{"id":37947,"date":"2013-08-06T08:56:19","date_gmt":"2013-08-06T12:56:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/?p=37947"},"modified":"2013-08-06T08:56:19","modified_gmt":"2013-08-06T12:56:19","slug":"speed-week-names-patron","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/2013\/08\/speed-week-names-patron","title":{"rendered":"Speed Week Names Patron"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/2013\/08\/speed-week-names-patron-37947.html\/bell-s\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-37948\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-37948\" title=\"bell-s\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/bell-s.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/bell-s.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/bell-s-150x112.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/bell-s-250x187.jpg 250w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a>Organizers of the 2013 Bahamas Speed Week named five-time Le Mans winner Derek Bell as race patron.<\/p>\n<p>British-born Bell was extremely successful in sports car racing. He not only won the Le Mans 24 Hour Endurance Race five times but also the Daytona 24 Hour Race three times and the World Sports Car Championship twice.<\/p>\n<p>Derek also raced in Formula One for Ferrari, McLaren, Surtees and Tecno and has been described by fellow racer Hans-Joachim Stuck as one of the most liked drivers of his generation. He has been a staunch supporter of the revival since its inception. The 2013 installment of the revival his will be Bell\u2019s third visit to Speed Week and his first in the capacity of patron.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe past two years have seen an amazing variety of cars entered for Speed Week, some of them quite astonishing,\u201d he said.\u00a0 \u201cBut no matter what cars they bring, the entrants all have one thing in common. They are all \u2018hell bent\u2019 on enjoying themselves and their cars.\u00a0 And what a place to do it!\u00a0 There are some fabulous cars and some familiar names on this year\u2019s entry list. I can\u2019t wait!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Bell set unofficial Fastest Time of the Day in the Fort Charlotte Hillclimb last year in Peter Vlasov\u2019s gorgeous Ferrari 550 Maranello and looks forward to competing and giving guest drives once again this December.<\/p>\n<p><em><span style=\"color: #888888;\">Source: Tourism Today<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Organizers of the 2013 Bahamas Speed Week named five-time Le Mans winner Derek Bell as race patron.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"rop_custom_images_group":[],"rop_custom_messages_group":[],"rop_publish_now":"initial","rop_publish_now_accounts":{"facebook_10223285771444175_51037792744":""},"rop_publish_now_history":[],"rop_publish_now_status":"pending","footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-37947","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37947","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=37947"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37947\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37947"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37947"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37947"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}