René Rast

René Rast
René Rast
	200px Rast at the Brands Hatch round of the 2014 Blancpain Sprint Series season.
Nationality	German
Born	26 October 1986 (age 37); Minden (Germany)
Porsche Supercup career
Debut season	2007
Current team	Lechner Racing
Car no.	16
Former teams	Veltins MRS Racing
Starts	53
Wins	20
Poles	19
Fastest laps	15
Best finish	1st in 2010, 2011, 2012

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René Rast (born 26 October 1986 ) is a German professional racing driver. He has competed in such series as Porsche Supercup and Formula BMW ADAC. He won the ADAC Volkswagen Polo Cup in 2005 for Volkswagen Motorsport.

Born in Minden,^[1] Rast won the 2012 24 Hours of Daytona GT division, driving a Magnus Racing Porsche 911 GT3 Cup with co-drivers Andy Lally, Richard Lietz and team owner John Potter.

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

Racing Record

(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.

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

Year	Entrant	Class	Chassis	Engine	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	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

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

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

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

* Season still in progress.

Sporting positions
Preceded by Uwe Alzen	Porsche Carrera Cup Germany champion 2008	Succeeded by Thomas Jäger
Preceded by Jeroen Bleekemolen	Porsche Supercup Champion 2010–2012	Succeeded by Nicki Thiim
Preceded by Nick Tandy	Porsche Carrera Cup Germany champion 2012	Succeeded by Kévin Estre
Preceded by Diego Alessi Daniel Keilwitz	ADAC GT Masters Champion 2014 with: Kelvin van der Linde	Succeeded by Sebastian Asch Luca Ludwig