René Rast

René Rast
Rast at the Brands Hatch round of the 2014 Blancpain Sprint Series season.
Nationality	German
Born	(1986-10-26) 26 October 1986 Minden, West Germany
Porsche Supercup career
Debut season	2007
Current team	Lechner Racing
Car number	16
Former teams	Veltins MRS Racing
Starts	53
Wins	20
Poles	19
Fastest laps	15
Best finish	1st in 2010, 2011, 2012

René Rast (born 26 October 1986 in Minden) is a German professional racing driver. He claimed overall wins at the 2012 and 2014 24 Hours of Spa and a class win at the 2012 24 Hours of Daytona.

Career

Rast driving for Veltins MRS Racing in the 2009 Porsche Supercup at the Hungaroring.

After competing in karting and Formula BMW, Rast won the 2005 ADAC Volkswagen Polo Cup and was runner-up at the 2006 Seat León Supercopa Germany.

In 2007 he switched to sports car racing, where he won Porsche Carrera Cup Germany in 2008 and 2012, and Porsche Supercup and claimed three championships from 2010 to 2012. Rast also competed at the ADAC GT Masters from 2010 to 2012, winning the title in his last year.

He ran the 2011 12 Hours of Sebring with a Paul Miller Racing Porsche 911 GT3 RSR. Rast won the 2012 24 Hours of Daytona GT class, driving a Magnus Racing Porsche 911 GT3 Cup with co-drivers Andy Lally, Richard Lietz and team owner John Potter.

Rast won the 2012 and 2014 24 Hours of Spa with a factory-supported Audi R8 LMS with teams Phoenix and WRT respectively.

In the 2013 FIA GT Series, he claimed a win and five podiums with an WRT Audi R8. In the 2014 Blancpain Sprint Series, he claimed a win and three podiums. In 2016 he got three podiums with.

Rast debuted at the 2014 24 Hours of Le Mans with a Sébastien Loeb Racing Oreca-Nissan, finishing fourth in the LMP2 class. In 2015 he competed at two rounds of the FIA World Endurance Championship with a factory Audi R18 e-tron quattro, finishing fourth overall at the 6 Hours of Spa and seventh at the 24 Hours of Le Mans. In 2016 he raced full-time for G-Drive with an Oreca-Nissan LMP2, claiming a win at Bahrain and a second place at the 24 Hours of Le Mans and two third place finishes at Silverstone and Austin.

Rast debuted at the Formula E at the 2016 Berlin ePrix replacing António Félix da Costa (who has a DTM commitment) at Team Aguri. Later he competed in two rounds of the Deutsche Tourenwagen Masters with an Audi RS5, finishing sixth at Hockenheim II race 1.

Racing record

Complete Porsche Supercup results

(key) (Races in bold indicate pole position) (Races in italics indicate fastest lap)

Year	Team	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	DC	Points
2007	Veltins MRS Racing	BHR	BHR	ESP	MON	FRA	GBR	GER 13	HUN	TUR	BEL	ITA			NC‡	0‡
2008	Veltins MRS Racing	BHR Ret	BHR 3	ESP 5	TUR Ret	MON 7	FRA Ret	GBR	GER 5	HUN 8	ESP 6	BEL 7	ITA 8		6th	95
2009	Veltins MRS Racing	BHR Ret	BHR 2	ESP DSQ	MON 2	TUR 2	GBR 1	GER 1	HUN 1	ESP 1	BEL 17†	ITA 1	UAE 1	UAE 2	2nd	207
2010	Al Faisal Lechner Racing	BHR 1	BHR 1	ESP Ret	MON 1	ESP 1	GBR 2	GER Ret	HUN 3	BEL 3	ITA 4				1st	152
2011	Veltins Lechner Racing	TUR 5	ESP 7	MON 1	GER 1	GBR 1	GER 1	HUN Ret	BEL 2	ITA 2	UAE 2	UAE 1			1st	181
2012	Lechner Racing	BHR 1	BHR 3	MON Ret	ESP 1	GBR 1	GER 1	HUN DNS	HUN DNS	BEL 2	ITA 1				1st	142

^† Did not finish the race, but was classified as he completed over 90% of the race distance. ^‡ As Rast was a guest driver, he was ineligible to score points.

