Uwe Alzen

Uwe Alzen

Nationality	German
24 Hours of Le Mans career
Years	1998 - 1999, 2010
Teams	Porsche AG Manthey Racing BMW Motorsport
Best finish	2nd (1998)
Class wins	1 (1999)

Uwe Alzen (born 18 August 1967 in Kirchen, Rhineland-Palatinate) is a German racing driver specialised in touring car racing and sports car racing.

He won the 1992 Porsche Carrera Cup Deutschland, the 1994 Porsche Supercup and the 1995 Deutsche Tourenwagen Meisterschaft privateer B-Class championship.

In 1996 he raced in the full Deutsche Tourenwagen Meisterschaft International Touring Car Championship, driving an Opel Calibra V6. When this series was discontinued, he raced for Opel in the German Super Tourenwagen Cup. Alzen celebrated an apparent championship win in 1999 for Opel under controversial circumstances after a last corner incident involving his teammate Roland Asch and his main rival for the championship Christian Abt. Alzen, who was leading the race at the time, barely limped to 2nd place after crashing with Abt's teammate Kris Nissen, whom he was trying to lap seconds earlier at the chicane. Weeks later though, his Championship win was stripped and was given to his rival, Christian Abt, after an amateur video proved that Asch had deliberately crashed into Abt.

Alzen continued with Opel in 2000 in the new Deutsche Tourenwagen Masters, but was released after colliding with his teammate Manuel Reuter. He left the AMG-Mercedes team in 2003 under similar circumstances.

Alzen was also a competitor in the 1998 FIA GT Championship season and 1998 24 Hours of Le Mans race in a Porsche 911 GT1, finishing 2nd overall. In 2004 he also competed in FIA GT, with Michael Bartels on a Vitaphone-sponsored Saleen S7.

Uwe Alzen and his elder brother Jürgen Alzen were also driving at the Nürburgring Nordschleife VLN Endurance racing series and 24 Hours Nürburgring in their privately built Porsche 996 GT2 Turbo 4WD from 2003 to 2005. Uwe Alzen set the lap record there with this Turbo at 8:09, about 10 seconds faster than the factory cars of Opel and Audi from the DTM, as well as the BMW M3 V8 GTR of Schnitzer Motorsport. He also has beaten them for the pole positions, yet his car failed at the start of the 2005 wet race due to electronic problems, prompting another very emotional interview.

Nürburgring-Fans voted him Driver of the Year 2004.

Due to rule changes for 2006, also the Alzen brothers discontinued their use of a turbo engine in favor of a normally aspirated Porsche 997 GT3. But they chose to run a standard H pattern manual gearbox in the 2006 24h race, convinced that the Porsche sequential gearbox would not last. They finished in second place, after the Manthey Porsche which has a sequential gearbox that saves several seconds per lap. Uwe was quite upset with the disadvantages of having a manual gearbox during the post race press conference.

In 2008 Uwe alzen entered the Speedcar Internatianl Series,racing for Phoenix Racing,winning two races and finishing third overall.

In January 2012 Alzen is confirmed for a full season driving a BMW in the American Le Mans Series sharing a car with Jörg Müller.

Racing record

Complete 24 Hours of Le Mans results

Year	Team	Co-Drivers	Car	Class	Laps	Pos.	Class Pos.
1998	Porsche AG	Jörg Müller Bob Wollek	Porsche 911 GT1-98	GT1	350	2nd	2nd
1999	Manthey Racing	Patrick Huisman Luca Riccitelli	Porsche 911 GT3-R	GT	317	13th	1st
2010	BMW Motorsport	Jörg Müller Augusto Farfus	BMW M3 GT2	GT2	320	19th	6th

Complete Deutsche Tourenwagen Meisterschaft/Masters results

(key) (Races in bold indicate pole position) (Races in italics indicate fastest lap)

