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 3,965 ranks Águas 3747th of 40,349 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 | +7 |
| 2025-03-08 | Circuit de Barcelona-Catalunya CUP 1 | P2 | +18 |
| 2025-02-16 | Valencia CUP 1 | P4 | −6 |
| 2025-02-15 | Valencia CUP 1 | P5 | −52 |
| 2025-01-26 | Autodromo Internacional Algarve CUP 1 | P2 | +16 |
| 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 | −172 | 3,965 |
| 2023 | ▸European Le Mans Series | AF Corse | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — | −73 | 4,136 |
| 2022 | ▸Le Mans Cup | AF Corse | 4 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | P22 | −461 | 4,209 |
| 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 | 3,959 | 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 | 5,394 | 18 | 11 | 7 | 61% |
| 🇫🇷 Kevin EstreFIA Platinum, 2× champion | 6,146 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 50% |
| 🇪🇸 Marc GeneHigher-rated | 6,067 | 4 | 1 | 3 | 25% |
| 🇳🇿 Brendon HartleyFIA Platinum, 3× champion | 6,047 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 100% |
| # | Driver | Series | Rating |
|---|---|---|---|
| 3,737 | 🇩🇪 Tim Sandtler | Nürburgring Langstrecken-Serie | 3,967 |
| 3,738 | 🏳️ Bona Ventura | Nürburgring Langstrecken-Serie | 3,966 |
| 3,739 | 🇺🇸 David Green | NASCAR Xfinity | 3,966 |
| 3,740 | 🇳🇱 Dick Waaijenberg | FIA GT Championship | 3,966 |
| 3,741 | 🇩🇪 Martin Hippe | European Le Mans Series | 3,966 |
| 3,742 | 🇩🇪 Marvin Dienst | GT World Challenge Europe | 3,966 |
| 3,743 | 🇫🇷 Pierre-Alexandre Provost | European Le Mans Series | 3,966 |
| 3,744 | 🇳🇱 Wolf Nathan | 24H Series | 3,966 |
| 3,745 | 🇪🇸 Xavier Lloveras | Prototype Cup Germany | 3,966 |
| 3,746 | 🇩🇪 Alex Lambertz | Nürburgring Langstrecken-Serie | 3,965 |
| 3,747 | 🇵🇹 Rui Águas | GT Winter Series | 3,965 |
| 3,748 | 🇬🇧 Jonny Cocker | British GT Championship | 3,964 |
| 3,749 | 🇦🇷 José Manuel Sapag | TCR World Tour | 3,964 |
| 3,750 | 🇳🇱 Lucas Groeneveld | 24H Series | 3,963 |
| 3,751 | 🇧🇪 Stefano Zonca | FIA GT Championship | 3,963 |
| 3,752 | 🇰🇷 Heamin Choi | Indy NXT | 3,962 |
| 3,753 | 🇰🇼 Jaber Alsabah | British F4 | 3,962 |
| 3,754 | 🇺🇸 Mike Stefanik | NASCAR Xfinity | 3,962 |
| 3,755 | 🇲🇰 Viktor Davidovski | TCR World Tour | 3,962 |
| 3,756 | 🇬🇧 William Tregurtha | Lamborghini Super Trofeo Asia | 3,962 |
| 3,757 | 🇰🇷 Dong Wook Lee | Formula 3 Euro Series | 3,961 |
Rui Águas is an established professional racing in international endurance and sportscar series, graded FIA Silver. He drives for AF Corse, the Ferrari factory team, in a shared-car format across multiclass grids that include amateurs alongside professionals. His primary domain has been the World Endurance Championship, where he contested five seasons from 2012 to 2016 in GT machinery, compiling four wins and twenty podiums across twenty-nine starts.[1]
Águas took the 2013 WEC title with 8 Star Motorsports and again in 2016 with AF Corse, both championships won in the LMGTE class. His second title came after a full season of racing at the front of the grid; he finished first in championship points across nine rounds contested that year. Beyond the WEC, he has raced the European Le Mans Series and Le Mans Cup, the latter two both professional endurance championships, and contested the FIA GT Championship during the mid-2000s. His most recent activity is the GT Winter Series, where he has taken two wins and seven podiums from ten starts in 2025, continuing to race Ferrari GT3 machinery for AF Corse.[2]
Águas regularly races against established professionals and multiple series champions. He has finished ahead of Christian Ried, a three-time WEC LMGTE Am champion and European Le Mans Series champion, in most of their meetings, and has done so consistently against Paolo Ruberti, a FIA Gold graded professional and dual champion in WEC and Le Mans Cup. In endurance racing, shared-car grids can obscure individual pace, but his record shows him placing among the strongest drivers in fields that include Platinum-graded competitors such as Kevin Estre and Brendon Hartley, both multiple WEC champions, whom he has beaten in the only individual meetings recorded.