Adenauer Racing SportsFounded in 1997 by Christoph Lange, Adenauer Racing Sports is considered by a number of high-profile racing teams to be a stepping stone into the professional racing teams. The team was founded as a result of the founder's son, Peter, being unable to secure a contract for a team in the European Formula 3 Open.
Many of this team's drivers and their former colleagues hail from the Braunschweig region of Germany. As of a result, the team has a large number of loyal fans from that region. Their home circuit, Motorsport Arena Oschersleben, has tons of green and orange banners waving about in the stands during the German F1600 races. Despite having a large number of hometown sponsors, however, the team has not competed in any international racing events besides the British Formula 1600 Festival, where Formula 1600 teams from all over Europe compete for top honors in club-level racing. The team has scored numerous podiums in this prestigious race, with the best result a closely fought second place in 2006 by Max Schuster. Adenauer have also captured the team's title once and the driver's championship twice in the German Formula 1600 League, proving the team's success against larger and more well-funded teams such as Équipe Brandt, Erhard Motorsports, and Racing Team Kohl.
Lange also runs a go-kart racing team under the Adenauer Racing Sports banner. The team is no stranger to the local karting scene here, as with many of the drivers on their F1600 team, many of the team's kart racers often move up to higher racing classes with varying, but mostly great successes. Other teams may be able to outshine Adenauer in this discipline, but the teams that can out-do the team are mainly big-name world class groups such as Scarlet Devil Raceworks anyway. It's entirely possible that Adenauer could dominate the German karting scene if those world-class teams didn't race with them, but the team still scores a number of key wins here and there.
While the team could move up from club-level racing and into higher-level racing series, such as the European Formula 3 Open, or the German Touring Car Masters, the staff at Adenauer seem completely content with staying as a lower level team. Their reputation has been built around being the stepping stone for some of the world's best drivers, the first of which being Christoph Lange's son, Peter. He has since left Adenauer Racing Sports for the Japanese GT team Nice Boat Motorsports, where he has enjoyed a number of podium finishes, three on the very top. The team has since then churned out a number of well-known drivers traveling the European racing circuit, but none quite as well as Peter Lange.
Still, many younger Germans yearn for a high-quality team to jump into the German Formula 1600 League. Adenauer Racing Sports is their only option, and the team won't let any geek off the street drive their rides. Adenauer do require drivers to take a test drive with them before allowing drivers to sign a full season's contract, so it's not like they hire total rookies.
In any case, this club-level team is ready to kick some serious arse, both in their homeland and abroad.