Fernando Rees
| Fernando Rees | |
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Rees at the 2013 6 Hours of Silverstone
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| Nationality |
 Brazilian
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| Born |
January 4, 1985 São Paulo, São Paulo State (Brazil) |
| FIA World Endurance Championship career | |
| Debut season | 2012 |
| Current team | Aston Martin Racing |
| Car no. | 97 |
| Starts | 28 |
| Wins | 1 |
| Podiums | 9 |
| Poles | 4 |
| Fastest laps | 6 |
Fernando Rees (born January 4, 1985) is a Brazilian racecar driver. He started his career racing with go-karts back in 1993 at age 8. Fernando made his international single-seaters' debut in 2001, his endurance racing debut in 2007, and has recently competed in the most celebrated international racing championships. Rees currently has over 20 years of racing experience and is known as a quick and competitive driver in today's advanced race cars.
Rees was born in São Paulo. In late 2003, he was given a private test by Mercedes-Benz on the Portuguese circuit of Estoril. On December 11, 2003, Mercedes-Benz had organized a Formula 3 test among its official client teams of the Formula 3 Euroseries. Only six drivers were selected to take part in the test: Fernando Rees, Robert Kubica, Jamie Green, Bruno Spengler, Alexandre Premat and Adrian Sutil. In the single test day, Rees topped the time sheets driving the ASM Mercedes-Benz car. Later in the same year, Ron Dennis picked the ASM Mercedes-Benz team for Lewis Hamilton to drive in the upcoming Formula 3 Euroseries championship, and Rees was forced to look elsewhere to compete.
After four years competing in the major single-seater categories in Europe (2001–2005), and having proved himself driving for the low budget team Interwetten.com in World Series by Renault during its 2005 season, Rees was awarded a test in the renowned Italian dream Draco Racing in the winter of that same year. With more than 30 drivers on track, including 2005 season champion Robert Kubica, Rees lead the field in the demanding track of Valencia, with more than half a second gap to Pastor Maldonado, who emerged second. The test opened new doors for the Brazilian driver, and 2006 was a promising year.
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