{"id":8336,"date":"2025-04-08T17:21:28","date_gmt":"2025-04-08T15:21:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hockenheim-historic.de\/?p=8336"},"modified":"2025-04-08T17:21:28","modified_gmt":"2025-04-08T15:21:28","slug":"adac-hockenheim-historic-legendary-racing-heroes-in-legendary-racing-cars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hockenheim-historic.de\/en\/2025\/04\/adac-hockenheim-historic-legendary-racing-heroes-in-legendary-racing-cars\/","title":{"rendered":"ADAC Hockenheim Historic \/\/ Legendary racing heroes in legendary racing cars"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>20th edition of the Jim Clark Revival from 9 to 11 May at the Hockenheimring<\/li>\n<li>The \u2018Golden Era Touring Cars\u2019 are one of the highlights of the programme<\/li>\n<li>DTM icon Roland Asch competes in two legendary racing cars<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The programme for the 20th edition of the ADAC Hockenheim Historic \u2013 The Jim Clark Revival leaves nothing to be desired. Historic racing cars from all classes will present a thrilling cross-section of almost a century of motorsport at one of the largest classic events in Europe. Whether formula cars, sports and GT cars or touring cars \u2013 real racing fans will get their money\u2019s worth with more than 500 participants and their automotive treasures over the three days of the event.<\/p>\n<p>The colourful programme is packed with highlights. There are the almost priceless GP racers from the 1920s to 1960s from the Historic Grand Prix Cars Association, which are making their way back to Hockenheim after many years. Or the British guests from Masters Historic Racing, who will be at the start with four series: The \u2018Masters Racing Legends for 1966 to 1985 F1 Cars\u2019, the \u2018Masters Le Mans 90s+\u2019 as well as the \u2018Masters Pre-66 Touring Cars\u2019 and \u2018Masters Gentlemen Drivers\u2019.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Impressive field of touring cars<\/strong><br \/>\nThe crowd favourites at the ADAC Hockenheim Historic undoubtedly include the \u2018Touring Cars Golden Era\u2019 with their cars from the \u2018good old\u2019 DTM up to 1995, the super touring cars from the STW and, more recently, the various Porsche Cup models. A total of 92 participants have registered for the rendezvous at the Hockenheimring, which is unprecedented. And this impressive field includes not only the legendary racing cars of this unforgotten era, but also legends at the wheel. Legends like Roland Asch.<br \/>\nIn 1988, his very first year in the DTM, Roland Asch celebrated his first of two runner-up titles in a private Mercedes 190E 2.3-16 at the tender age of 38. The second followed in 1993 as a Mercedes works driver in the Class 1 190. He has competed in 172 DTM races, with six victories, 32 podium finishes and five pole positions to his name. The Swabian from Ammerbuch is now 74 years old \u2013 but the racing spirit still radiates from his every pore.<\/p>\n<p><strong>DTM legend Roland Asch has ambitious goals for the race weekend<\/strong><br \/>\n\u2018Hockenheim,\u2019 emphasises Asch, \u2019is my home race. Driving there has always been something special for me. That\u2019s why, and because I\u2019ve always been a fan of Jim Clark, I\u2019m particularly looking forward to the Jim Clark Revival.\u2019 Where Roland will start in two cars. Firstly, a Mercedes 190E 2.5-16 Evo1 from 1989, which he shares with Ferdi Weischenberg. And then the Ford Sierra RS500 Cosworth, which he lovingly rebuilt from 1986 together with his son Sebastian (38), who is also successful in motorsport. And which he will also be driving together with the two-time ADAC GT Masters champion. With hardly any less drive than back then.<\/p>\n<p>\u2018Even if there are a few pinches due to age \u2013 everything in the racing car feels just like it did back then,\u2019 laughs Roland. \u2018The racing series is great, you always meet old faces. Whether it\u2019s Heger, Nissen, Thiim, Grohs or others \u2013 it\u2019s always nice to get together with the guys. I\u2019m particularly looking forward to sharing the Cossie with Sebastian, which we built ourselves.\u2019 The ex-professional has no lack of ambition: \u2018I want to be at the front, I want to win, that hasn\u2019t changed. That\u2019s just the way it is for a racing driver. There\u2019s no value in just rolling around.\u2019 The fact that the old cars are inferior to the modern cars in almost all performance-relevant aspects does not bother Asch \u2013 on the contrary: \u2018I prefer driving the old cars. H-shift, intermediate throttle, no ABS or other electronic aids, the good old popometer that counts \u2013 that\u2019s what I like.\u2019<\/p>\n<p>According to Asch, it is easy to explain why classic events such as the ADAC Hockenheim Historic have been booming for years: \u2018Everything used to be less professional, but perhaps more honest and more tangible for the fans. And that\u2019s also the case with the \u2018Touring Cars Golden Era\u2019: the spectators come very close, our team is there with a tent and we sit together in the evening \u2013 just like we used to. And that\u2019s very nice.\u2019<\/p>\n<p>According to Asch, it is easy to explain why classic events such as the ADAC Hockenheim Historic have been booming for years: \u2018In the past, everything was less professional, but perhaps more honest and more tangible for the fans. And that\u2019s also the case with the \u2018Touring Cars Golden Era\u2019: the spectators come very close, our team is there with a tent and we sit together in the evening \u2013 just like we used to. And that\u2019s very nice.\u2019<\/p>\n<p><strong>Eleven fascinating racing series, family-friendly admission prices<\/strong><br \/>\nEleven racing series are on the grid at the ADAC Hockenheim Historic and each is as steeped in history and fascinating as the next. And, as always, there is visual and acoustic enjoyment on the small circuit. The Friday ticket costs just 17 euros, the day tickets for Saturday and Sunday 39 and 34 euros respectively and the weekend ticket 54 euros. Naturally including grandstand seating and paddock with a varied supporting programme. Pupils and students pay half price, children under 14 and wheelchair users are admitted free of charge. Tickets are available at the box office or in the ticket shop.<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"button button--editor button--colorPrimary button--hasIcon button-solid\" href=\"https:\/\/tickets.hockenheimring.de\/section\/adac-hockenheim-historic-2025-agmi?lang=en\"><span class=\"button__label\">Tickets<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>20th edition of the Jim Clark Revival from 9 to 11 May at the Hockenheimring The \u2018Golden Era Touring Cars\u2019&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":8333,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8336","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-announcements"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hockenheim-historic.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8336","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hockenheim-historic.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hockenheim-historic.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hockenheim-historic.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hockenheim-historic.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8336"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.hockenheim-historic.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8336\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8337,"href":"https:\/\/www.hockenheim-historic.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8336\/revisions\/8337"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hockenheim-historic.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8333"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hockenheim-historic.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8336"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hockenheim-historic.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8336"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hockenheim-historic.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8336"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}