Claudia Hürtgen
German racing driver (born 1971)
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Claudia Dorothea Hürtgen (born 10 September 1971 in Aachen) is a German racing driver. A long-term BMW driver for Schubert, she won the VLN Series title in 2005, and five ADAC GT Masters races from 2012 to 2014. In 2011, she took the BMW Z4 GT3's first major win at the Dubai 24 Hour and finished second at the Spa 24 Hours.
| Claudia Hürtgen | |
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Hürtgen in 2012 | |
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| Born | Claudia Dorothea Hürtgen 10 September 1971 |
| Relatives | Elia Weiss (son) |
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Hürtgen previously had her single-seater career curtailed by a crash at Monaco, and became an LMP675 specialist in the American Le Mans Series. In 2021, she expanded to off-road racing in Extreme E.
Biography
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.
Hürtgen 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, Hürtgen returned to the site of her crash, to win the Monaco Historic Grand Prix in a Maserati.
Between 2003 and 2004, Hürtgen was champion in Germany's Deutsche Tourenwagen Challenge (DTC), later renamed to 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 fifth place among 220 cars with a 245 bhp BMW 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 second 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 was set to compete in Extreme E with ABT CUPRA XE alongside Mattias Ekström.[1] She only took part in the opening event, the 2021 Desert X-Prix.
Hürtgen won the Série A2 (open to pre-1961 front-engined Grand Prix cars) race of the 2022 Historic Grand Prix of Monaco, onboard a Ferrari 246.[2]
Racing record
24 Hours of Nürburgring results
| Year | Team | Co-Drivers | Car | Class | Laps | Pos. | Class Pos. |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1990 | Ford Fiesta XR2i | Class 4 | 28 | DNF | DNF | ||
| 1991 | Ford Fiesta XR2i | Class 4 | 115 | 52nd | 7th | ||
| 114 | 54th | 8th | |||||
| 1992 | Ford Sierra Cosworth 4x4 | Class 7 | 53 | 138th | 7th | ||
| 1995 | Ford Escort RS2000 | Class 4 | 114 | 24th | 5th | ||
| 1999 | Mercedes-Benz SLK | Si2 | 131 | 7th | 1st | ||
| 2000 | Ford Focus | A3 | 22 | 152nd | 26th | ||
| 2001 | Honda S2000 | A3 | 132 | 9th | 1st | ||
| 2003 | BMW M3 GTR | E1 | 126 | DNF | DNF | ||
| 2004 | BMW M3 GTRS | A7 | 36 | DNF | DNF | ||
| BMW Z3 M Coupé | A6 | 106 | 99th | 13th | |||
| 2005 | BMW 320i | A3 | 123 | 15th | 2nd | ||
| 126 | 11th | 1st | |||||
| 2006 | BMW 120d | S1 | 138 | 5th | 1st | ||
| 24 | DNF | DNF | |||||
| 2007 | BMW Z4 M Coupé | SP6 | 106 | 5th | 1st | ||
| 2008 | BMW Z4 M Coupé | SP6 | 53 | DNF | DNF | ||
| 2009 | BMW Z4 M Coupé | SP6 | 38 | DNF | DNF | ||
| 2010 | BMW Z4 GT3 | SP9 | 12 | DNF | DNF | ||
| 2011 | BMW Z4 GT3 | SP9 | 114 | DNF | DNF | ||
| 61 | DNF | DNF | |||||
| 2012 | BMW Z4 GT3 | SP9 | 150 | 8th | 8th | ||
| 2013 | BMW Z4 GT3 | SP9 | 8 | DNF | DNF | ||
| 87 | 6th | 6th | |||||
| 2014 | BMW Z4 GT3 | SP9 | 157 | 6th | 6th | ||
| 2015 | BMW Z4 GT3 | SP9 | 23 | DNF | DNF | ||
| 2019 | BMW M4 GT4 | SP10 | 142 | 24th | 2nd | ||
| 2020 | BMW M4 GT4 | SP10 | 76 | 26th | 1st |
24 Hours of Le Mans results
| Year | Team | Co-Drivers | Car | Class | Laps | Pos. | Class Pos. |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1997 | Porsche 911 GT2 | GT2 | 280 | 13th | 4th | ||
| 1998 | Porsche 911 GT2 | GT2 | 285 | 17th | 3rd | ||
| 1999 | Porsche 911 GT2 | GTS | 290 | 20th | 8th | ||
| 2001 | Lola B2K/40-Nissan | LMP675 | 94 | DNF | DNF |
Complete ADAC GT Masters results
(key) (Races in bold indicate pole position) (Races in italics indicate fastest lap)
† As Hürtgen was a guest driver, she was ineligible for championship points.
24 Hours of Spa results
| Year | Team | Co-Drivers | Car | Class | Laps | Pos. | Class Pos. |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2011 | BMW Z4 GT3 | GT3 Pro |
543 | 2nd | 2nd |
Complete Extreme E results
(key)