Paddock radar from the ADAC GT Masters at the Lausitzring

• Heavyweight boxers at Lausitzring
• ADAC GT Masters experience online in ADAC GT Masters Time Attack
• Ex-Formel 1 driver Alguersuari with actress Chiara Martegiani at Lausitzring
• The engineers of the future call on PIXUM Team Schubert

‘Big guys’ guest: On Sunday, the three heavyweight boxers Francesco Pianeta, Steffen Kretschmann and Tom Schwarz visited the ADAC GT Masters at the Lausitzring and staged a ‘show’ training session in the paddock. The visit to the Lausitzring was a short break for the boxers in an otherwise intensive training programme, because next Friday (May 30th), the three ‘big guys’ from SES-Boxing will appear in the ‘ran+ Boxen Nacht der Schwergewichte’ in Dresden’s EnergieVerbund Arena. Pianeta will be fighting for the title of WBO European Champion, while Kretschmann is hoping to win the International German Championship.

Alguersuari with actress: Ex-Formula 1 driver Jaime Alguersuari did not come unaccompanied to his ADAC GT Masters debut in the Mercedes-Benz SLS AMG at the Lausitzring. The Spaniard arrived with his girlfriend, Italian actress Chiara Martegiani who was able to watch Alguersuari in his debut race on Saturday, as he and team-mate Nico Bastian took eighth place.

Alguersari all excited about football: For most of the ADAC GT Masters drivers on Saturday night, the Football Champions League final was a must-see on television. Jaime Alguersuari, the only Spanish driver competing in the ADAC GT Masters, also got quite excited about the match. “It was a thrilling game, Sergio Ramos was just amazing,” said Alguersuari, pleased with Real Madrid’s victory.

Fancy a drive in the ADAC GT Masters: Fans at the Lausitzring had the chance to try out the ADAC GT Masters super sports cars in virtual reality. ADAC GT Masters-partner RaceRoom set up a race simulator in the paddock with which fans were able to drive the original racing cars from the 2013 ADAC GT Masters season. RaceRoom and the computer gaming company SimBin are currently developing the ADAC GT Masters Experience race game that comes to market at the end of the year, but fans at the ADAC GT Masters race weekend can now post best times online in a ‘Time Attack’ in the ‘RaceRoom Experience’. The best online racing drivers can win VIP tickets to an ADAC GT Masters weekend. Further information available online at http://insider.simbin.com/adac-gt-masters-time-attack-2014/

Ogier surrounded: Autograph hunters were hot on the trail of World Rally Champion Sébastien Ogier. At an autograph session that took place as part of the Pit Walks on Saturday and Sunday morning, the pits occupied by Prosperia C Abt Racing were surrounded by hordes of fans seeking autographs and the Volkswagen works driver was at the top of their list.

Young engineers at the Lausitzring: The ADAC GT Masters weekend at the Lausitzring also played host to a group of students participating in the Formula 1 in Schools technology competition as they visited the Super Sports Car League. A group from Grotmoor secondary school in Hamburg, who finished fourth in last year’s German Formula 1 in Schools competition, were at PIXUM Team Schubert to hear about the different technologies utilised in the ADAC GT Masters super sports cars and to meet world rally champion Ogier. They were so thrilled to be at the ADAC GT Masters that they immediately decided to extend their trip to the Lausitzring until Sunday. Formula 1 in Schools is an international technology competition in which pupils aged eleven to 19 years develop a miniature Formula 1 racing car on the computer and then race it.

Bunnies support Frentzen: There was a lot of commotion centred around the Mercedes-Benz SLS AMG of Heinz-Harald Frentzen and Luca Stolz on the grid for Sunday’s race. Two Playboy Bunnies were on hand to wish the two Mercedes-Benz drivers luck and were popular with fans taking photos.

Warm-up in Dresden: Sébastien Ogier, Jaime Alguersuari, Heinz-Harald Frentzen and Markus Winkelhock were ‘busy’ in Dresden on Thursday evening ahead of the two races at the Lausitzring. The World Rally Champion and the three ex-Formula 1 drivers got journalists in the right mood for the race weekend during a media dinner held at the Neumarkt in the shadow of the Frauenkirche.