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Tony Bell, who owned Spectrum Motorsports with millionaire partner Jamie Mazzotta, is no longer involved with the Irvine, California dealership.

When Bell and Mazzotta bought Honda Kawasaki Sports Center in 2000, the shop was ranked in the bottom 50 of about 1700 Honda dealers in the U.S., in terms of sales.

Bell was Managing Director and ran the business, which he renamed, relocated and converted into a Honda-only dealership.

The shop added Aprilia in 2001 and Ducati in 2002. In terms of sales, Spectrum recently ranked in the top 100 U.S. Honda dealers, in the top three Ducati dealers and in the top 25 Aprilia dealers.

Mazzotta owned KMS Hair Care when he and Bell became partners. Mazzotta has since sold KMS and has divorced from his wife of 23 years, Cheryl, a familiar paddock visitor and dinner party host during events held at Laguna Seca, near her home. The couple have two sons, former motorcycle racer Hawk and former car racer Zack.

Since Bell’s departure, General Manager David Pyles has been running Spectrum Motorsports.

Bell is the husband of former road racer Vicky Jackson-Bell, and used to tune her racebikes.

Reached by Roadracingworld.com, Bell declined to comment on the split but said that he is attempting to buy a Ducati dealership in Southern California.

At post time, Roadracingworld.com was unable to reach Jamie Mazzotta at Spectrum Motorsports, but left him a phone message asking him to return the call.

Ducati North America spokesman Vince Chiaro told Roadracingworld.com “We were all sad to hear that Tony and his partner had parted ways; hopefully, he will still have a relationship with Ducati. Spectrum’s been great for us, so we’d love to see Tony still involved with Ducati in some capacity. I know he and Brad Hagi, our area sales manager for the west coast, were talking about possible opportunities.”

Aprilia USA spokesman Robert Pandya told Roadracingworld.com that the company is having an open house at Spectrum Motorsports on Saturday, April 10 but did not have any official comment regarding Bell’s departure from the dealership.

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