Field features Roland Asch, Peter and Stefan Mücke, and Harald Grohs. Race cars from the golden era of touring car racing.

Asch, Mücke, Grohs, von Bayern – racing drivers whose names alone are enough to set the pulse of German motorsport fans racing. This weekend (10 – 12 September) the racing aces will line up in the Touring Car Classics, which features on the support programme for the German GT Championships at the DEKRA Lausitzring. When they take to the track, they will do so in popular cars from the 1970s, 80s and 90s. The classic touring cars will not only capture the imagination on the track, but also off it: fans will again have access to the paddock at the Lausitzring, where they can check out the legendary cars up close and personal.

The Mücke motorsport family will be represented at the weekend by not one member, but two: ADAC GT Masters race winner Stefan Mücke (39, Berlin) will be at the wheel of a Ford Sierra RS 500 Cosworth, run by the family’s own team BWT Mücke Motorsport Classic. “I am very much looking forward to the weekend,” says Mücke. “I know the ADAC GT Masters well, it is a great environment. It will be great to have spectators at the circuit again. The Sierra is an original championship-winning car from the 1988 BTCC. It won nine of the 13 races that season. With 500 hp, it is a real weapon. The relatively narrow tyres and H gearbox mean it is not easy to drive.” His father Peter Mücke (74, Berlin) will also thrill fans in Lusatia with a spectacular Group 5 Zakspeed Ford Capri Turbo.

Roland Asch (70, Ammerbuch) is also a real crowd favourite. The Swabian, who raced in the ADAC GT Masters in 2011 and 2012, drives a Mercedes 190E 2.5-16 Evo 2, with which he caused quite a stir in the DTM in the mid-1990s. Other names in the Touring Car Classics field include Harald Grohs (77, Essen) and Leopold von Bayern (78, Munich), who attracted plenty of attention in the DRM in the 1970s and 80s. They are at the wheel of a BMW M3 E30 and a BMW 320i E36. Former DTM race winner and winner of the Nürburgring 24 Hours, Peter Oberndorfer (65, Munich), lines up in an Alpina BMW M3 E30. Among the stand-out cars in the 30-strong field are a BMW M1 from the iconic Procar series, a BMW 3.0 CSL, and cars from the ADAC Super Touring Car Championship in the late 1990s, including the Audi A4 and the Opel Vectra.