On the third weekend of February 2022, a 24-hour race for series electric vehicles was held at the Hockenheim F1 Ring. Mars Orbiter was part of the Neuss GmbH “Roadster Classic” team.
Contrary to the factory teams from VW, Jaguar, Ford, Honda etc., the Roadster Classic team did not stuff their box with telemetry, monitors, tires and engineers, but traveled very minimalistically with 4 garden chairs, a portable pizza oven and a small DC charger at. All of that was enough to finish first with a 19-lap lead over a Hyundai Kona and a Kia Niro. The German so-called “premium manufacturers”, as far as they dared to start, could only play a subordinate role.