🇦🇹 Rene Rast

René Rast is an established professional racing driver holding FIA Platinum grading, the highest level in sportscar and endurance racing. He competes across multiple series including the DTM touring-car championship, the World Endurance Championship, and Formula E, racing solo in single-class championships and as part of shared-car teams in international multiclass and endurance grids. His primary team is Audi Sport Team Rosberg in the DTM, where he has spent the bulk of his career.[1]

Rast won the DTM championship three consecutive times between 2018 and 2020 with Audi Sport Team Rosberg, taking 28 wins across his 104 DTM starts. In the World Endurance Championship he has competed since 2014 with BMW M Team WRT, recording four wins and ten podiums from 38 starts; he recently contributed to BMW M Motorsport's first overall podium at Le Mans since 1999. His Formula E campaign between 2019 and 2023 yielded three podiums from 31 entries. He has also raced in the IMSA WeatherTech championship, taking three podiums from eleven starts in its prototype classes, and in the Nürburgring Langstrecken-Serie where he scored one win in fifteen attempts. His record across all indexed series totals 207 starts, 33 wins and 72 podiums.[2]

In the DTM, a national championship mixing amateur and professional entrants, Rast usually finishes ahead of Marco Wittmann, an established professional and former FIA Formula 3 European champion with 127 DTM starts to his name, and runs closely matched with Nico Müller, another established professional who has raced Formula E and the lower single-seater categories. Beyond touring cars, he has finished ahead of Pascal Wehrlein, an elite professional who won the 2024 Formula E championship, in sixteen meetings across Formula E and endurance racing.