From the workshop
to the grid.

On his father's side: the air-cooled Porsches Michael Karavasili restored and built at RSK Engineering (Renn Sport Karavasili), the family's specialist workshop, and the surname now on the car.

On his mother's side, the racing runs just as deep: his grandmother was a racing driver herself, and Breakell Racing, the team Leonidas would later debut with, is family through his mum's cousin. Cars and competition, from every direction.

Before four wheels, Leonidas was a serious alpine ski racer. He came up with Team Evolution and raced for Team GB through the British system, the GB FIS squad, then the Europa Cup. In 2024 he topped the men's overall standings to take the Fedden Trophy.

The discipline, the nerve, the fine margins between winning and not. All of it transferred.

No karting, no junior single-seater ladder. Leonidas came to motorsport late and went straight in at the sharp end, stepping into the red Breakell Racing Ginetta in 2022, the family team. What he brought instead: an elite athlete's discipline, a racer's instinct, and a lifetime spent around cars.

He announced himself immediately, taking pole position in his very first race, then added two wins late in the season on the way to P4 overall. A rookie year that proved the talent was real.

Stepping up to the McLaren Trophy Europe in the McLaren Artura Trophy Evo with ALM Motorsport, Leonidas delivered: a 100% podium rate, eight podiums from eight races, pole and Driver of the Weekend at the Paul Ricard finale, podiums at Monza, Spa and the Nürburgring, and runner-up in the championship.

In 2026 Leonidas races the Audi R8 LMS GT3 with RaceIng in the Nürburgring Langstrecken-Serie. He earned his Nordschleife permit in 2025 in a Hyundai, then raced NLS 3 in a Porsche 911 GT3 Cup to learn the circuit at race pace.

The GT3 development programme has run all season: Hockenheim, the Nürburgring GP circuit, Spa, and first GT3 laps of the Nordschleife itself in July. Race debut in the Audi: the NLS 8/9 double-header in September.

Everything in 2026 builds towards one thing: a crack at the Nürburgring 24 Hours in 2027. Twenty-four hours, one lap short of 26 kilometres, and the biggest endurance race in Germany. That is the goal the whole programme points at.