Gosia Rdest

**Małgorzata "Gosia" Rdest** (born 14 January 1993 in Żyrardów, Masovia, Poland) is a Polish racing driver, who competed in the 2019 BRSCC W Series Championship, using #3 as her race number. An experienced GT racer, **Rdest** would not have the best maiden campaign, only scoring in two of the six races resulting in her missing out on an automatic qualifying spot for 2020.

## Background

Rdest would have a promising start to her career in karting, culminating in her winning the Polish Junior Karting Championship in 2012. That resulted in her being scouted by BMW Motorsport, who placed Rdest in the Formula BMW Talent Cup at the end of the season, where she finished in the top ten in all three races. 2013 would see Rdest move into car racing full time, entering the BRDC Formula 4 Championship.

### GT Dreams: 2013 - 2019

Rdest's first season in single seaters would be a mixed one, with Rdest winning an award for most overtakes, despite finishing eighteenth in the BRDC F4 Championship. 2014 saw her move into the Central European Volkswagen Polo Cup finishing fourteenth, before securing a seat in the Audi Sport TT Cup for 2015. Rdest's maiden TT campaign saw her finish twelfth, having started the season with a run to ninth in class at the Dubai 24 Hours.

Rdest remained in the TT Cup throughout its existence, claiming a best finish of sixth in the Championship in the Cup's final season in 2017. For 2018 Rdest would secure a seat in the GT International Cup, finishing ninth with Phoenix Racing, while also claiming a class win at the Dubai 24 Hours.

## W Series History

Rdest was among the original 55 drivers to enter the Driver Selection process, and would successfully secure a full race seat for the 2019 BRSCC W Series Championship. Rdest debuted at the season opening 2019 Hockenheim Race, and duly spent the race trying to find a way past Esmee Hawkey, before finally breaking her resistance late on with Tasmin Pepper to secure ninth. Hawkey would again be Rdest's bane at the following round at Zolder, with the pair colliding and both retiring with damage.

Rdest had a quiet following pair races in both Misano and Nuremburg, failing to threaten the points in either race. Her fortunes improved in Assen, with Rdest fighting for points throughout in a queue behind Caitlin Wood, before ultimately finishing in sixth. Yet, it would be another anonymous race for Rdest at the season finale in Brands Hatch, failing to threaten the points again.

Rdest ended the season in fourteenth place in the Championship with ten points, and hence missed out on an automatic qualification spot for the 2020 W Series Championship. She would subsequently be dropped from the Series' roster after six new drivers were picked to enter the series after the 2020 Driver Selection Test.

## Post W Series Career

Rdest returned to GT racing after being dropped from the W Series pool of drivers for 2020, once again winning her class at the Dubai 24 Hours at the start of the year.

## Full W Series Record

Shown below are a series of tables outlining Gosia Rdest's career in the W Series in statistical form.

### W Series Entries

The list below includes all of the teams and cars, as well as overall finishing positions for Gosia Rdest during their W Series career:

### Career Results

Below is a table showing Gosia Rdest's full W Series record.

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## References

1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 [Archived] '2019 W Series Drivers', *wseries.com*, (W Series Limited, 2019), https://web.archive.org/web/20200321160627/https://wseries.com/2019-drivers/, (Accessed 04/04/2020) - Original
2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 'W Series concludes three days of testing in Almeria', *wseries.com*, (W Series Limited, 18/09/2019), https://wseries.com/w-hub/on-track-for-2020-w-series-concludes-three-days-of-testing-in-almeria/, (Accessed 04/04/2020)
3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 3.4 3.5 3.6 3.7 3.8 'Gosia Rdest', *driverdb.com*, (Driver Database, 2020), https://www.driverdb.com/drivers/malgorzata-rdest/, (Accessed 04/04/2020)
4. ↑ [Archived] 'The Weekend at Hockenheim', *wseries.com*, (W Series Limited, 2019), https://web.archive.org/web/20191013101433/https://wseries.com/races/hockenheim/, (Accessed 01/04/2020) - Original
5. ↑ [Archived] 'Zolder, Belgium', *wseries.com*, (W Series Limited, 2019), https://web.archive.org/web/20190506170558/https://wseries.com/races/zolder/, (Accessed 02/04/2020) - Original
6. ↑ [Archived] 'Norisring, Germany', *wseries.com*, (W Series Limited, 2019), https://web.archive.org/web/20190506102913/https://wseries.com/races/norisring/, (Accessed 03/04/2020) - Original
7. ↑ [Archived] 'Assen, The Netherlands', *wseries.com*, (W Series Limited, 2019), https://web.archive.org/web/20190506100417/https://wseries.com/races/assen/, (Accessed 03/04/2020) - Original
8. ↑ 8.0 8.1 [Archived] 'Brands Hatch, UK', *wseries.com*, (W Series Limited, 2019), https://web.archive.org/web/20190506194151/https://wseries.com/races/brands-hatch/, (Accessed 03/04/2020) - Original