Rui Águas is a racing driver from Portugal who competes in GT Winter Series for AF Corse. Águas is a two-time champion (2013, 2016), with 6 wins and 27 podiums from 88 starts.[1]
A Racer Rating of 3,979 ranks Águas 3624th of 38,983 indexed drivers, on an Elo scale where the strongest reach the high 8,000s. It is built from every indexed race in the driver's file.
| 2025-03-09 | Circuit de Barcelona-Catalunya CUP 1 | P2 | +10 |
| 2025-03-08 | Circuit de Barcelona-Catalunya CUP 1 | P2 | +20 |
| 2025-02-16 | Valencia CUP 1 | P4 | −5 |
| 2025-02-15 | Valencia CUP 1 | P5 | −51 |
| 2025-01-26 | Autodromo Internacional Algarve CUP 1 | P2 | +20 |
| Rating won | Race | Series | Finish |
|---|---|---|---|
| +124 | SPA FRANCORCHAMPS 2013 | WEC | P1 |
| +120 | SHANGHAI INTERNATIONAL CIRCUIT 2013 | WEC | P1 |
| +120 | A1-Ring 1997 | International Formula 3000 | P4 |
| +104 | SILVERSTONE 2016 | WEC | P1 |
| +101 | SHANGHAI INTERNATIONAL CIRCUIT 2015 | WEC | P1 |
| Season | Series | Team | Races | Wins | Podiums | DNFs | Poles | Points | Pos | Gain/Loss | Rating |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | ▸GT Winter Series | AF Corse | 10 | 2 | 7 | 0 | 0 | 0 | P2 | −158 | 3,979 |
| 2023 | ▸European Le Mans Series | AF Corse | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — | −72 | 4,137 |
| 2022 | ▸Le Mans Cup | AF Corse | 4 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | P22 | −461 | 4,210 |
| 2021 | ▸Le Mans Cup | AF Corse | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | P18 | −553 | 4,670 |
| 2019 | ▸Road to Le Mans | Spirit of Race | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — | −151 | 5,223 |
| 2018 | ▸24H Series | Black Falcon | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | P25 | −164 | 5,223 |
| 2016 | ▸WEC | AF Corse | 9 | 1 | 8 | 0 | 0 | 0 | P1 | +131 | 5,538 |
| 2015 | ▸WEC | AF Corse | 7 | 1 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 0 | P4 | +290 | 5,600 |
| ▸IMSA WeatherTech | AF Corse | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | P36 | +11 | ||
| 2013 | ▸WEC | 8 Star Motorsports | 8 | 2 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | P1 | +338 | 5,106 |
| 2012 | ▸WEC | AF Corse-Waltrip | 5 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | P10 | −248 | 4,768 |
| 2007 | ▸FIA GT Championship | Advanced Engineering | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | P30 | −218 | 5,016 |
| 2006 | ▸FIA GT Championship | AF Corse | 10 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | P23 | −256 | 5,234 |
| 1998 | ▸International Formula 3000 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | P20 | −160 | 5,490 | |
| 1997 | ▸International Formula 3000 | Nordic Racing | 10 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | P9 | ↑844+125 | 5,650 |
| 1996 | ▸Formula 3 Macau | KMS Benetton Formula | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — | +3,331 | 4,681 |
| Rival | Rating | Raced | Ahead | Behind | Record |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 🇩🇪 Christian RiedFIA Bronze | 4,469 | 43 | 32 | 11 | 74% |
| 🇮🇹 Paolo RubertiFIA Gold | 4,314 | 32 | 22 | 10 | 69% |
| 🇬🇧 Jamie Davies | 5,098 | 30 | 9 | 21 | 30% |
| 🇵🇹 Pedro LamyFIA Platinum | 4,353 | 23 | 9 | 14 | 39% |
| 🏳️ Matthew Griffin | 3,891 | 23 | 16 | 7 | 70% |
| 🇩🇪 Andrea BertoliniFIA Gold | 3,747 | 23 | 6 | 17 | 26% |
| 🇮🇹 Thomas BiagiFIA Gold | 5,509 | 22 | 5 | 17 | 23% |
| 🇮🇹 Gianluca RodaFIA Bronze | 3,666 | 20 | 14 | 6 | 70% |
| 🇮🇹 Fabrizio Gollin | 5,726 | 18 | 9 | 9 | 50% |
| 🇺🇸 Patrick LongFIA Platinum | 5,395 | 18 | 11 | 7 | 61% |
