Uwe Alzen
- January 11, 2024
- Racing Automobile Driver
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Uwe Alzen Biography
| Birthday | Aug 18 |
| Birth Year | 1967 |
Uwe Alzen is one of the most popular and richest Racing Automobile Driver who was born on August 18, 1967 in Kirchen, Kirchen, Germany. Uwe Alzen (born 18 August 1967) is a German racing driver specialised in touring car racing and sports car racing.
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.
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.
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 Net Worth
| Net Worth | $5 Million |
| Source Of Income | Racing Automobile Driver |
| House | Living in own house. |
Uwe Alzen is one of the richest Racing Automobile Driver from Germany. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Uwe Alzen 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)
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.
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.
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Uwe Ranked on the list of most popular Racing Automobile Driver. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in Germany. Uwe Alzen celebrates birthday on August 18 of every year.
Top Facts about Uwe Alzen
- Uwe Alzen is a retired German racing driver.
- He was born on August 18, 1967 in Betzdorf, Germany.
- Alzen started his career in karting at the age of 14.
- He won the German Formula Ford Championship in 1988.
- Alzen competed in various touring car championships throughout his career.
- He won the Nürburgring 24 Hours race five times.
- Alzen also competed in endurance races such as Le Mans and Daytona.
- In total, he achieved over 100 victories during his racing career.
- Alzen retired from professional racing in 2015 but still competes occasionally.
- He currently runs a successful motorsport team with his brother Jürgen Alzen.