Antal Zsigó, owner and driver of Gamota Racing, continues to demonstrate what it means to build a team from the ground up. The 40-year-old Slovakian turned his racing passion into reality following success in the agro‑trading business with his company Gamota and keeps proving himself on track with championship‑winning campaigns and recent triumphs in the Nürburgring Langstrecken-Serie (NLS) and International GT Open.
Having overcome serious illness and started racing later than most, Zsigó refuses to let anything hold him back. He approaches every challenge with his own vision and determination. With former Nürburgring 24 Hours winners Moritz Kranz and David Jahn joining the team for its first full NLS season, he already has his sights set on adding more trophies to his growing collection and making Gamota Racing known on the bigger stages of motorsport.
From Soybean Business to Racing Success
Having founded Gamota in 2011 as a small family company, Zsigó focused on the production of soybean oil and soybean expeller.
“It’s one of the biggest agricultural companies in Slovakia,” says the successful businessman proudly to GT REPORT. “But after some serious illnesses, I had to choose another way of life and not just taking care of the company.”
From that moment on, having overcome the biggest challenge of his life, the Slovakian decided to live his life on track.
“I’ve always loved cars and always wanted to be a racing driver. The passion was deeply inside me. I started developing a race team and I started racing.”
Racing started late because his first full season was just three years ago in the GT Cup Series racing in Eastern and Central Europe driving the BMW M4 GT4.
“I was strictly restricted by my parents,” he recalls. “After I became successful in my career, I got in touch with my cousin, who had a racing team in Slovakia. He was very successful with that, and he gave me the opportunity to try his GT4 car.”
Making the most of that chance, he went on to claim both the GT4 Sprint and Endurance Championships.
“It was against quite a big field, including other GT3 cars. But after I won both championships, everybody started talking to me. I told them my talent isn’t that big, but people said, ‘Why don’t you try GT3? As a bronze driver, you should be successful.’ It was very scary at that point to get into a GT3 car and my first race started with a crash.”
But that didn’t see him giving up. “The following race I won with a rebuilt car. That started my career and I thought I was a very good driver at that time.”
In 2024 the Slovakian driver started racing on the Nordschleife.
“Moritz Kranz was my coach to get my Permit B. His coaching skills are the highest level I have seen compared to previous coaches I had.”
Looking back at the moment when he did his first NLS race to get his permit to drive GT4 means a lot to him, and the level of driving is something to look up to.
“I really enjoyed my first race to get my Permit B on the Nordschleife. The start was in the rain; it was something epic for me. To get the permit afterwards, I was crying like a little child. So proud. For me, that was a very big dream coming true, and the level of drivers you race against, I recognized that I have my limits.”
Representing Slovakia with Ambition
Gamota Racing started in 2026 with support from car company AZCARS in Slovakia.
“After joining some teams and seeing what the mistakes were in some big professional teams, seeing the gap for good results, I thought I had to try to build up a private team.”
The 40-year-old is the team owner and driver with a clear goal in mind.
“I would like to present my team to the Slovak public. We are not very well known.”
Winning the three-hour-race at the Slovakia Ring with the team a couple of weeks back was a very important milestone.
“We needed to show up to raise our marketing promises.”
The Slovakian racing team has two BMW M4 GT3s, one built for sprint races such as GT Open, and the other for longer‑distance NLS events. But that will change soon.
“We are doing some races from GT Open; we are planning to do Paul Ricard, Monza, and Barcelona, but we enjoy endurance racing much more, we have to say. Our plan is that the second car will be updated for the NLS as well, so it can compete in the last three races.”
The goal for the team is to expand even further together with BMW.
“It started with their customer racing program, and it was working quite well. My cousin was the first one who established a racing team in Slovakia together with BMW. Without his help, I wouldn’t be here.
“There is an inquiry to provide others with the same quality of car. What we are doing is quite a big dream of mine as a team owner; to serve customers at the Nordschleife. I would like to be a stable partner in the SP9 class in the future with at least one or two GT3 cars, and maybe even more race cars.”
Forging ahead in his own way
With the team’s main focus set on the iconic German circuit, for now with their only car there, Gamota Racing takes on the challenge with two experienced German teammates alongside the Slovakian: 39-year-old Moritz Kranz and 35-year-old David Jahn.
Both drivers don’t race very often, but their speed is undeniable as both have won multiple championships throughout their careers.
“I have a theory about driving GT cars,” says the Gamota Racing team owner. “I think the Cup drivers are the best drivers in the world. That’s my opinion.”
He elaborates further on why he picked those two names.
“I saw that David Jahn did two lap records here. He was always qualifying with a Cup 2 car among the first ten overall cars, all the time. That was my intuition. With Moritz, I established a friendship, and his driving is very good and helpful for me.”
With a strong start to the NLS season, scoring overall pole position, several Pro/Am podiums, and a win. The team now prepares for its biggest challenge yet.
“Next year the plan is to do the 24‑hour race here in the SP9 class. Absolutely, that’s the main goal. That’s why we are here, to learn everything and prepare.”
But the most important thing is to have fun, improve yourself, and keep moving forward with the team.
“I would like to establish a very high‑standard customer racing team and, on a personal level, to be even faster on track and to enjoy the racing.
“But I have to say. My dreams already became true.”
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