Complete FIA GT Series results

Year	Team	Car	Class	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	Pos.	Points
2013	Belgian Audi Club Team WRT	Audi R8 LMS ultra	Pro	NOG QR 2	NOG CR 6	ZOL QR 3	ZOL CR 5	ZAN QR 3	ZAN CR Ret	SVK QR 5	SVK CR 2	NAV QR	NAV CR	BAK QR 1	BAK CR 15	6th	80

Complete FIA World Endurance Championship results

Year	Entrant	Class	Chassis	Engine	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	Rank	Points
2014	Sébastien Loeb Racing	LMP2	Oreca 03R	Nissan VK45DE 4.5 L V8	SIL	SPA	LMS 4	COA	FUJ	SHA	BHR	SÃO		NC†	0†
2015	Audi Sport Team Joest	LMP1	Audi R18 e-tron quattro	Audi TDI 4.0 L Turbo V6 (Hybrid Diesel)	SIL	SPA 4	LMS 7	NÜR	COA	FUJ	SHA	BHR		12th	24
2016	G-Drive Racing	LMP2	Oreca 05	Nissan VK45DE 4.5 L V8	SIL 3	SPA 5	LMS 2	NÜR Ret	MEX 7	COA 3	FUJ	SHA	BHR 1	5th	111

^† As Rast was a guest driver, he was ineligible for points.

24 Hours of Le Mans results

Year	Team	Co-Drivers	Car	Class	Laps	Pos.	Class Pos.
2014	Sébastien Loeb Racing	Jan Charouz Vincent Capillaire	Oreca 03R-Nissan	LMP2	354	8th	4th
2015	Audi Sport Team Joest	Marco Bonanomi Filipe Albuquerque	Audi R18 e-tron quattro	LMP1	387	7th	7th
2016	G-Drive Racing	Roman Rusinov Will Stevens	Oreca 05-Nissan	LMP2	357	6th	2nd

Complete Blancpain GT Series Sprint Cup results

Year	Team	Car	Class	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	Pos.	Points
2014	Belgian Audi Club Team WRT	Audi R8 LMS ultra	Pro	NOG QR DSQ	NOG CR 7	BRH QR 14	BRH CR 9	ZAN QR 4	ZAN CR 1	SVK QR 9	SVK CR 3	ALG QR 3	ALG CR 5	ZOL QR 4	ZOL CR Ret	BAK QR 4	BAK CR Ret	5th	71
2016	Belgian Audi Club Team WRT	Audi R8 LMS	Pro	MIS QR 14	MIS CR Ret	BRH QR	BRH CR	NÜR QR 3	NÜR CR 2	HUN QR 10	HUN CR 3	CAT QR 5	CAT CR 18					9th	39

Complete Formula E results

(key) (Races in bold indicate pole position; races in italics indicate fastest lap)

Year	Team	Car	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	Pos	Points
2015–16	Team Aguri	Spark-Renault SRT 01E	BEI	PUT	PDE	BNA	MEX	LBH	PAR	BER NC	LON	LON	23rd	0

Complete DTM results

(key) (Races in bold indicate pole position) (Races in italics indicate fastest lap)

Year	Team	Car	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18	Pos	Points
2016	Audi Sport Team Rosberg	Audi RS5 DTM	HOC 1	HOC 2	SPL 1	SPL 2	LAU 1	LAU 2	NOR 1	NOR 2	ZAN 1	ZAN 2 19	MSC 1	MSC 2	NÜR 1	NÜR 2	HUN 1	HUN 2			23rd	8
	Audi Sport Team Phoenix																		HOC 1 6	HOC 2 17

External links

• Official website
• René Rast career summary at DriverDB.com