Allen Berg is a retired* professional race driver from Calgary, Canada. His experience includes Formula One, Formula Two, Formula Three, Formula Atlantic, Sport Prototypes and Touring Cars.

In a world where numbers rule Allen Berg won a remarkable 25% of all the races he entered during a 25-year driving career!  His personal experience, gained in driving and running his own team, Scuadra Fortia in the North American Toyota Atlantic Series gave him a thorough understanding of how the business of modern motor racing works.  Berg also acted as in administrative capacity in organizing the very popular Formula Renault racing series in his home country,

Berg, who ranks among Canada's top international stars, won the Formula Pacific Tasman Championship, won at Silverstone against Ayrton Senna and Martin Brundle in perhaps the greatest year ever in British Formula 3, and qualified for nine starts in F1, a record bettered among his countrymen only by Gilles and Jacques Villeneuve.  

Berg's business and teaching experience includes co-founding a racing and high performance driving school, which meant designing school courses and authoring their content, coordinating all technical logistics, selecting and training support instructors as well as taking on Chief Instructor duties himself.

For three years Berg was the Chief Instructor for BMW Mexico in their "Fahrer Training" program, and prior to that, worked as Instructor for the Derek Daly Racing Academy, Skip Barber Racing School, and the Mosport Racing School.  He also served as Chief Instructor for the Calgary Sports Car Club in its basic competition license school, where he oversaw the instruction and evaluation of up to 70 drivers per program.

The 50 year-old Berg also has significant experience working as individual race driving coach and technical consultant for a number of professional drivers and teams.  That service encompasses trackside observation, interfacing with race engineers and drivers in technical debrief sessions, developing and assisting drivers in advanced driving techniques, mental imaging, visualization, and physical conditioning.  His work often includes analyzing and interpreting driver-related channels on on-board data acquisition systems.  The goal, as always, is the ongoing improvement of driver and team performance.

Most recently Berg has worked in the administration of racing series including event organization, negotiations with circuits and promoters, FIA procedures and regulations, transport logistics and customs, and marketing.

His newest effort is to bring a world-class formula car driving school to southern California.  His Allen Berg Racing Schools operation has a new home at the Auto Club Speedway in San Bernardino County.  "We are very excited about bringing our school to Auto Club Speedway,"  said Berg.  "We're committed to offering the best formula car training in the best equipment.  And, now being able to do that at one of racing's premier facilities is opportunity that we take very seriously."

*"re-purposed" driver might be a better word here … Berg's unique ability to explain driving technique and respond to students at all skill levels is the hallmark of his teaching program.

With a career at the pinnacle of professional motorsports spanning over thirty years, Stefan brings a vast amount of experience to ABRS. Through his meticulous approach to engineering, data systems and how this relates to the driver, Stefan has guided numerous drivers through the top levels of the sport.

Stefans career includes working with teams and drivers in Champcar, IRL, ALMS, Formula Atlantic, Formula Three and Formula Two.

With Stefan, ABRS is planning new and exiting programs to bring drivers up through the racing ladder. 

Early exposure to motorsports through his father’s involvement in East Coast Supermodifieds and living in Europe has had a lasting influence on Ashton’s life. Ashton has attended several racing schools and, at the age of 14 and in his first season of racing, he attained a 3rd place finish in the Western Canadian Regional’s.  He would later move into rally racing before returning to university. Realising his passion for motorsport and his technical ability, Ashton would make the move from the driver’s seat to apply his technical knowledge and business training to his passion. This has lead to many opportunities where he has performed many roles such as driving instructor, technical lead, race engineer, and crew-chief. His experience and work with top teams has brought several track records, race wins, and championships to him and the teams. Through his experience, Ashton has developed a broad knowledge of Data Acquisition Systems (DAS) and race engineering. Ashton has worked closely with some of the industry’s leading DAS manufactures in systems testing and development. He brings his racing experience and expertise into the classroom to provide an interesting and insightful analysis of the students’ driving technique and helps identify areas for improvement. This brings performance oriented learning to a whole new level.

A recent student comments, “it was a great experience and with Ashton’s review of the data I really felt my improvements from one lap session to the next”.

From the beginning, Troy demonstrated that he was destined to be a professional racer after winning his first karting race in 2005. 

In 2006, after only one year in racing, Troy was  crowned the NorCal Rotax Champion.  In 2007, Troy raced in the Formula Russell series at Infineon Raceway and in his rookie season, he finished 4th in the championship.

In 2008 Troy competed in the Italian Formula Master Championship. At the beginning of the year he moved to Italy; living on his own in an unfamiliar territory with an unfamiliar language. Troy acclimated himself quickly with the environment and learned the language. Castaneda made the most of his time there, finishing in the top 5.

In 2009 Troy first competed in the Gatorz Challenge of the Americas competing in DD2 and finished as Vice Champion in the Championship. He then competed in the Northern California Rotax Max Challenge Championship in DD2 and dominated the Championship winning 8 out of the 10 races. He also won the overall U.S. Rotax Nationals points Championship. Troy was invited to compete at the prestigious Rotax World Finals where qualified the highest out of any American in the history of the event. He would go on to finish an impressive 5th place.

In 2010, Troy won the Gatorz Challenge of the Americas Championship and will again compete in the Rotax World Championships.

Troy has a wide range of coaching experience from karts, to formula cars to sports cars.  He has worked with drivers as young as 7 all the way up to 70 years old.  Troy’s passion for racing and his desire to help others really shows while instructing.  From the beginner to the more experienced, Troy has worked with them all, helping them become a better, faster and smarter driver.

Richard Zimmermann started racing competitively 24 years ago. He raced everything Formula Fords, World Challenge, karts, etc which eventually led to two back to back championships while driving late model sedans in Mexico.

Fifteen years ago Richard begun his instructional and coaching career as a way to be around the race track and share his knowledge with aspiring drivers and his exuberant personality with corporations.

Richard was the Chief Instructor and Director of Operations of three different racing schools in Las Vegas where he honed his craft of coaching. Richard then moved on to coaching drivers in different professional and club racing series. Richard has coached film stars and professional drivers alike.

He loves the technical aspect of data acquisition and has recently become involved with The Race to Win, a cross country driving event to help keep kids in school that will become a documentary in 2012.

Nick brings international sport experience and expertise to the ABRS team. Nick has worked abroad on high profile sports/events including football (Brazil / England Football / Soccer Friendly), rugby (Canada / Argentina Rugby Friendly), athletics (World Track & Field Championships), motorsports (Moto GP & GP-2) as well as various multi-sport events in Canada, Australia and the Middle East (Doha Asian Games & 2011 Asian Cup)

With a background in event management, sponsorship development, spectator services, volunteer management, recognition programs, logistics and business planning, and having travelled extensively, Nick believes in the importance of incorporating a local flavour to each sporting event he has worked on. Currently living and working in the Middle East as a sports consultant, Nick also works as a Safety Car Driver at the Losail International Circuit in Qatar.

Stuart is a long time Motorsport enthusiast. He started wood shedding in the garage with his Father working on his first car. During the late '70's and early'80's, he was active in the Calgary Motorsport community both as a racer and grearhead. Although his presence in the racing community has diminished over the years, his love for the sport never has.

With over 25 years experience; Marketing, Promotions, Event Management, and his positively infectious manner in getting the party started, Stuart is a natural to administrate our Online Social Networking Presence. Drop him a message, you'll be glad you did!