Jürgen Alzen (born 26 November 1962 in

Kirchen Kirchen (Sieg) is a town and Luftkurort (climatic spa) in the district of Altenkirchen (district), Altenkirchen in the north of Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany. It is situated on the river Sieg (river), Sieg, approx. 12 km southwest of Siegen. A ...

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) is a

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driver from

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. He drove one race in both the

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and the

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of 2001 for his own Alzen

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team. He has also raced in

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appearing in both the

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and 2003 Bathurst 24 Hour races held at the

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. 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 Uwe Alzen (born 18 August 1967) is a German racing driver specialised in touring car racing and sports car racing. Biography He won the 1992 Porsche Carrera Cup Deutschland, the 1994 Porsche Supercup and the 1995 Deutsche Tourenwagen Meistersch ...

were driving also at the

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''Nordschleife'' VLN Endurance racing series and

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, in 2003 to 2005 in their privately built

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. Per regulations the car was entered as "911 Turbo", which permitted all wheel drive and turbocharging, but little was left of the road car. The engine had more in common with the mid engine 911 GT1 variants. In the following years this topic off highly modified Porsches 'harassing the works effort' was kept up with a turbo variant of the 911 997 and later a privately build race version of the then new Cayman, equipped with the 997 GT3 race engine. The success of that car in particular resulted in dispute between Porsche and Alzen Motorsport (Porsche saw its new 997 GT3 works effort put into bad light), and lastly caused team Alzen to abandon the Porsche brand in favour of running a GT3 variant of the

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. Jürgen has won 29 Nürburgring Endurance Series(formerly VLN) races in his career, just one fewer than current record holder Olaf Manthey.

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1962 births Living people People from Kirchen German racing drivers Racing drivers from Rhineland-Palatinate International GT Open drivers Nürburgring 24 Hours drivers {{Germany-autoracing-bio-stub