With victories in the drivers' and team championships in the ADAC GT Masters and its first title in karting, HRT's young talent program can look back on a successful year. The young talents from HRT also secured class victory at the ADAC RAVENOL 24h Nürburgring. Ulrich Fritz, Chief Executive Officer of Haupt Racing Team, analyzes the debut year with the Ford Mustang GT3 in the junior program and the first season of karting involvement.

OK-N to be introduced as a new engine concept. Five classes planned for 2026. Road to DTM program remains part of the German Kart Championship.

At the end of last season, the Haupt Racing Team announced the return of the Ford brand to the ADAC GT Masters in 2025 after a ten-year hiatus. Now it has been revealed that HRT Ford Performance will be racing with three Ford Mustang GT3. These will make a first appearance at the season-opener from 23rd to 25th May at the Lausitzring, as part of the DTM programme.

The finale of this season’s German Kart Championship takes place in Wackersdorf this weekend and promises to be the biggest event of the year, with over 220 competitors set to line up at Pro Kart Raceland. The focus will be on the title races, with all to play for in five classes. The Super Heats and Finals will be streamed live from 09:30.

The finale of this season’s German Kart Championship takes place in Wackersdorf this weekend and promises to be the biggest event of the year, with over 220 competitors set to line up at Pro Kart Raceland. The focus will be on the title races, with all to play for in five classes. The Qualifying Heats will be streamed live from 13:10.

The finale of this season’s German Kart Championship takes place in Wackersdorf this weekend and promises to be the biggest event of the year, with over 220 competitors set to line up at Pro Kart Raceland. The focus will be on the title races, with all to play for in five classes. Both race days will be streamed live.

Record field, with more than 220 drivers. Five titles still up for grabs in the DKM. Racing series and teams present themselves in the paddock.

The ADAC Formula 4 Junior Team will kick off the second round of the FFSA Formula 4 Championship at Lédenon in France this weekend (10th to 12th May). Mathilda Paatz and Montego Maassen want to build on the good performances from the start of the season on the Easter weekend in the south of France. This means that the two drivers of the ADAC Formula 4 Junior Team will be supported by lubricant manufacturer Ravenol this season. The company from Werther in North Rhine-Westphalia is a long-standing supporter of young sports, and the Ravenol logos can be seen on the sidepods of the Formula 4 racers of Paatz and Maassen.

A record number of aspiring young GT drivers have registered for the 2024 Aston Martin Racing Driver Academy as the British ultra-luxury sportscar manufacturer begins a new search to endorse an eighth graduate from the successful and prestigious initiative.

The ADAC is strengthening youth development in the karting scene and expanding the successfully established “Road to DTM” programme to incorporate the top German karting series, the German Kart Championship (DKM), in the 2024 season.

There is a new addition to our roster of young, talented drivers, as Carrie Schreiner is announced as the team’s contender in the 2024 F1 Academy series. The 25-year-old German driver will be representing the team in the second season of the all-female series, racing one of the Campos Racing entries in the Sauber team’s colours.

Thomas Preining made history in Hockenheim. The high-flying Porsche driver became the first DTM champion from Austria in only his second season in the DTM, crowning an impressive year and adding a special chapter to his own CV and that of others around him. The Manthey EMA racer also achieved a historic triumph for Porsche: Preining’s virtuoso effort in 2023 ensured that the trophy cabinet of the Stuttgart-based sports car manufacturer will include the DTM trophy for the first time.

Excitement right down to the finish: Taylor Barnard (18/GBR/PHM Racing) came through an exciting race in ADAC Formula 4 to take a narrow victory over team-mate Nikita Bedrin (ITA) on Sunday. Behind them, Valentin Kluss (15/Bad Mergentheim/PHM Racing) snatched third place and his first podium in the final metres at the DEKRA Lausitzring. “It is unbelievable that I managed to win from eighth on the grid. I saw in my rear mirror that the lead over Nikita was coming down all the time.

Win number one of the season for Nikita Bedrin (ITA/PHM Racing): the 16-year-old Italian took victory in a wet ADAC Formula 4 race at the DEKRA Lausitzring, finishing ahead of Taylor Barnard (18/GBR/PHM Racing) who made it a one-two for Berlin-based PHM Racing at the team’s home event at the 3.478-kilometre racetrack. Rasmus Joutsimies (19/FIN/Jenzer Motorsport) came home third to claim his first podium and first place in the Rookie competition.

Big celebrations for Taylor Barnard (18/PHM Racing): The British driver claimed his first victory in ADAC Formula 4 in race ten of the season at the Nürburgring. Andrea Kimi Antonelli (15/Prema Racing) did cross the finish line in first place, but the Italian was handed a five-second penalty for a false start.

A first for Conrad Laursen (Prema Racing): The Dane celebrated his first victory in ADAC Formula 4 in the ninth race of the season, which took place at Circuit Zandvoort and featured on the support programme for the ADAC GT Masters.

Lights-to-flag victory for Andrea Kimi Antonelli (Prema Racing) in Zandvoort: The Italian raced to his sixth win of the ADAC Formula 4 season at the Formula 1 circuit. Not even a safety car could bring him out of his stride. Runner-up was Antonelli’s team-mate Rafael Camara (17) from Brazil, who was also the best-placed rookie.

Carrie Schreiner, one of the quickest female drivers in German motorsport, is set to join the BMW M2 Cup series for the 2021 season. The Schaeffler brand ambassador will drive the green-and-white BMW M2 CS Racing machine in six of the twelve races. Schreiner was full of praise for the car after her first few laps behind the wheel.
 

ADAC Formula 4 goes into its seventh year in 2021. There will once again be a total of 21 races contested over seven events timed to coincide with the ADAC GT Masters weekends. On the technical side, the junior series has opted for continuity, with Formula 1 supplier Pirelli retained as exclusive tyre partner. ADAC Formula 4 will continue to offer talented youngsters from Germany and abroad a competitive platform for entering the world of formula racing in the coming year. The curtain-raiser to the seventh season of the series will get underway on the weekend of 14th - 16th May 2021 at Motorsport Arena Oschersleben.
 

Klettwitz: Saturday's ADAC GT Masters race at the Lausitzring was suspenseful right up to the last few metres. The Audi pairing of Max Hofer (21, AUT) and Christopher Haase (33, GER, both Montaplast by Land Motorsport) won by a margin of only 0.147 seconds ahead of Indy Dontje (27, NL) and Maximilian Götz (34, GER) in the Mercedes-AMG of Mann-Filter-Team HTP-Winward. Robert Renauer (35, GER, Precote Herberth Motorsport), partnered this time by Klaus Bachler (29, AUT), kept his title hopes alive with a P3 finish.