Frédéric Vasseur

Fresh out of ESTACA (Higher School of Aeronautical Techniques and Automotive Engineering) in 1996 Frederic Vasseur started his own racing team, ASM, which he initially intended to race in the Formula 3 Championship, signing a contract with car manufacturer, Renault. It was a key moment in the rise of this team: and with the first title came recognition for the young company, which made it possible for Frederic Vasseur to make a partnership agreement with Mercedes after Renault decided to withdraw from the world of Formula 3.

ASM then took part in a new adventure, the F3 Euro Series - born from a merger between the French and German F3 championships - in 2003. Frederic Vasseur devoted the first year of ASM in this discipline with the construction of a long-term plan on the agenda. Since 2004, the team has been undefeated in the F3 Euro Series, securing 51 victories from 80 races, and was also very successful in the prestigious international races, such as the Masters of Zandvoort, Macao and Korea.

Several great names in auto racing were born under Frederic Vasseur’s watchful eye in the F3 EuroSeries: Jamie Green, Lewis Hamilton, Paul Di Resta and Romain Grosjean but the talent did not stop there. The creation of ART Grand Prix with Nicolas Todt made it possible for Frederic to continue his rise in the world of auto sport with ART GP being the winner of six titles in GP2 including three driver titles for Nico Rosberg, Lewis Hamilton and Nico Hülkenberg.

In 2010 and 2011, four titles in GP3 came on the list thanks to the successes of Esteban Gutierrez and Valtteri Bottas.

Nicolas Todt

Since he was born, Nicolas Todt grew up in the world of Motor Racing so for him. Turning his passion into his profession was a natural progression as well as a true achievement. A graduate of the commercial school of Toulouse (2000), Nicolas founded his first company, NTNZ, specialized in the communication and creation of Internet sites, in 2001. It was a successful first move into the field and he created for himself a large agenda of relations and a sphere of competence which naturally led him to aim even higher.

Opportunity was born from a meeting with Felipe Massa in 2003, who Nicolas began to manage when the Brazilian had been hired by the Scuderia Ferrari Formula One team as a test driver.

Nicolas created a new company, All Road Management, specialized in Motorsport consulting that currently takes care of the career of Felipe Massa, Pastor Maldonado, both F1 drivers, Jules Bianchi, GP2 driver and FFSA team member and the young and Aaro Vainio from Finland.

Two years after the creation of All Road Management, Nicolas joined Frederic Vasseur who was in charge of the ASM F3 team to create ART Grand Prix and enter the new stepping stone to F1, the GP2 championship. Success came right away as the team clinched all titles in 2005 and 2006 with Nico Rosberg and Lewis Hamilton. At fall 2007 ART Grand Prix merged with ASM the F3 Team. Today, ART Grand Prix evolves in GP2 and GP3.

Guillaume Capietto

A graduate of one of the most prestigious school of engineers in France - the ESTACA, School for Aeronautical Techniques and Automotive Engineering, in 2000 - Guillaume Capietto is currently employed as the technical director of ART Grand Prix.

This impassioned karting racer (victorious in the 1998 24h of Le Mans and European runner up ICA 1999) began his career at ASM in 1999 being the person in charge of the design of development simulators. Team manager of the Formula Renault 2.0 team in 2002, Guillaume helped secure their first national title with Alexandre Premat before becoming Jamie Green’s race engineer, with whom he became F3 EuroSeries champion in 2004.

Guillaume climbed even higher by continuing his role as race engineer beside some of the best drivers of the moment with whom he supplied supreme dedication in the F3 Euro Series, in GP2 and in GP3.

Now technical director at ART Grand Prix, Guillaume is responsible for the management of the team on long term projects as well as being responsible for the technical choices and development.