Stefan Rzadzinski

Last updated May 15, 2024

Stefan Rzadzinski (born January 5, 1993) is a Canadian racing driver from Edmonton, Alberta.

Rzadzinski won several regional karting titles and placed highly in many major American national karting championships from 2002 to 2008. In 2009 and 2010 he raced in the Ontario Formula Ford 1600 championship and placed second both years.^[1] He signed on with Davey Hamilton Racing to take a significant step up and make his Firestone Indy Lights debut in the series' 2011 double-header in Rzadzinski's hometown of Edmonton.^[2] Rzadzinski finished 10th and 13th in the two races, good enough for 37 points and 24th in the championship. He also participated in the 2011 Skip Barber Summer Series where he finished fifth with two wins in 16 races.^[1] In 2012 he signed with JDC MotorSports to race in the Star Mazda Championship.^[3] He competed in ten of the 17 races and finished 16th in points with a best finish of sixth in his home race in Edmonton.

In 2014 he ran 4 races in NASCAR Canadian Tire Series with a best finish of 9th.

Rzadzinski's nickname in the paddock is "Razzle Dazzle".^[2]

Motorsports career results

American open-wheel racing results

(key)

Indy Lights

Year	Team	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	Rank	Points
2011	Davey Hamilton Racing	STP	ALA	LBH	INDY	MIL	IOW	TOR	EDM 10	EDM 13	TRO	NHM	BAL	KTY	LVS	24th	37

Star Mazda Championship

Year	Team	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	Rank	Points
2012	JDC MotorSports	STP 10	STP 8	BAR 10	BAR 8	IND	IOW	TOR 11	TOR 12	EDM 17	EDM 6	TRO	TRO	BAL 9	BAL 11	LAG	LAG	ATL	16th	108

U.S. F2000 National Championship

Year	Team	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	Rank	Points
2013	JDC MotorSports	SEB 5	SEB 9	STP 3	STP 11	LOR 10	TOR 9	TOR 27	MDO 14	MDO 13	MDO 11	LAG	LAG	HOU	HOU	14th	110

NASCAR

(key) (Bold – Pole position awarded by qualifying time. Italics – Pole position earned by points standings or practice time. * – Most laps led.)

Canadian Tire Series

NASCAR Canadian Tire Series results
Year	Team	No.	Make	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	NCTSC	Pts
2014	Tagliani AutoSport	18	Dodge	MSP 13	ACD	ICAR					RIS 14	MSP	BAR	KWA	23rd	129
2014	22 Racing	24	Dodge				EIR 9	SAS 11	ASE	CTR					23rd	129

IMSA GT3 Cup Challenge Canada


Year	Team	1	2	Rank	Points
2018	Speedstar Motorsport	SEB	SEB	8th	48
2018	Speedstar Motorsport	5	9	8th	48

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References

1 2 Stefan Rzadzinski - Career Detail, Driver Database, Retrieved 2011-12-14
1 2 Ireland, Joanne. Edmonton Indy will have some local Razzle Dazzle Archived 2016-02-03 at the Wayback Machine , Edmonton Journal, July 14, 2011, Retrieved 2011-07-15
↑ Lees, Nick. Local teen hopes to one day become a big wheel in Indy racing, Edmonton Journal, March 16, 2012, Retrieved 2012-03-22

External links

Stefan Rzadzinski driver statistics at Racing-Reference

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[driverdb-1] 1 2 Stefan Rzadzinski - Career Detail, Driver Database, Retrieved 2011-12-14

[Razzle-2] 1 2 Ireland, Joanne. Edmonton Indy will have some local Razzle Dazzle Archived 2016-02-03 at the Wayback Machine , Edmonton Journal, July 14, 2011, Retrieved 2011-07-15

[3] Lees, Nick. Local teen hopes to one day become a big wheel in Indy racing, Edmonton Journal, March 16, 2012, Retrieved 2012-03-22

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