Alan Brinley Rees (born 12 January 1938 in

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) is a British former

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from

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. He participated in three World Championship Grands Prix in the 1960s, although two of those appearances were driving

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cars. He scored no championship points. His best result was seventh place (second in the Formula Two class) in the 1967 German Grand Prix. Rees drove for the works Lotus

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team in 1962, and won three races before a crash at the Nürburgring 1000 km

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race ended his season. From 1963 to 1968, he drove for the Roy Winklemann Racing team in Formula Two and frequently achieved victories over experienced drivers such as

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and

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Formula One team management

In 1969 Rees co-founded

March Engineering March Engineering was a Formula One constructor and manufacturer of customer racing cars from the United Kingdom. Although only moderately successful in Grand Prix competition, March racing cars enjoyed much better success in other categories ...

; his initials being the "AR" in "March", alongside Max Mosley, Graham Coaker and Robin Herd. At the end of 1971 he moved to a

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where he became team principal. In 1977 he left Shadow to co-found Arrows. In 1996 he and the other remaining founders sold Arrows to

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. Following the death of Max Mosley in 2021, he is the sole March co-founder still alive.

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