The passion for racing is stronger than everything
Andrej SlakFounder and team principalWe build drivers with character, not just lap times.
We combine elite-level engineering with human development.
In 2009 he sold the rally cars, sold the trucks and left the sport. Five months later a friend mentioned a Formula Renault 2.0 for sale. He thought about it for ten minutes and bought it. Everything on this website exists because of those ten minutes.
We teach first. Racing comes later.
«I would say the opposite; our main goal is a driver academy-racing school, so coaching, testing, and preparing the drivers are most important to us. Competitions come at the end of this process. For various reasons, some drivers don't even reach the competition phase.»
The meeting
Before anything is booked, we sit down with the driver and the parents or the manager. What are we aiming at, and on what budget. This conversation decides everything that follows.
The programme
Written for one driver. Number of test days, which circuits, which championship at the end — or no championship at the end, if that is the honest answer.
Coaching and testing
Misano, Cremona, Varano, Adria. Engineer, telemetry, debrief after every run. This is where most of the time and most of the budget goes.
Racing
When the driver is ready. Not when the calendar says so.
Your first laps in a Formula 4 car
A karting driver steps into an F4 car and meets three things he has never dealt with: a clutch, a sequential gearbox and aerodynamic grip that only exists above a certain speed. Slak puts it plainly: some of the drivers arriving at the team don't even know what a clutch is. That is not a joke about them — it is the actual starting point of the work.
So a test day with us is not a rental. You get a race engineer on your radio, mechanics who prepare and change the car between runs, and telemetry that gets opened on a laptop after every session — where you lifted, where you braked, where the lap went. Then you go back out and fix one thing. Then another.
Most drivers need several days like this before the car stops being frightening and starts being a tool.
You. This car. Mugello.
No licence required. No racing history required. You will not be following an instructor's car around — you will be driving a Tatuus F4-T421 that races in the Italian F4 Championship, prepared by the same mechanics, on the same Pirelli slicks.
Which one is yours?
The car is the same in all three. What changes is how long you stay in it and what happens afterwards.
| Track Days | Testing & Coaching | Driver Academy | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Who it's for | Amateur and gentleman drivers who want to drive a real single-seater once, properly. | Karting drivers moving up, drivers from other series, gentleman drivers with an ambition. | 15–18-year-old karting drivers and their families, planning a first season in single-seaters. |
| How long | One day. | From one day to a full winter. | A year or more. Kacper Sztuka spent his first year testing, with no races at all. |
| What you get | Seat fitting, briefing, several sessions on track, an engineer on the radio, data after every run. | Everything above, plus a coaching plan across several days and circuits, and reference laps to work against. | A personalised programme built after a meeting with the family, coaching, testing, and a race seat when the driver is ready. |
| Where it ends | You drive back home. Some people book a second day. | You either want a season, or you find out honestly that you don't. | F4 CEZ, Italian F4, Formula Winter Series, E4 — or a bigger team, which is the real goal. |
| Next step | Track Days → | Testing & Coaching → | Driver Academy → |
Not sure which line is yours? Write to us and describe where you're coming from. That's how every programme here starts anyway.
One car. Not a demonstration car.
The Tatuus F4-T421 is the current FIA Formula 4 car — the same chassis that fills the grids of the Italian F4 Championship, the F4 CEZ Championship and the Formula Winter Series. Our track day cars are our race cars. There is no softer version kept aside for visitors.
Carbon fibre monocoque
Halo, FIA Formula 4 homologation
Abarth 1.4, four cylinders, turbocharged
Around 180 hp
Six-speed sequential, paddle shift
Pirelli, slicks and wets
Italian circuits, mostly
The headquarters is in Koper, Slovenia. The workshop is in Italy, close to Venice — because that is where the tests and the races are.
«Our headquarters is close to Venice, Italy, so we have some Italian members and others from Slovenia or other countries.»
Misano
Mugello
Cremona
Hungaroring
Most
Monza
Imola
We are a small structure, but very professional.
Between eleven and fourteen people. Some have worked in GT racing and in Formula 1 – our chief mechanic among them. The others are young engineers and mechanics who are here to grow, the same way the drivers are. In a team this size nobody is a second car and nobody waits their turn.
He came with no name. He left as a champion.
«Kacper was a great pride for us. He showed what we were capable of – to detect a diamond in the rough, to support him and push him to reveal himself.»
Eleventh place was our best day with him. Two years later he was champion, and the year after that he was in Red Bull colours. We are not claiming that title — it belongs to him and to US Racing. What belongs to us is the year before the year: the tests nobody watched, the day he did 99 laps, the season where 11th was a good result.
«Kacper Sztuka took the right path. He spent the first year doing testing and preparation, then one season with our team. When he was ready, he moved to a top team and realized his ambitions to become a champion. Many parents are in a rush, wanting their children to be champions immediately, and usually, it doesn't end well.»
2020 – 2021
First year in the team. Testing and preparation only, no races. 99 laps in one day at Misano, February 2021.
2021
Debut season in Italian F4 with AS Motorsport. Best race result: 11th at Misano. Two rookie podiums. 8th in the rookie standings.
2022
Moves to US Racing, one of the giants of the series. Podium and a win in his first weekend there. 6th overall by the end of the season.
2023
Italian F4 Champion. The tenth champion in the history of the series.
2024
Red Bull Junior Team.
On the grid right now
Two drivers, four championships.
Michalina Sabaj (Poland)
One of the more experienced drivers in the F4 CEZ field. Entered as AS Motorsport.
Ginevra Panzeri (Italy)
Born in Bergamo, 2008. Started karting at five. Took her first championship points in the opening race at Estoril this year. Entered as PA Racing by AS Motorsport.
F4 CEZ has 44 cars from 21 teams this season — no other Formula 4 series in Europe has ever had that many different entrants. Italian F4 has 47 drivers. These are not quiet grids, and we are not there to make up the numbers.
