“I grew up surrounded by racing. I use to live very close to the Snetterton race track in Norwich. My dad owned the local gas, hotel, and pub combination. He was a keen supporter of racing and a lot of the drivers would come by and my dad would take
care of them. The place was decorated in a racing motif and I was immersed in racing from an early age,” explains Dyson Racing driver Ben Devlin.

Ben began his racing career at the age of 12 in karting, honing his craft in three different formulas. Three years later, Ben joined the Jim Russell School of Racing at Donnington, received his license when he was sixteen and won his first single seater race. He put his mark on the series by winning the next four consecutive races.

Having achieved these five wins, Ben earned the opportunity to compete for the school’s scholarship. He won the scholarship and received his first taste of racing in the United States by competing in the finals at Sears Point, CA. He won that first race also.

Ben’s career was further boosted in 2000 when he became the 'Young Star' in the Lotus Autobytel Ellise Championship Series, racing under the TOCA banner. At the age of twenty, he was learning some of the more famous European circuits including Spa in Belgium, Nurburgring in Germany, and Magny-Coeurs in France.

Seeking to further broaden his career, Ben went back to the U.S. the next year, racing in the Grand American Rolex Sports Car Series driving a Nissan Lola SRPII for Archangel Motorsport. He raced four races in Grand -Am starting with a debut win at Road America and followed by a win at Watkins Glen and two second places at Daytona and Trois Rivieres. He also raced in the ALMS at Road Atlanta, where he co-drove to a second in class in the ten-hour classic endurance race.

He campaigned the full ALMS LMP2 championship in 2002, taking class wins at Infineon and Road America and finishing second in the championship. Ben had found a home and he continued successfully racing in the American Le Mans Series the next four years. His competitive forte in prototype sports car racing was further recognized in 2007 when he was picked as a driver for the Mazda Lola LMP2 car of B-K Motorsports, driving the Lola for two years.

In 2009, Ben brought his multi-year knowledge of the Mazda-Lola package to Dyson Racing. He raced at Sebring, Petit Le Mans and Mazda Raceway, scoring two podium finishes in the #20 BP Mazda Lola coupe with Butch Leitzinger and Marino Franchitti, including a class win at the Petit Le Mans – the first for the team and the first for Mazda.

Devlin noted that “it was a good season. We knew that starting the year with a new car and new engine program was going to be starting on our back foot. Sebring was a learning experience, but with every race we went forward. It has been nice to see the car’s potential being developed and coming forward so that at every race we ran quicker.”