Report & Gallery: The ADAC Hockenheim Historic-Das Jim Clark Revival 2026

Submitted by Marcel Hundscheid on May 13, 2026

By Marcel Hundscheid / Speed-O-Graphica

The 21st edition of the ADAC Hockenheim Historic drew around 46,000 fans to the Hockenheimring for three days of historic motorsport. The attending crowd enjoyed more than 500 participants, with the emphasis this year on the various classes within the touring car categories.

The historic part of the program this year included Tourenwagen Golden Era, Class One Revival, Revival Deutsche Rennsport Meisterschaft, Golden Era Classic Cup, BOSS GP, Lurani Trophy, ADAC Graf Berghe von Trips Pokal, Formula Vee, and Raceclub Germany. For fans of modern motorsport, there were also races of the Gebhardt Ginetta GT5 Challenge and the Velom Watches Supercup.

The Touring Car Golden Era always provides plenty of spectacle, with more than 50 iconic cars from the DTM era of the 1980s and the STW touring cars of the 1990s entertaining the crowd this weekend.

Add to this the names of a number of stars from that era, such as Altfrid Heger, Sebastian Asch, Kris Nissen, and Marc Hessel, who subsequently also claimed the leading roles, and the picture is complete. 68-year-old Altfrid Heger scored two consecutive start-finish victories in his Audi 200 M86, then drove home a start-win finish, although Ronny Scheer put him under pressure throughout the first race.

The Revival of the DRM Championship always draws large crowds to their feet with a rich reflection of all the fine things this popular championship offered in Europe during the seventies and eighties. In Hockenheim, a varied field of entries was once again on display, including former Group 2, 4, and 5 cars. Although two Zakspeed Ford Capri Turbos provided plenty of fireworks in Group 5, there were no Porsche 935s or BMW CSLs on the starting grid this time.

Peter Mücke and Ronny Scheer’s Zakspeed Capri’s clashed with Michael Kammermann in his BMW M1 Procar during the first race. The Swiss driver managed to break the Capris’ hegemony and claimed second place. However, he had to bow deeply to the 79-year-old Peter Mücke, who drove his Zakspeed Capri convincingly to victory.

During the second race, neither Kammermann nor Scheer took part. It then seemed as though Mücke could drive towards his second victory. However, bad luck struck, and the German was forced to pull his Capri to the side. The win subsequently went convincingly to the 2.4-liter Opel Kadett C Coupe of Giorgis Katzidis.

Single-seater enthusiasts were treated to the speed monsters of the BOSS GP Series and the significantly slower, but certainly no less spectacular, Lurani Trophy for Formula Junior cars during this edition of the ADAC Hockenheim Historic. In the BOSS GP, as expected, Ingo Gerstl took the overall victory twice in a Toro Rosso STR1. In the F1 class of the BOSS GP, these types of cars are only required to clock 15 minutes of race time, which has everything to do with the cost aspect. Gerstl was the only one to start the race this weekend with an F1 car. The other participants, however, had to complete the full race duration.

Alex Ames dominated the first race of the weekend in the Lurani Trophy for Formula Junior cars, impressively holding off Clive Richards. During the second race, it initially looked as though he would also claim the second race. However, as the condition of his tires deteriorated rapidly toward the final part of the race, Richards managed to close the gap. After a short but fierce duel, Richards struck on the very last lap and crossed the finish line first.

Enthusiasts of historic Formula 3 and Formula Ford cars were in for a treat thanks to the presence of the ADAC Graf Berghe von Trips Pokal. Both races were won by Patrick Andriessen in a Ralt RT3/83, who came, saw, and conquered in a very dominant fashion. The Golden Era Classic Cup for historic Porsches featured the smallest field of participants this time around. The first race on Saturday was claimed by Marcel Müller, after pole sitter Thomas Zellweger had to pull his 997 GT3 Cup to the side after three laps. On Sunday, he redeemed himself by claiming the victory following an exciting duel with Müller.

What the public was eagerly awaiting were the former Class 1 DTM cars featured in the Class One Revival. It had been announced beforehand that no race would take place, but rather a high-speed demo for former DTM cars from the period between 1993 and 2020. It brought not only a number of DTM cars onto the track that make their appearance before the arrival of the current GT3 era, but also cars such as the Opel Astra Coupe V8, Opel Vectra GTS V8, and the Audi TTR.

The date for next year’s Hockenheim Historic-Das Jim Clark Revival has already been set. The 22nd edition will take place on the weekend of May 7 to 9, 2027, and we are already looking forward to it with great impatience.