🇮🇹 David Gostner

David Gostner is a semi-professional driver rated 3,247, placing him among the competitive amateurs and early-career professionals in endurance and sportscar racing. The FIA Bronze categorisation confirms his standing as an amateur or gentleman driver operating at the level of professional-calibre fields. His record spans three seasons from 2022 to 2025 in Ferrari Challenge, a single-marque series in which he has scored two wins and seven podiums from 18 starts, finishing an average of P5.3 across all classified races.[1]

Gostner's head-to-head record against his most frequent rivals shows a driver competitive but not dominant at his level. Against Hanno Laskowski, a driver of near-identical rating, he finished ahead in seven of fourteen shared races. He holds a notably strong record against Amin Arefpour, winning eleven of twelve encounters, though Arefpour's rating of 1,030 suggests a driver considerably less experienced. More tellingly, Gostner has struggled against stronger opposition; against Hendrik Viol, the 2025 Ferrari Challenge Pro-Am champion and a driver rated 4,171, he finished ahead only three times in ten races. Similarly, against Marco Zanasi, rated 3,635, Gostner won six of nine meetings but shows no consistent pattern of dominance. His performances against Bronze-graded professionals including Michael Verhagen and Nicolò Rosi demonstrate occasional ability to match drivers at the top end of his class without establishing superiority.[2]

In 2025, Gostner's final recorded season, he scored two wins and five podiums across ten Ferrari Challenge rounds to finish sixth overall in the standings. The recent headlines reference endurance racing activity through 2026, suggesting his career has extended beyond the Ferrari Challenge single-marque competition into longer-format sportscar racing.