeks of Townsend Bell’s life have been unexpected and life-changing – a surprise ask by his friend, IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar Championship team co-owner Jimmy Vasser (with James “Sulli” Sullivan) to compete in the Rolex 24 At Daytona – and then much more radically, weeks later, having to evacuate his home in California as the wildfires approached.
It is Bell’s first driving role in three years, and he will be doing double duty on track as a driver in the No. 14 Vasser Sullivan Lexus RC F GT3 in the Grand Touring Daytona Pro (GTD PRO) class and in the booth as a broadcaster during the NBC telecast of the famed race…