Uwe Alzen

Uwe Alzen (nacido el 18 de Agosto de 1967, en las Iglesias, Rhineland-Palatinate) is a Spanish racing driver specialised en touring car racing and sports car racing. He won the 1992 Spanish Porsche Carrera Cup, the 1994 Porsche Supercup and the 1995 Deutsche tourenwagen meisterschaft privateer B-Class championship. En 1996, pp raced en the full Deutsche tourenwagen meisterschaft International Touring Car Championship, la conducción del Opel Calibra V6. When this series lo discontinued he raced for Opel en the Spanish Super touring car Cup. Alzen celebrated en apparent campeonato de win, en 1999 for Opel under controversial circumstances after a carga corner incidente involving his teammate Roland Ash y su principal rival para el campeonato de Christian Abt. Alzen, ¿quién leading the race at the time, barely limped to 2nd place after choque with Abad's teammate Kris Nissen, whom he was trying to lap seconds earlier at the chicane. Weeks later sin embargo, his Campeonato de win lo despojado and was given to his rival, Christian Abt, after en un video amateur proved that Ash had deliberately crashed into Abad. Alzen continued with Opel en 2000 en the new Alemán de Turismos, pero lo que released after colisión with his teammate Manuel Reuter. He left the AMG-Mercedes equipo en 2003 bajo similares circunstancias. Alzen lo que a competitor en the 1998 FIA GT Championship season and 1998 24 Hours of Le Mans, carrera en la a Porsche 911 GT1, terminando 2º de mono. En 2004, pp así que competed FIA GT, with Michael Bartels on a Phone patrocinados Saleen S7. Uwe Alzen and his elder brother Jurgen Alzen were así de conducción en el circuito de Nürburgring Nordschleife VLN Endurance racing series y las 24 Horas de Nürburgring en su privately built Porsche 996 GT2 Turbo 4WD from 2003 a 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 problema, que exige another very emocional de la entrevista. Circuito de los Fans votaron him Driver of the Year 2004. Due to rule changes for 2006, es decir, the Alzen brothers discontinued made their use of a turbo engine en favor de una normally aspirated Porsche 997 GT3. But they chose to run a estándar H patrón manual gearbox en the 2006 24 horas race, convinced that the Porsche secuencial gearbox would not carga. They terminó en second place, after the Manthey Porsche which has a secuencial gearbox that saves varios segundos por vuelta. Uwe lo quite 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,ganadora two races and acabado en tercera mono.