More photos of the press conference can be found at The Race Site.David's off to the Netherlands for Acceleration 2014! David will attend the press conference on Thursday in Amsterdam to cover the event and music festival. "Celebrate the 80s & 90s with The Hoff" will be a music festival on Friday evening for Acceleration 2014 starting April 25 at Autodrómo do Algarve in Portimão, Portugal. The event will finish up on October 19 in the Netherlands at Circuit of Assen.Training and qualifications are held on Friday and Saturday, races on Saturday and Sunday. The music festival will be presented by David Hasselhoff and include a variety of famous international artists ending on Saturday with a line-up of popular DJs.The music festival offers a different twist to ACCELERATION. Friday evening, after the car and bike training, David Hasselhoff will present “Celebrate the ‘80s and ‘90s with The Hoffâ€. With artists like 2 Unlimited, Twenty 4 Seven, Turbo B/Snap!, DJ Sash!, Kim Wilde, Nik Kershaw, Samantha Fox, Rick Astley and the Vengaboys on stage, ACCELERATION guarantees a fantastic entertaining festival. Saturday will be concluded with a dance event with DJs like Showtek and Jacob van Hage as Resident DJ.Celebrate The 80s and 90s - Promotion Video from Thomas Borgvang on Vimeo.Check Acceleration 2014's website for ticket information.
| RACE DATE | COUNTRY | CIRCUIT | CONCERT DATE | TICKETS |
| April 04/05/06 | Portugal | Portimao | April 25 | Race/Concert over |
| May 02/03/04 | Spain | Navarra | May 2 | Race/Concert over |
| May 23/24/25 | Germany | Nürburgring | May 23 | Race/Concert over |
| June 06/07/08 | Italy | Monza * | June 6 | Buy Tickets - Italy |
| July 04/05/06 | Slovakia | Slovakiaring ** | July 4 | Buy Tickets - Slovakia |
| July 18/19/20 | Belgium | Zolder | July 18 | Buy Tickets - Belgium |
| August 22/23/24 | France | Paul Ricard | Aug. 22 | Buy Tickets - France |
| August 29/30/31 | Hungary | Hungaroring | Aug. 29 | Buy Tickets - Hungary |
| September 19/20/21 | Croatia | Grobnik **subject to FIAhomologation | Sept. 19 | Buy Tickets - Croatia |
| October 16/17/18 | Netherlands | Assen | Oct. 17 | Buy Tickets - Netherlands |
| Â *Â Â excluding European Stock 600 & 1000 | ||||
| Â ** Â excluding FA1 | ||||
Press ReleaseACCELERATION 2014 has been created by experienced racing professionals, both on and off the tarmac. The creator of ACCELERATON is Loek Bodelier, 125cc Grand Prix racer and Renault Mégane Cup driver, and now CEO of ACCELERATION 2014.Loek Bodelier: “ACCELERATION is an entire new way of looking at both racing and music. Especially in the way it’s presented to its fans. Never before has racing on both two and four wheels, in multiple appealing classes with talented drivers, been brought together in such a complete and thrilling event. This combination with many fantastic side activities and music will make ACCELERATION 2014 the perfect family event.â€The races will be held in five classes: three car and two bike classes. The car categories are FA1, MW-V6 Pickup and Legend SuperCup. Two bike classes will compete: European Stock 600 and European Stock 1000. All these classes will offer maximum excitement with spectacular racing. The nations teams having already confirmed their participation are Belgium (Azerti), Sweden (Performance), Germany (GU-Racing), China (Team China from Steven Lu and Jessica Lin), Netherlands (Provily Racing), Luxemburg (Linders Racing) and Spain (Moma Motorsport). Negotiations with other nations teams are well underway. Among them, Italy and Spain, with Pons.Below is a shorter version of the promo from Jennifer Catano.
Short YouTube clip of the press conference
Source: Acceleration 2014
Thanks to HoffArmy for finding the vimeo promo video