| 🇫🇷 Kevin EstreFIA Platinum, 2× champion | 6,141 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 50% |
| 🇦🇹 Rene RastFIA Platinum, 3× champion | 6,108 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 100% |
| 🇪🇸 Marc GeneHigher-rated | 6,067 | 4 | 1 | 3 | 25% |
| # | Driver | Series | Rating |
|---|---|---|---|
| 3,614 | 🇫🇮 Mikko Pakari | Formula Renault Eurocup | 3,980 |
| 3,615 | 🇺🇸 Taylor Ferns | Indy NXT | 3,980 |
| 3,616 | 🇺🇸 Tony Mrakovich | NASCAR Truck | 3,980 |
| 3,617 | 🇮🇹 Alex Powell | Italian F4 | 3,979 |
| 3,618 | 🇧🇪 Gregory Servais | 24H Series | 3,979 |
| 3,619 | 🇦🇺 Jackson Walls | Supercars Championship | 3,979 |
| 3,620 | 🇺🇸 Jim Cox | SCCA Majors | 3,979 |
| 3,621 | 🇫🇷 Luciano MORANO | Le Mans Cup | 3,979 |
| 3,622 | 🇦🇺 Noah Lisle | GB3 | 3,979 |
| 3,623 | 🇪🇸 Oscar Nogués | World Touring Car Championship | 3,979 |
| 3,624 | 🇵🇹 Rui Águas | GT Winter Series | 3,979 |
| 3,625 | 🇬🇧 Will Martin | Porsche Carrera Cup NA | 3,979 |
| 3,626 | 🇭🇰 Eric Kwong | Michelin 992 Endurance Cup | 3,978 |
| 3,627 | 🇦🇷 Santiago Mangoni | Turismo Carretera | 3,978 |
| 3,628 | 🇺🇸 Bobby Hamilton Jr. | ARCA Menards Series | 3,977 |
| 3,629 | 🇩🇰 Mikkel Overgaard Pedersen | GT World Challenge Europe | 3,977 |
| 3,630 | 🇫🇮 Valle Mäkelä | Star Mazda Championship | 3,977 |
| 3,631 | 🇺🇸 Ben Hess | NASCAR Xfinity | 3,976 |
| 3,632 | 🇺🇸 G3 Argyros | USF Pro 2000 | 3,976 |
| 3,633 | 🇪🇸 Maya Weug | F1 Academy | 3,976 |
| 3,634 | 🇨🇴 Tatiana Calderón | IMSA WeatherTech | 3,976 |
Rui Aguas was an established professional sportscar driver, rated 5,136, who spent his career competing in FIA GT and endurance racing. The FIA categorised him as Silver; a professional-level driver typically early in career or developing towards the top tier of the discipline. His racing spanned from a single Formula 3 Macau outing in 1996 to his retirement after 2016, with the bulk of his record built in the World Endurance Championship across five seasons from 2012 to 2016, where he scored four wins and twenty podiums in twenty-nine starts. He won the WEC LMGTE Am championship twice, in 2013 and 2016, establishing himself as a consistent competitor in that class and finishing with an average of 3.7 across all his classified starts.[1]
Against the recurring rivals in his field, Aguas held a winning head-to-head record. He finished ahead of Christian Ried, a three-time WEC LMGTE Am champion and multiple series winner, in seventeen of their twenty-seven shared races. He outscored Paolo Ruberti, a 2012 WEC LMGTE Am champion, in thirteen of eighteen encounters. Most significantly, his record against Patrick Long, a Platinum-graded professional rated substantially higher at 5,419, was positive; Aguas finished ahead in ten of their fifteen meetings. However, he struggled against Pedro Lamy, a twice-defending WEC LMGTE Am champion rated 4,586, finishing behind him in twelve of fifteen races. Among his career highlights was a run of seven finishes ahead of Julien Canal, a former WEC LMP2 champion, and isolated victories over stronger drivers including Pedro de la Rosa, Darren Manning and Earl Bamber.
Aguas spent the majority of his career with AF Corse, a factory Ferrari team with substantial win record across endurance racing. His final competitive appearance came in 2023, when he returned for four races in the European Le Mans Series with the same team, though he did not score points in that brief outing. His peak came in 2016, his final full season in the WEC, when he took nine podiums from nine rounds and finished the championship first in points.