Claudia Hürtgen

Claudia Hürtgen
Claudia Hürtgen
Born	10 September 1971 (age 53); Aachen, Germany
Occupation	Auto 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 Deutsche Tourenwagen Challenge (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.

24 Hours of Le Mans results

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