Who we are
AS Motorsport is a Formula 4 racing team, specialised in the development of young drivers, with special testing and track day programmes available for amateur and gentleman drivers.
The address on the paperwork says Koper, Slovenia. The address on the timesheets says Italy, near Venice. Both are correct. Slovenia is where the team was founded and where it's registered; Italy is where the cars are built, tested and campaigned, because almost everything on the calendar — Monza, Imola, Mugello, Cremona, Varano, Adria — is Italian.
Our headquarters is close to Venice, Italy, so we have some Italian members and others from Slovenia or other countries.
The ten-minute decision.
AS Motorsport is a Formula 4 racing team, specialised in the development of young drivers, with special testing and track day programmes available for amateur and gentleman drivers.
The address on the paperwork says Koper, Slovenia. The address on the timesheets says Italy, near Venice. Both are correct. Slovenia is where the team was founded and where it's registered; Italy is where the cars are built, tested and campaigned, because almost everything on the calendar — Monza, Imola, Mugello, Cremona, Varano, Adria — is Italian.
Our headquarters is close to Venice, Italy, so we have some Italian members and others from Slovenia or other countries.
Two countries, one workshop, one team.
Motorsport is not only about podiums, trophies. It's a journey. To see our drivers progress, improve and sometimes even fight the best, it's an enormous satisfaction.
Andrej SlakFounder and team principalIt's the closest thing the team has to a mission statement. Results are the outcome; the point is the process that gets a driver from their first lap to their best one.
Rally to Formula 4 – with no gap in between.
Thirty-three years, told as one continuous line rather than three separate stories.
1993 – 2009 · Rally
Founded in Koper. Seventeen years spent building rally cars and racing them in local and Eastern European championships. Slovenian rally names Rok Turk and Tom Nemarnik both drove for the team during this period. The 2009 financial crisis brought it to a close — cars and trucks sold, the team out of racing.
2010 – 2017 · Formula Renault
A Formula Renault 2.0, bought on a whim, brought the team back – and onto circuits for the first time. A few years learning what racing on a track, rather than a road, actually demands. In 2015, FIA Formula 4 became the new single-make standard, and the team bought its first F4 cars. A technical base opened in Italy, close to where private testing was already happening. Frederik Vesti – later a Formula 2 vice-champion and Mercedes-AMG Petronas F1 reserve driver – was part of the team during these years.
2018 – now · Formula 4
Debut in Italian F4, the most competitive national F4 championship in the world. 2020 brought the team's best weekend to date – P11 and P15 at Monza. 2021 was Kacper Sztuka's rookie season. 2023, a first entry into the Formula Winter Series. 2024, a first season in F4 CEZ. Early 2025, a full rebrand. 2026: F4 CEZ, Italian F4, the Formula Winter Series and E4, all at once.
Eleven to fourteen people. Several came from Formula 1.
Who's actually turning the wrenches and reading the data.
Between eleven and fourteen people work for the team full-time — mechanics, engineers, and everyone in between.
Most of the crew have worked in GT racing or single-seaters before, several of them in Formula 1.
Worked in Formula 1 before joining AS Motorsport.
Usually, we have a mix of experienced individuals and talented young engineers and mechanics.
In a team this size, nobody is waiting for a turn. Every mechanic and engineer works close to the cars, every week.
No podium since 2018. That's not the headline we're avoiding.
Since debuting in Italian F4 in 2018, AS Motorsport has never scored a point in the championship, and has never finished inside the top ten of a grid that regularly runs thirty to forty cars. Feeder Series, writing about the team in 2025, called it one of Italian F4's perennial underdogs — a description the team doesn't dispute.
It's a question people often ask us, I would say. But we trust so much the potential of our drivers, and that fuels our motivation for every race.
We are proud to offer an environment where young drivers can learn, progress, blossom and get noticed. For us, it's much more rewarding than short-term results.
Grey lines. A sharper ambition.
Early 2025 brought the team's first rebrand in over three decades: a new logo and a new livery. The old identity — a strong yellow and a bold, block-letter typeface — gave way to greyscale tones and sweeping curves.
The same period brought Julien Dupe, a French entrepreneur with stakes in around forty companies worldwide, into the team's orbit, taking on its marketing and public visibility. His son, Andrea Dupe, raced for the team in 2025.
With this new identity, our target is clear: to take on the next step, on the racing and organisational levels. We want to fight for the top 15 quickly and aim for the top 10 afterwards. It's ambitious, but we know it is possible with hard work.
Detecting talent. Forming it. Then racing for the front.
Our long-term vision is to become a team truly recognised for detecting and forming young talents – and maybe why not, a team able to fight at the front of the field.