Jürgen Alzen

Jürgen Alzen (born 26 November 1962 in Kirchen, Rhineland-Palatinate) is a race car driver from Germany.

He drove one race in both the FIA GT Championship and the American Le Mans Series of 2001 for his own Alzen Porsche team. He has also raced in Australia appearing in both the 2002 and 2003 Bathurst 24 Hour races held at the Mount Panorama Circuit. Alzen finished the 2003 race in 4th outright and 1st in Class B driving a Porsche 996 GT3 S Cup.

Jürgen Alzen and his younger brother Uwe Alzen are driving also at the Nürburgring Nordschleife VLN Endurance racing series and 24 Hours Nürburgring, in their privately built Porsche 996 GT2 Turbo 4WD. Jürgen holds the shared record of most overall wins with 28.

Uwe Alzen holds the lap record there 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.

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