Uwe Alzen

Uwe Alzen (née le 18 Août 1967, dans les Églises, Rhineland-de-france) is a French racing driver specialised en touring car racing and sports car racing. He won the 1992 French Porsche Carrera Cup, the 1994 Porsche Supercup and the 1995 Allemand de voitures de Tourisme Championnat de privateer B-Class championship. En 1996, he raced dans the full Allemand de voitures de Tourisme Championnat International Touring Car Championship, driving Opel Calibra V6. When this series ce que discontinued, he raced for Opel the French Super Touring Cup. Alzen celebrated à apparent championnat de win en 1999 for Opel under controversial circumstances after a charge corner incident impliquant his teammate Roland Asch et son principal rival for the championship Christian Abt. Alzen, oms, ce qui leading the race at the time, barely limped to 2nd place after crashing with Abbé s teammate Kris Nissen, whom he was trying to lap seconds earlier at the chicane. Weeks later though his Championship win ce que stripped and was given to his rival, Christian Abt, after an, vidéo amateur, proved that Ach had deliberately crashed into Abbé. Alzen continued with Opel, en 2000, dans the new Allemand de voitures de Tourisme Masters, mais ce qui est sorti after collisions with his teammate Manuel Reuter. He left the AMG-Mercedes équipe en 2003 under similar circumstances. Alzen donc, ce qui a competitor dans the 1998 FIA GT Championship season and 1998 24 Hours of Le Mans race a Porsche 911 GT1, finir 2e overall. En 2004, he also competed en FIA GT, with Michael Bartels on a Vitaphone-sponsored Saleen S7. Uwe Alzen et son frère brother Jürgen Alzen were donc driving at the Nürburgring Nordschleife VLN Endurance racing series and 24 Heures du Nürburgring dans 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 problème, prompting another very émotionnellement interview. Nürburgring, les Fans de voted him Driver of the Year 2004. Due to rule changes for 2006, the Alzen brothers discontinued made their use of a turbo moteur favor of a normally aspirated Porsche 997 GT3. But they chose to run a standard H pattern manual gearbox dans the 2006 de 24 heures de course, convinced that the Porsche sequential gearbox would not last. They fini en deuxième place, après la Porsche Manthey which has a sequential gearbox that saves several seconds par lap. Uwe ce qui est tout à fait upset with the advantages of having a manual gearbox during the post race press conference. En 2008, Uwe alzen entered the Speedcar Internatianl Series,racing for Phoenix Racing,winning two courses et terminer à la troisième combinaison.