Oldtimer Festival  The Oldtimer Festival (German pseudo-anglicism: vintage car festival) is a motor-sport event held by the DAMC 05 since 1983 on the Nürburgring, Germany. The official name of the event is "Internationales Oldtimer Festival um den "Jan-Wellem-Pokal" auf dem Nürburgring", known colloquially as the ""Jan Wellem"". The "Oldtimer Festival" is a three-day race meeting for historic automobiles, motorbikes and sidecars. The event is mainly for classic vehicles of the post war era up to cars and bikes of the 1970s. Many of the vehicles racing there are well known by the spectators from the times of their youth. The public is allowed free access to the paddock, which enables direct contact with the competitors. To enable the presenting of the respective vehicles in the correct setting, the paddock is divided in sections according to the race series and clubs taking part. The automobiles compete mainly under the regulations of the international FIA sporting code which means real racing. The motorbikes and sidecars however run in regularity trials according to the national rules of the German Motor Sports Association, the DMSB. Regularity trials are not about the fastest race times and therefore help preserve the historic material. Up to the 1970s combined meetings with cars and motorbikes were common in Germany. As a result of the increasing discussions about safety and tightening of safety regulations it became more and more difficult and expensive for organisers to arrange combined events. The "Oldtimer Festival" is the last big event of its kind with permission of the DMSB. Until 1982 the DAMC 05 organised on the Nürburgring a circuit race called ""Rundstreckenrennen um den Jan-Wellem-Pokal"". This race was held for modern and historical cars. In 1983 during the reconstruction of the Grand-Prix-Circuit, the "Oldtimer Festival" was held on the "Nordschleife" of the Nürburgring solely for historic car, bikes and sidecars. In 1984 the "Oldtimer Festival" was part of the opening meetings for the new Grand-Prix-Circuit of the Nürburgring. The event was extended to a three day event. In 1990 the DAMC 05 together with the ADMV organised during the "Oldtimer Festival" the one and only heat of the German Democratic Republic's championships for formula easter cars and for Trabants in the FRG.