Steven Goldstein is a Colombian racing driver.

Racing career

In 2004 he won the Sportsman Division of the Formula Dodge Eastern Race Series in the United States. In 2005 he won a Panoz GT Summer Series race. In

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he made his debut in the Italian Superstars Championship with an

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entered by

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Italia, finishing eleventh overall after taking part in the last four races; in the following two seasons he raced with the same team, finishing eighth in

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and twelfth in

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, when he missed the final two races. In 2009 he took part in the Italian CSAI GT Cup on board a

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entered by the Kessel Racing team. In the same year he won the 6 Hours of Bogotá on board a Ferrari 430 and a

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. Driving two separate cars he won the race in two different categories and finished first and second in the overall ranking. In 2010 he raced in the European championship

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and finished second overall alongside

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. In 2011 he competed in the International GT Sprint Series on board a Ferrari 430 with Spanish teammate Antonio de la Reina; they won the GTS Cup Trophy. In 2012 he raced both a

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and a

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; Goldstein claimed again the trophy, this time by a margin of 4 points. In 2013, for the third year in a row, he was first in the standings again paired with de la Reina. In 2014 he competed in the

Italian GT Championship The Italian GT Championship (''Campionato Italiano Gran Turismo'') is an Italian sports car series founded in 2003 and organized by the Automobile Club d'Italia (ACI) and the Commissione Sportiva Automobilistica Italiana (CSAI). It replaced a ...

first division on board a

, finishing second in the Pirelli Tyres Cup standings. In 2015, there was news that Goldstein was joining the

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as test driver for the

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team.

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* * {{DEFAULTSORT:Goldstein, Steven Colombian racing drivers Bocconi University alumni Living people Superstars Series drivers 1981 births Audi Sport drivers Racing drivers from Bogotá