Alan Rees

Alan Rees

Nation:	United Kingdom
Automobile world championship
First start:	1966 German Grand Prix
Last start:	1967 German Grand Prix
Constructors
1966  Roy Winkelmann Racing 1967 Cooper Car Company and Roy Winkelmann Racing
statistics
World Cup balance:	no World Cup placement
Starts Victories Poles SR 3 - - -
World Cup points :	-
Podiums :	-
Leadership laps :	-

Alan Rees (born January 12, 1938 in Langstone ) is a former British racing car driver and team manager. He is the father of racing driver Paul Rees .

Career

Alan Rees ran in 1962 for the Lotus - works team in Formula Junior and had three wins retracted as a serious accident at the 1000 km race at the Nurburgring on a Lotus 23 ended the season prematurely for him.

In 1963, having recovered completely, Rees became a driver and team manager at Roy Winkelmann's Formula 2 team . Between 1963 and 1968 Rees repeatedly drove the team's Brabham racing cars and often beat the top drivers of this racing formula of the 1960s such as Jim Clark , Jochen Rindt and Jackie Stewart .

Rees also competed three times in Grand Prix races. In 1966 he politicized a Formula 2 Brabham at the German Grand Prix at the Nürburgring . He drove a “real” Formula 1 car in 1967 at Silverstone . With the works Cooper T81 he finished ninth, four laps behind.

At the end of 1968 he retired from active racing and limited himself to his role as team manager. In 1969 he became a founding member of March Engineering . The letter "R" stood for Alan Rees. After his departure from March, he became team manager of Shadow and Arrows in Formula 1.

statistics

Le Mans results

year	team	vehicle	Teammate	placement	Failure reason
1966	Matra Sports SARL	Matra MS620	Jo Schlesser	failure	accident

Individual results in the sports car world championship

season	team	race car	1	2	3	4th	5	6th	7th	8th	9	10	11	12	13	14th	15th
1962	Essex Racing	Lotus 23	DAY	SEB	SEB	MAY	TAR	BER	ONLY	LEM	TAV	CCA	RTT	ONLY	BRI	BRI	PAR
											2
1966	Matra	Matra MS620	DAY	SEB	MON	TAR	SPA	ONLY	LEM	MUG	CCE	HOK	SIM	ONLY	ZEL
							DNF		DNF
1967	JW Automotive	Mirage M1	DAY	SEB	MON	SPA	TAR	ONLY	LEM	HOK	MUG	BRH	CCE	ZEL	OVI	ONLY
					DNF

literature

• Steve Small: Grand Prix Who's Who. 3rd edition. Travel Publishing, Reading 2000, ISBN 1-902007-46-8 .

Web links

Commons : Alan Rees  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Alan Rees at Racing Sports Cars