Alan Rees
Alan Rees ( born January 12, 1938 in Langstone ) is a retired British racing driver and team manager. He is the father of racing driver Paul Rees.
Alan Rees 1962 drove for the Lotus factory team in Formula Junior and had three wins retracted as a serious accident in the 1000 km race at the Nürburgring with a Lotus 23 finished the season ahead for him.
1963, fully recovered, Rees was the Formula 2 team of Roy Winkelmann driver and team manager in one. Between 1963 and 1968, Rees drove again and again the Brabham racing cars of the team and hit often the top drivers of this racing formula of the 1960s such as Jim Clark, Jochen Rindt and Jackie Stewart.
Thrice Rees was also at Grand Prix at the start. In 1966, he benefited politically a Formula 2 Brabham Grand Prix of Germany at the Nürburgring. A "real" formula 1 car he drove in 1967 at Silverstone. With the factory Cooper T81 residue, he was ninth with four rounds.
The end of 1968 he retired from active racing and was limited 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 was team manager of Shadow and Arrows in Formula 1