Uwe Alzen
Alzen in 2011
Nationality	German
Born	(1967-08-18)18 August 1967 (age 58) Kirchen,West Germany
Racing licence	FIA Gold(until 2022) FIA Silver(2023–)
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) is a Germanracing driver specialised intouring car racing andsports car racing.

Alzen won the 1992Porsche Carrera Cup Deutschland, the 1994Porsche Supercup and the 1995Deutsche Tourenwagen Meisterschaft privateerB-Class championship.

In 1996, Alzen raced in the fullDeutsche Tourenwagen MeisterschaftInternational Touring Car Championship, driving anOpel Calibra V6. When this series was discontinued, he raced forOpel in the GermanSuper Tourenwagen Cup. Alzen celebrated an apparent championship win in 1999 for Opel under controversial circumstances after a last corner incident involving his teammateRoland Asch and his main rival for the championshipChristian Abt. Alzen, who was leading the race at the time, barely limped to 2nd place after crashing with Abt's teammateKris 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 newDeutsche Tourenwagen Masters, but was released after colliding with his teammateManuel Reuter. He left theAMG-Mercedes team in 2003 under similar circumstances.

Alzen won the GT1 category of the1998 24 Hours of Daytona in a Rohr MotorsportPorsche 911 GT1 Evo.^[1]

Alzen was also a competitor in the1998 FIA GT Championship season and1998 24 Hours of Le Mans race in aPorsche 911 GT1, finishing 2nd overall. In 2004 he also competed in FIA GT, withMichael Bartels on a Vitaphone-sponsoredSaleen S7.

Alzen and his elder brotherJürgen were also driving at theNürburgringNordschleifeVLNEndurance racing series and24 Hours Nürburgring in their privately builtPorsche 996 GT2 Turbo 4WD from 2003 to 2005. Uwe Alzen set thelap record there with this Turbo at 8:09^{[permanent dead link]}, about 10 seconds faster than the factory cars ofOpel andAudi from the DTM, as well as theBMW M3 V8 GTR ofSchnitzer 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 AlzenDriver of the Year 2004.

Due to rule changes for 2006, the Alzen brothers discontinued their use of a turbo engine in favor of a normally aspiratedPorsche 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, Alzen entered the Speedcar International Series, racing for Phoenix Racing, winning two races and finishing third overall.

In January 2012, Alzen was confirmed for a full season driving a BMW in the American Le Mans Series sharing a car withJörg Müller.

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

(key) (Races inbold indicate pole position) (Races initalics indicate fastest lap)

(key) (Races inbold indicate pole position) (Races initalics indicate fastest lap)

(key) (Races inbold indicate pole position) (Races initalics indicate fastest lap)

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

‡ — Not eligible for points.

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