Claudia Hürtgen

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Claudia Hürtgen
Claudia Hürtgen ADAC GT Masters - EuroSpeedway Lausitz 2012.jpg
Born (1971-09-10) 10 September 1971 (age 50)
OccupationAuto racing driver

Claudia Hürtgen (born 10 September 1971 in Aachen) is a German race driver. Along with Ellen Lohr and Sabine Schmitz, she is one of Germany's best known female racers.

Hürtgen started her career in karting and moved to German Formula Three. In 1993, during the F3 invitational race of the Monaco Grand Prix weekend, she suffered hand injuries in a roll-over crash, which ended her single-seater career.

She began racing again with touring cars in 1995, winning the Austrian championship, followed with sports car racing, in which she scored class wins, in an LMP-675 class car or a Porsche, in the American Le Mans Series as well as in the 24 Hours of Daytona and the 24 Hours of Le Mans.

In 2000, she returned to the site of her crash, to win the Monaco Historic Grand Prix in a Maserati.

Between 2003 and 2004, she was champion in Germany's (DTC), which was renamed DMSB-Produktionswagen-Meisterschaft (DPM).

In 2005, Team Schubert and Hürtgen moved on the VLN endurance racing series on the Nürburgring Nordschleife. Hürtgen won the VLN championship in 2005, making her the first female champion since Sabine Schmitz in 1998.

At the 2006 24 Hours Nürburgring, Hürtgen drove two cars for a total of 11 hours, scoring 5th place among 220 cars with a 245 bhp 120d.

2011 saw Hürtgen compete with Team Schubert (as Team Need for Speed) in the FIA GT3 European Championship and in various endurance races. She won the Dubai 24 Hour and finished 2nd overall at the Spa 24 Hours having started from 49th on the grid, in addition to her three podiums in the FIA GT3 season.

In 2021, Hürtgen is set to compete in Extreme E with ABT CUPRA XE alongside Mattias Ekström.[1]

Racing record[]

24 Hours of Le Mans results[]

Year Team Co-Drivers Car Class Laps Pos. Class
Pos.
1997 Switzerland GT Racing Team AG
Germany Roock Racing
United Kingdom John Robinson
United Kingdom Hugh Price
Porsche 911 GT2 GT2 280 13th 4th
1998 Germany Roock Racing France Michel Ligonnet
United Kingdom Robert Nearn
Porsche 911 GT2 GT2 285 17th 3rd
1999 Germany Roock Racing Germany André Ahrlé
Belgium Vincent Vosse
Porsche 911 GT2 GTS 290 20th 8th
2001 United States KnightHawk Racing
Germany Roock Racing International
United States Rick Fairbank
United States Chris Gleason
Lola B2K/40-Nissan LMP675 94 DNF DNF

Complete Extreme E results[]

(key)

Year Team Car 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 Pos. Points
2021 Abt Cupra XE Spark ODYSSEY 21 DES
Q

8
DES
R

7
OCE
Q

WD
OCE
R

WD
ARC
Q
ARC
R
ISL
Q
ISL
R
JUR
Q
JUR
R
13th 13

References[]

  1. ^ "Claudia Hürtgen completes ABT CUPRA XE driver line-up".

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Sporting positions
Preceded by ADAC Procar Series Champion
2003–2004
Succeeded by
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