The history of our team
Established by Antonin Charouz in 1985, Charouz Racing System has a distinguished history of competing at the highest level in motorsport, particularly in single-seater racing categories.
After recording success in the FIA International F3000 Championship, AutoGP and the A1GP World Cup of Motorsport, we used our expertise and knowledge to become a title-winning team in Formula V8 3.5.
In 2018, we successfully graduated to the FIA Formula 2 Championship and the Formula 4 category. Our impact in F2 was immediate. We won two races and finished on the podium a further five times with our Ferrari Driver Academy-backed cars.
The progression of our car was dazzling until the 2021 season when we secured P.5 in the team championship in F3 scoring 127 points.
F2 brought us 2 well fought podiums in a competitive grid.
Away from single-seater competition, our team has also found success in other categories. Representing Aston Martin, we won the Le Mans Series teams’ and drivers’ titles in 2009 and achieved a top-five LMP1 finish at the 24 Hours of Le Mans in the same year.
We also secured a double success in the FIA GT3 European Series in 2012 as we represented the Mercedes-Benz with its SLS AMG model.
Teams’ Championships/
2017 Formula V8 3.5
2012 FIA GT3 European Championship
2006 F3000 International Masters
Drivers’ Championships/
2017 Formula V8 3.5
2012 FIA GT3 European Championship
2009 Le Mans Series LMP1
2006 F3000 International Masters
About Antonín Charouz
Antonín Charouz is a motorsport pioneer and the driving force behind the domestic, European and international success of Charouz Racing System.
As a talented competitor, he claimed multiple titles in various Europe-based touring car championships and hill climbs.
He went on to compete at the highest level in the World Touring Car Championship and also recorded class success at the iconic ‘Race to the Clouds’ Pikes Peak event in North America.
Those successes contributed to Antonín becoming a five-time recipient of the ‘Golden Steering Wheel’ accolade in his native Czech Republic and it wasn’t long before he expanded his motorsport involvement beyond the race seat.
As well as identifying and supporting the next generation of racers, and playing a leading role in organising DTM and A1GP events, Antonín founded Charouz Racing System in 1985 – a team that has gone on to record massive success at home and abroad.
With his own team, Antonín has won 43 titles during a 35-year period and remains an influential figure that is helping to develop the next generation of star drivers, engineers and mechanics.
Past alumni of Charouz Racing System include ex-Red Bull F1 driver Vitantonio Liuzzi, Toro Rosso F1 racer and multiple Le Mans winner Brendon Hartley, Indianapolis 500 champion Alexander Rossi and F1 podium finisher Vitaly Petrov.