Year	Team	Car	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18	19	20	DC	Points
1993	Persson Motorsport	Mercedes 190E 2.5-16 Evo2	ZOL 1 Ret	ZOL 2 11	HOC 1 5	HOC 2 9	NÜR 1 Ret	NÜR 2 DNS	WUN 1 9	WUN 2 9	NÜR 1 23	NÜR 2 12	NOR 1 7	NOR 2 7	DIE 1 8	DIE 2 7	SIN 1	SIN 2	AVU 1 7	AVU 2 7	HOC 1 8	HOC 2 Ret	11th	40
1994	Persson Motorsport	Mercedes 190E Class 1	ZOL 1 11	ZOL 2 11	HOC 1 13	HOC 2 13	NÜR 1 11	NÜR 2 13	NÜR 1 13	NÜR 2 11	NOR 1 Ret	NOR 2 Ret	DIE 1 13	DIE 2 12	NÜR 1 14	NÜR 2 11	AVU 1 12	AVU 2 10	SIN 1 12	SIN 2 8	HOC 1 14	HOC 2 11	18th	4
1995	Persson Motorsport	Mercedes C-Class V6	HOC 1 11	HOC 2 Ret	AVU 1 Ret	AVU 2 12	NOR 1 15	NOR 2 Ret	DIE 1 Ret	DIE 2 Ret	NÜR 1 9	NÜR 2 8	SIN 1 12	SIN 2 9	HOC 1 3	HOC 2 2							14th	34
2000	OPC Team Holzer	Opel Astra V8 Coupé	HOC 1 Ret	HOC 2 DNS	OSC 1 Ret	OSC 2 9	NOR 1 8	NOR 2 6	SAC 1 Ret	SAC 2 Ret	NÜR 1 10	NÜR 2 13	OSC 1 1	OSC 2 4	NÜR 1 3	NÜR 2 6	HOC 1 1	HOC 2 1					6th	100
2001	Team Warsteiner AMG	AMG-Mercedes CLK-DTM	HOC QR 5	HOC CR 4	NÜR QR 7	NÜR CR 19	OSC QR 4	OSC CR 3	SAC QR 11	SAC CR Ret	NOR QR 2	NOR CR 1	LAU QR 1	LAU CR Ret	NÜR QR 2	NÜR CR 2	A1R QR 3	A1R CR 3	ZAN QR 7	ZAN CR 1	HOC QR 7	HOC CR 7	2nd	101
2002	HWA Team	AMG-Mercedes CLK-DTM	HOC QR 9	HOC CR 11	ZOL QR 8	ZOL CR 7	DON QR Ret	DON CR DNS	SAC QR 11	SAC CR 9	NOR QR 2	NOR CR 5	LAU QR 9	LAU CR Ret	NÜR QR 1	NÜR CR 1	A1R QR 5	A1R CR 4	ZAN QR 7	ZAN CR 17	HOC QR 8	HOC CR 3	6th	24

Complete International Touring Car Championship results

(key) (Races in bold indicate pole position) (Races in italics indicate fastest lap)

Year	Team	Car	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18	19	20	21	22	23	24	25	26	Pos	Points
1995	Persson Motorsport	Mercedes C-Class V6	MUG 1 14	MUG 2 9	HEL 1 NC	HEL 2 4	DON 1 7	DON 2 7	EST 1 13	EST 2 12	MAG 1 9	MAG 2 7																	12th	26
1996	Opel Team Zakspeed	Opel Calibra V6 4x4	HOC 1 8	HOC 2 6	NÜR 1 18	NÜR 2 4	EST 1 5	EST 2 2	HEL 1 13	HEL 2 Ret	NOR 1 2	NOR 2 2	DIE 1 11	DIE 2 10	SIL 1 13	SIL 2 Ret	NÜR 1 12	NÜR 2 6	MAG 1 4	MAG 2 13	MUG 1 7	MUG 2 3	HOC 1 3	HOC 2 Ret	INT 1 Ret	INT 2 DNS	SUZ 1 9	SUZ 2 12	8th	119

Partial Porsche Supercup results

(key) (Races in bold indicate pole position) (Races in italics indicate fastest lap)

Year	Team	Car	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	DC	Points
2003	Porsche AG	Porsche 996 GT3	ITA1	ESP	AUT	MON	GER1 12	FRA	GBR	GER2	HUN	ITA2	USA1	USA2	NC‡	0‡
2005	Konrad Motorsport	Porsche 997 GT3	ITA1	ESP	MON	GER1	USA1 14	USA2 4	FRA 2	GBR 4	GER2 6	HUN Ret	ITA2 20†	BEL 3	10th	87
2006	PZ Koblenz	Porsche 997 GT3	BHR 1	ITA1 Ret	GER1 7	ESP 4	MON 4	GBR 1	USA1 9	USA2 9	FRA 1	GER2 2	HUN 5	ITA2 1	2nd	166
2007	SPS Automotive	Porsche 997 GT3	BHR1 2	BHR2 1	ESP Ret	MON 4	FRA 1	GBR 6	GER 10	HUN 18	TUR 3	ITA 3	BEL 13		3rd	128
2008	SPS Automotive	Porsche 997 GT3	BHR1 8	BHR2 4	ESP1 10	TUR 4	MON 4	FRA 6	GBR	GER	HUN	ESP2	BEL	ITA	13th	67

† — Did not finish the race, but was classified as he completed over 90% of the race distance. ‡ — Not eligible for points.

External links

• Uwe Alzen
• Jürgen Alzen Motorsport
• Nürburgring Fan Site