🇧🇷 Fernando Rees

Fernando Rees is a professional driver who raced primarily in the World Endurance Championship between 2012 and 2017, competing in multiclass endurance racing with shared-driver GTE cars for Larbre Competition. He drove one season in Formula V8 3.5, a single-class semi-professional-to-professional field, in 2005, and made one start in the Nürburgring Langstrecken-Serie in a modified production-based car.[1]

Rees took one WEC victory across 31 starts in the championship, accompanied by four additional podiums in that series. His only indexed start in the Nürburgring Langstrecken-Serie did not yield a finish. In Formula V8 3.5, his six starts produced no podiums. His last WEC campaign in 2017 saw him finish 14th in the championship standings across a single round. He retired from racing in 2018.[2]

His WEC career placed him regularly against drivers of considerably higher calibre. He usually finished behind Davide Rigon, a Platinum-graded professional and 2016 WEC LMGTE Pro champion, and James Calado, an established professional who won the LMGTE Pro title four times between 2017 and 2022. Rees twice finished ahead of Kevin Estre, a Platinum-graded established professional and two-time WEC champion, and once ahead of Pastor Maldonado, the 2010 GP2 Series champion who raced Formula 1. Larbre Competition, his primary team, fielded thirty drivers across the database with its strongest driver an established professional, and took nine race wins.