Riccardo Agostini
Senior leaders are asked to make decisions in seconds that they would once have made in days, while a team of specialists waits on the call. Composure under that pressure is treated as personality, not capability, and it is rarely trained. The cost shows up later, in fatigued teams, late corrections, and decisions that nobody can defend.
Riccardo Agostini is a three-time Italian GT Sprint champion who works with leadership teams on composure, coordination, and recovery in environments where mistakes are immediate and visible.
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Why organisations work with Riccardo Agostini
- Eight national and international titles across single-seater and GT racing, including three consecutive Italian GT Sprint championships and the Lamborghini Super Trofeo World Final. The credibility is documented, not narrated.
- A working understanding of how a small, specialised team performs under repeated time pressure. Pit crew, race engineer, and driver decisions land in the same second, and Agostini speaks to how that coordination is built and held.
- Instructor experience at Centro Internazionale Guida Sicura, the Italian advanced driving school. He coaches as well as competes, which translates into a session that can teach, not only inspire.
- Italian and English delivery for European corporate audiences without translation overhead.
Biography highlights
- Three-time Italian GT Sprint champion (2019, 2020, 2021) and 2021 Italian GT Endurance champion.
- 2017 Lamborghini Super Trofeo North America champion and Lamborghini Super Trofeo World Final winner.
- 2015 Porsche Carrera Cup Italia champion; 2012 Italian Formula Three champion (European and Italian series).
- Tested a Ferrari Formula One car in November 2012 as the Italian F3 rookie prize.
- Current factory-supported driver competing for Richard Mille AF Corse in the 2025 European Le Mans Series and the 2025 24 Hours of Le Mans.
- Development driver and instructor at Centro Internazionale Guida Sicura, founded by former F1 driver Andrea De Adamich.
Biography
A GT car at racing speed sends information to the driver faster than most people can read a single line of text. The driver acts on it, the engineer on the pit wall reads telemetry from the same lap, and the crew prepares the stop. Three roles, one decision, repeated for two hours. That is the working environment Agostini has competed in since 2015.
His titles span four manufacturer programmes. Porsche Carrera Cup Italia in 2015. Lamborghini Super Trofeo North America and the Super Trofeo World Final in 2017. Italian GT Sprint with Audi Sport Italia in 2019, 2020, and 2021, alongside the Italian GT Endurance title in 2021. He now races a Ferrari 296 GT3 for Richard Mille AF Corse in the European Le Mans Series and the 24 Hours of Le Mans.
The relevance to leadership audiences sits in two places. The first is composure: how a driver handles a bad lap, a strategy call that goes against him, or a mechanical failure with thirty minutes still to run. The second is coordination: how a driver, engineer, and crew of specialists make a sequence of decisions in compressed time without re-litigating each one. Both translate cleanly to senior teams operating in markets where the response window has shrunk.
Agostini also coaches. As an instructor at Centro Internazionale Guida Sicura, the high-performance driving school founded by former F1 driver Andrea De Adamich, he develops younger drivers and corporate clients. That teaching role is what differentiates him from a circuit-only speaker. He has practised the translation from the cockpit to the classroom, which is the part that most motorsport profiles describe but few have actually done.
Key speaking topics
- Performance under pressure
- Team coordination in compressed decision windows
- Recovery from mistakes and setbacks
- Coaching and talent development
- Discipline and preparation as competitive advantage
- Resilience through career uncertainty
- Cross-cultural team leadership in international motorsport
Ideal for
- Sales and commercial leadership teams operating in high-frequency decision environments
- Operations and manufacturing leaders building cross-functional team coordination
- Talent and L&D directors designing high-performance coaching programmes
- Corporate hospitality programmes for automotive, engineering, and luxury brand audiences
Audience outcomes
- A working model for how composure is built and held, drawn from cockpit experience rather than theory
- Specific examples of how driver, engineer, and crew compress decisions into seconds without losing alignment
- A view of how mistakes are processed inside a race weekend so that the next session is not compromised
- A coach’s perspective on developing younger team members under demanding conditions