Glen Bell, from Sydney in New South Wales, who is one of Australia’s all-time great motocross and supercross racers and record breakers.  

Over a racing career that spanned more than two decades at the highest level, Glen won eight Australian Motocross Championships and stood on the podium sixteen times in these national titles.  

His eight national titles in the 125cc and 500cc classes are the most ever achieved by an Australian solo rider, matching the accomplishments of fellow Motorsport Hall of Famers Gary Flood (1960s-1970s) and Jeff Leisk (1970s–1990s).

Bell also holds the record for the most Motocross of Nation appearances, representing Australia eight times. He first represented Australia at the 1985 MXoN’s in Gaildorf, Germany, with his last appearance in the green and gold in 1993 at Schwanenstadt in Austria).  

In 1988 at the MXoN’s in Villars-sous-Ecot, France, the Australian team – comprising Glen Bell (125 Honda), Craig Dack (250 Yamaha), Jeff Leisk (500 Honda) – finished fourth, which was this country’s best result at the time.

Compared to other riders who progressed through junior competition, Glen started racing at the late age of 18, in 1980. His first breakthrough win was in the prestigious 1983 125cc Gold Cup (Junior Mister Motocross) title, then that same year he won his first Australian Motocross Championship that year at Acusa Park in South Australia in the 125cc class.

Glen would go onto win eight Australian motocross championships (6 x 125cc and 2 x 500cc) with his final two National titles coming in 1991 in WA, 8 years apart. Riding Hondas that year, Bell won the Australian 500cc title in Kalgoorlie and 125cc class at Noble Falls the following week.

In 2022, AMX History updated its TOP 50 most successful racers in the history of the Australian Motocross Championships based on podium positions in the Australian Motocross Championships.  Bell was the standout leader – finishing first on 40 points – a massive 11 points ahead of the second placed getters Victorians Ray Fisher and Gary Flood in equal second.

Although Glen occasionally competed in international events and received multiple overseas contract offers, he chose to remain in Australia. In 1989 though, he contested the Round 12 French Grand Prix at Ahun, France, where he delivered an impressive performance in his debut, finishing 8th overall with moto results of 7th and 5th in the 2 x 40-minute motos.

Glen was also a standout supercross competitor during the 1980s and 1990s. During this period he dominated Australian supercross, twice winning the prestigious National Supercross Masters Series (1989 and 1993) and National Supercross Championship in 1993.

One of the highlights of his career was in 1989 when he was fifth in the Tokyo International Supercross in Japan on a Honda, against the world’s best motocross racers. French motocross legend Jean Michelle-Bayle (Honda) won the event ahead of Americans Ricky Johnson, Jeff Ward (Kawasaki) and Damon Bradshaw (Yamaha) with Bell and Australia’s runner-up World 500cc Champion Jeff Leisk s in fifth and sixth, respectively.

Bell holds the all-time Australian record winning more than 70 National and State supercross events, a record that is likely to be unbeaten given the current format of Supercross in Australia today.