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Malja to test for Sauber at the Hungaroring
The Sauber F1 Team is pleased to announce that Gustav Malja will be in the cockpit of the Sauber C36-Ferrari for one test day during the second in-season test at the Hungaroring following the Hungarian Grand Prix weekend (28.-30. July). It will be the first Formula 1 experience for the 21-year-old Swede, who is currently…
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First F2 win for De Vries in Monaco
De Vries dominated race 2 in Monaco from the first corner. His teammate at Rapax Johnny Cecotto and Gustav Malja completed the podium. De Vries had a great start and overtook Cecotto in the first corner. Malja, Ghiotto, Albon, Markelov, Matsushita, King, Rowland and Fuoco completed the top 10. Nato had to retire after Leclerc,…
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Fuoco, Malja and more drivers penalized for Race 1 start
Antonio Fuoco has lost his front row start after being one of five drivers handed a grid penalty by the race stewards following this evening’s qualifying session in Bahrain: joining the Italian on the reprimand list is Gustav Malja, Stefano Coletti, Sergio Canamasas and Sean Gelael. Fuoco was handed a 3 place grid penalty for…
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FIA F2 : The last stage before F1
The GP2 Series championship, rebranded as the FIA Formula 2 championship, starts this week-end in Bahrain. It is time to state the different challenges of this season. Since 2012 and Romain Grosjean, no GP2 Series champion has managed to go straight away to F1 despite the untold promise made by the creation of GP2…
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Malja to join Racing Engineering for the 2017 GP2 Series
Racing Engineering are pleased to announce that Gustav Malja will be joining the Racing Engineering team for the 2017 GP2 Series. The 21-year-old Swede will be driving for the Spanish team in his second full season in GP2. Gustav Malja was born in Malmö and he began racing karts in 2006, winning the Gunnar Nilsson…
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Giovinazzi comes back to win at Monza
After starting on the last row, Antonio Giovinazzi comes back with the help of safety car to win the first GP2 Series race at Monza. Raffaele Marciello and Gustav Malja complete the podium. Pierre Gasly started on pole position. Following Antonio Giovinazzi’s exclusion from qualifying, Artem Markelov started from the front row and Arthur Pic…
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Giovinazzi wins Spa’s Sprint Race
Antonio Giovinazzi passed as leader the chequered flag for the Sprint Race in GP2 this weekend, just in front on Gustav Malja and Luca Ghiotto, the drivers who started from the first row of the grid. Gasly was fourth while Sirotkin ninth but awaiting an investigation. Amazing race the one lived today in GP2. Clean…
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Giovinazzi on Pole after a Perfect Lap
Giovinazzi has scored the fastest time on his last attempt to beat Gasly, who will start from second position. Behind them, Gustav Malja will start from third position. The qualifying session began with a warm atmosphere: with an ambient temperature of 31ºC and 40°C of track temperature, and also with the return to GP2 of…
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Giovinazzi and Malja receive time penalties
Following today’s feature race at Monte Carlo, it was found that PREMA Racing’s Antonio Giovinazzi had left the track at Turn 10 and gained an advantage during the event. Therefore, the Italian was handed a 5 second time penalty which has been added to his elapsed race time. He had crossed the finish line in…
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Jordan King ends on top on Day 2
It has been a fruitful day for Briton Jordan King who set the best laptime in a 1:24.449 in the morning session – one tenth quicker than rookie Antonio Giovinazzi and Nobuharu Matsushita. In the afternoon, Rapax Gustav Malja was quickest. Cold temperatures and sunny conditions graced the paddock this morning on day 2…
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Gasly quickest again as GP2 testing ends
This afternoon’s session marks the end of the 2016 GP2 pre-season test, the first opportunity the drivers have had to shake off the winter cobwebs until the end of the month, where the second test will commence at Jerez. Newcomers PREMA Powerteam have proved that speed and results are not restricted to just their FIA…
