Entry · № 39

Rene / Reed

Boulder, Colorado & Park City, Utah

The Team

Kristian Rene & Kristi Reed

We met through Tony Warner and the INEOS Grenadier community, and became fast friends the way women sometimes do when they recognize each other immediately. Tony sponsored Kristian's 2025 Rebelle Rally and is sponsoring Kristi's inaugural Rebelle this year, a continuation of Warner INEOS Grenadier's commitment to the event as a Silver sponsor and to the women who compete in it.

Kristian builds the cultural and operational systems that make businesses worth belonging to. Kristi is a physician specializing in spinal cord stimulator implantation, a USAF veteran, and a mother of two.

For Trinitē, we're driving the world's fastest Shelby Daytona Coupe, built by Ted Taormina of Taormina Motorsport.

BOU

Home State

Prior Rally Runs

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Vehicle TBD

Classic

Class

The Drivers

Driver

Kristian Rene

I am a sovereign, a risk-taker, and a dangerously optimistic woman who believes in myself implicitly. I'm a loyal friend, a rad-ass mother of three, and someone who lives big because anything smaller would be a lie.

Navigator

Kristi Reed

I’m a physician, mother, and competitor who thrives in high-pressure environments that demand precision and resilience. I’m driven by challenge, adventure, and the constant pursuit of growth.

Driver 1

Kristian Rene

Residence

Boulder, Colorado

Prior Rallies

Rebelle 2019/2020/2025, Artemis 2023

Role

Driver

Occupation

Systems Architect: I build the cultural and operational systems that keep customers loyal to a business, not just to the employee who served them. Most companies lose customers when they lose people. I design the operating rhythms, standards, and shared language that make the organization itself the thing people stay for. This work is how I build the kind of place neither employees nor customers want to leave. A place where people are required to show up as their best, and where they understand they belong.

Car Memory

My car stories all link back to my dad. I remember being about 6 or 7, in the back seat of his BMW. I must have been small because I had to lift myself out of the seat in order to see over his shoulder and the dashboard, to understand what he was talking about. He explained how much time and distance you need to maneuver through and overtake problems/obstacles and not be part of them "Always look 5 cars ahead," he told me. "The guy in front of you doesn't matter."

Self Described As

Fun Fact

I hold a patent for chocolate fuel. Absurd on paper, until I ran it at the Rebelle Rally in 2019 and proved it was anything but.

Dream Car

I'm driving one. The Shelby Daytona Coupe. My father built a GT40 in his lifetime, and he passed this year, so the car I'm about to compete in is the next chapter of the one he loved. I didn't plan it that way. It just happened to be true. Some dreams find you.

Objectives

To honor the invitation. Trinite's inaugural field is a rare room, women who've already proven their capacity in performance, gathered for an event that treats that achievement with the elegance it deserves. Showing up the way that room deserves is the first objective: prepared, precise, present. Rebelle is type-two fun. It changes you. Trinité is something different; refined, considered, designed for women who want to compete at a high level and be met with equal care off course. I'm honored to be in the inaugural group that gets to set the tone. And I cannot wait to drive the Shelby Daytona Coupe. It's the kind of car you don't drive twice in a lifetime, and getting to compete in one is its own reward. A strong finish is the goal. Being someone the field is glad to have is the standard.

Greatest Adventure

Many of us will say the Rebelle Rally, and I'm no different. Emily Miller told us early that the Rebelle begins long before the start line, and she was right. 2019, my inaugural year, changed the course of my life. It was the adventure where I proved myself to myself.

Driver 2

Kristi Reed

Residence

Park City, Utah

Role

Navigator

Occupation

I’m a physician/surgeon specializing in spinal cord stimulator implantation, a field that requires precision, focus, and the ability to make critical decisions under pressure. My work is deeply meaningful to me because it allows me to improve patients’ quality of life while constantly pushing myself to operate at the highest level.

Car Memory

Some of my most memorable moments with cars come from combining travel and exploration; navigating unfamiliar terrain, embracing the unknown, and relying on instinct and skill to get where I’m going. For me, driving isn’t just transportation, it’s friendship, freedom, independence, and a way to fully experience the journey. That and fully jumping an AMC hornet and getting all 4 wheels off the ground.

Self Described As

I’m a physician, mother, and competitor who thrives in high-pressure environments that demand precision and resilience. I’m driven by challenge, adventure, and the constant pursuit of growth.

Fun Fact

1. I’m a USAF veteran. 2. I have two sons (18 and 19) who keep me grounded and motivated 3. I love animals and have three cats 4. I recently ate a bag of Nerds clusters mixed with fire ants! Spicy!

Dream Car

A fully built, rally-ready off-road vehicle designed for endurance and capability, something that can handle extreme conditions and take me anywhere, no matter how remote. Function, reliability, and performance matter more to me than anything else. OR 1968 Alpha Romeo Tipo 33 Stradale.

Objectives

My goal is to compete at a high level while continuing to grow as both a driver and an individual. I’m motivated by the challenge, but also by the opportunity to represent strength, discipline, and perseverance, as a physician, a mother, and a competitor in a demanding environment.

Greatest Adventure

Riding horses across Costa Rica with my Mom.

The Rig

1965

The Shelby Daytona Coupe has a quieter origin story than its more famous successor. In 1963, Carroll Shelby's open-cockpit Cobras were beating Ferrari almost everywhere, except Le Mans, where the long Mulsanne Straight punished the Cobra's brick-like aerodynamics. A young designer named Pete Brock proposed a coupe body to fix it. Six were built. In 1964, the Daytona Coupe won its class at Le Mans. In 1965, it won the FIA International Championship for GT Manufacturers, the first FIA championship ever won by an American constructor. That win is what got Carroll Shelby promoted to take over the GT40 program, the car that would later beat Ferrari outright at Le Mans in 1966. The Daytona is, in other words, the car that earned the win the GT40 got credit for. Ours was built by Ted Taormina of Taormina Motorsport, a master-level craftsman, multiple-patent holder, and one of the most significant figures in modern Shelby history. Ted holds the world record for the fastest Shelby Cobra, set in 2017 when he broke a 50-year-old record at 201.1 mph, and again in 2020 when he ran 223 mph in his "Italian Job" Cobra, painted in the colors of the Italian flag in honor of his Sicilian heritage. He builds for the love of it. That's the kind of car this is. (taorminamotorsport.com) My father built a GT40 in his lifetime. He passed in January 2026. The GT40 is the famous car, the Le Mans winner, the Hollywood one. The "Daytona" is the one that came before it and made it possible. Getting to compete in a Taormina-built Daytona, this year of all years, isn't a coincidence I take lightly. I think he'd find it funny. I think he'd be proud. Kristi and I came to this through Tony Warner and the INEOS Grenadier community. Trinitē is where the friendship and the car meet, a vehicle with serious history, two women who've earned their seats in it, and an event built for exactly that kind of intersection.

Model 1965
Class Classic

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