12 Facts About Fernando Rees

Fernando Rees was born on January 4,1985 and is a retired Brazilian racecar driver.

Fernando Rees started his career racing with go-karts back in 1993 at age 8.

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 Fernando Rees was forced to look elsewhere to compete.

Fernando Rees had two broken vertebrae, three compressed vertebrae, a broken ankle, and other excoriations in both legs.

Fernando Rees decided to remain in the Le Mans Series for the following season.

Fernando Rees made his debut in the LMP2 class of the Le Mans Series in the second round of the 2008 championship, in Monza.

In 2009, Fernando Rees signed with the Barazi-Epsilon team in the LMP2 class of the Le Mans Series.

Fernando Rees was left without a team to race for the remaining season of 2009.

In 2010 Fernando Rees returned to Larbre Competition in the Le Mans Series, the same team with which he won the Interlagos round of the championship in 2007 - at that time, driving an Aston Martin DBR9.

Fernando Rees went on to win his third race in the 2010 championship at Silverstone, in the closure of the season.

Alongside his teammates Pedro Lamy, Julien Canal, and Patrick Bornhauser, Fernando Rees helped Larbre Competition to win the world championship in the new FIA endurance series.

In 2013, Fernando Rees signed once more with Larbre Competition for the second season of the FIA World Endurance Championship.