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Malja to replace injured Visoiu
The GP2 Series is ready for the final stint of 2015 with teams and drivers lining-up next weekend at Bahrain for round 10. The event will enable teams and drivers to recover the cancelled round at Hockenheim. Then, the GP2 Series circus will head towards Abu Dhabi. Just seven days after Bahrain, the GP2 Series…
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Historic one-two for Strakka at Nürburgring
Epic success for Tio Ellinas on his win in Race 2 in Formula Renault 3.5 Series at Nürburgring, Germany. The fans today lived a lot of action in a race that started on wet conditions, then get dry and then arrived a terrible rain. Gustav Malja and Nyck De Vries completes the podium. The race…
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Trident set to field Malja and Visser
The three-week break that followed the Budapest round of the GP2 and GP3 Series is over, and it’s time to turn the engines on again for Trident. The Italian squad will line-up at the world-renowned Spa-Francorchamps venue, one of the most fascinating of the whole calendar. The challenging 7-kilometer layout features the legendary Eau Rouge…
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Rowland imposes from Vaxiviere battle in Hungary
Formula Renault 3.5 Series leader, Oliver Rowland (Fortec Motorsports) came up big on Sunday at Budapest. After a perfect launch from fifth place on the grid, the Racing Steps Foundation protégé overtook pole winner Matthieu Vaxiviere (Lotus) for the lead and went on to control the passing attempts of his rival throughout the 27 lap…
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Vaxivière continues demolishing the competition
For the moment, Matthieu Vaxivière is the fastest man of the weekend in all sessions, including the first qualifying which he got the pole position only for 25 thousandths from Gustav Malja’s time. It seems that Vaxivière (Lotus) this weekend is invincible and he is the favourite driver to win the race. He tops the…
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Vaxivière and Malja stand on equality
Matthieu Vaxivière and Gustav Malja were the fastest drivers in the first practice session of the Formula Renault 3.5 Series at Motorland Aragón circuit. The Lotus and the Strakka have mastered before Fortec duo and Bestike Visser. The first practice session of the season has been very strange with several red flags. Alfonso Celis was…
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Malja signs with Strakka Racing in FR3.5
19-year-old Swede joins Strakka Racing’s 2015 Formula Renault 3.5 line-up for debut WSR season Press Release Strakka Racing has signed FR2.0 NEC front-runner Gustav Malja for its 2015 Formula Renault 3.5 championship campaign. Malja, 19, currently part of the Swedish national motor racing team and McLaren Performance Academy Driver of 2014, scored two victories in…
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Lotus stays on top with Vaxivière
After setting best time on Monday with Alexander Albon, the Lotus team was quickest for the second consecutive day of the Formula Renault 3.5 Series collective tests thanks to Matthieu Vaxiviere. The Frenchman dominated both sessions of the day at the Motorland Aragón circuit and clocked the fastest lap in 1:40.519; ahead of Gustav Malja…
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Albon leads the rookie test at Motorland
For the first of three days of collective tests at the Motorland Aragón, Alexander Albon (Lotus) was the quickest. The Anglo-Thai member of the Lotus F1 Junior Team was among the drivers invited by Renault Sport Technologies to test drive the Formula Renault 3.5. He dominated the morning session and posted best time of the…
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Second win for Malja at Nürburgring
Gustav Malja claimed his second victory of the season in the Formula Renault 2.0 NEC. At the Nürburgring, the Swedish wins ahead of the pole sitter, Josef Zaruba and Andrea Pizzitola. With a fourth place result, Ben Barnicoat increased his lead in the championship to 16 points from Louis Delétraz, who finished fifth. Gustav…
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Aitken makes his first pole position at the Eurocup
The Fortec Motorsports driver, Jack Aitken get his first pole position at the Eurocup after a wet qualifying. Malja was second and Leclerc third. First was the time of the Group B drivers who did the qualifying in wet. All drivers went to the track for fight for the pole position at the Hungaroring. After…