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Gustav Koch Malja (born 4 November 1995) is a former Swedish racing driver.


Career


Karting

Born in
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,
Sweden Sweden, formally the Kingdom of Sweden, is a Nordic countries, Nordic country located on the Scandinavian Peninsula in Northern Europe. It borders Norway to the west and north, and Finland to the east. At , Sweden is the largest Nordic count ...
, Malja began his
karting Kart racing or karting is a motorsport discipline using open-wheel, four-wheeled vehicles known as go-karts or shifter karts. They are usually raced on scaled-down circuits, although some professional kart races are also held on full-size motor ...
career in Formula Micro in 2006, winning the
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Memorial trophy the following year. By 2009 he had progressed up to the KF3 category, where he won the Swedish Championship and
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Grand Prix. In his final year of karting in 2010, Malja finished 22nd in the European KF3 Championship and fifth in the
Junior Monaco Kart Cup The CIK-FIA Monaco Kart Cup was a kart racing competition organised by the Automobile Club de Monaco, ACM and sanctioned by the CIK-FIA, taking place at the Circuit de Monaco, Monte Carlo. Founded in 1995, the event was contested until 2010 by ...
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ADAC Formel Masters

In 2011, Malja graduated to
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, racing in the
ADAC Formel Masters ADAC Formel Masters was an ADAC sanctioned open wheel racing series based in Germany, held annually from 2008 to 2014. It was replacement of the local Formula BMW championship. The first season was in 2008 and is the main feeder series to the ATS F ...
championship in
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, despite being just 15 years of age. Driving for Neuhauser Racing, he took a single podium position at
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to finish thirteenth in the standings. He continued with the team for a second season in 2012, taking three race wins and a further thirteen podium places to finish runner–up to champion
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Formula Renault 2.0

For 2013, Malja stepped up to
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, racing in the Eurocup Formula Renault 2.0 and Formula Renault 2.0 NEC championships with Josef Kaufmann Racing. In the NEC championship, he contested eight races, taking podium places at the
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and
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to finish fifteenth in the standings. In the Eurocup he finished twentieth in the championship, taking a single points–position at
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. Malja remained with Josef Kaufmann Racing in both championships for a second season in 2014. He finished fifth in the NEC championship, taking race victories at
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and the Nürburgring and two further podium positions. In the Eurocup, he scored points on eight occasions to finish twelfth in the championship.


Formula Renault 3.5 Series

Malja stepped up to the Formula Renault 3.5 Series in 2015 and raced for
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team
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.


Formula Three

In May 2015, Malja took part in the Pau round of the FIA European Formula 3 Championship, racing for
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in the car originally intended for Marvin Kirchhöfer before he left the team prior to the start of the season. He retired from the opening race of the event before finishing 25th in the remaining two races.


GP2/Formula 2

Malja contested in the
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round of the 2015 season with
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and the final two rounds with
Rapax Rapax Team was an Italian motor racing team. The team's history can be traced back to when the GP Racing team was founded in 1997, and also to when Piquet Sports was created in 2000 by triple world champion Nelson Piquet. In 2007, Piquet Sports an ...
. In
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, Malja joined the GP2 series campaign full-time for Rapax, finished on the podium twice and finished thirteenth overall. For the 2017 F2 season, Malja switched to
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. He finished third in the Monaco sprint race.


Formula 1

Malja participated in the second 2017 Formula 1 in-season test at the Hungaroring during 1–2 August, following the Hungarian GP weekend. Malja drove a Sauber C36-Ferrari for the Sauber F1 Team during the first test day. He completed 108 laps. His best lap was 1.21.503, set during aerodynamic and mechanical development runs.


Racing record


Career summary


Complete Eurocup Formula Renault 2.0 results

( key) (Races in bold indicate pole position; races in ''italics'' indicate fastest lap)


Complete Formula Renault 2.0 NEC results

( key) (Races in bold indicate pole position) (Races in ''italics'' indicate fastest lap)


Complete Formula Renault 3.5 Series results

( key) (Races in bold indicate pole position) (Races in ''italics'' indicate fastest lap)


Complete FIA Formula 3 European Championship results

( key) (Races in bold indicate pole position) (Races in ''italics'' indicate fastest lap)


Complete GP2 Series/FIA Formula 2 results

( key) (Races in bold indicate pole position) (Races in ''italics'' indicate fastest lap)


Complete Porsche Supercup results

( key) (Races in bold indicate pole position) (Races in ''italics'' indicate fastest lap) Driver did not finish the race, but was classified as he completed over 90% of the race distance.


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* * {{DEFAULTSORT:Malja, Gustav 1995 births Living people Sportspeople from Malmö Swedish racing drivers ADAC Formel Masters drivers Formula Renault BARC drivers Formula Renault 2.0 NEC drivers Formula Renault Eurocup drivers World Series Formula V8 3.5 drivers FIA Formula 3 European Championship drivers GP2 Series drivers FIA Formula 2 Championship drivers Porsche Supercup drivers Neuhauser Racing drivers Josef Kaufmann Racing drivers Strakka Racing drivers EuroInternational drivers Trident Racing drivers Rapax Team drivers Racing Engineering drivers Porsche Carrera Cup Germany drivers