Claudia Hürtgen

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.

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. 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.

Racing record

24 Hours of Nürburgring results Year Team Co-Drivers Car Class Laps 1990 Dirk Ehlebracht Michael Schmölders Ingrid Steger Ford Fiesta XR2i Class 4 28 DNF DNF 1991 S&P Scharpmann Ford Kuhn Michael Funke Jenny van Hilten Thomas Wirtz Ford Fiesta XR2i Class 4 115 52nd 7th Franz-Josef Bröhling Jr. Jens Scheefeldt Achim Stegmüller 114 54th 8th 1992 Wolf Racing Karl-Heinz Hufstadt Bernd Ostmann Arno Wester Ford Sierra Cosworth 4x4 Class 7 53 138th 7th 1995 Wolf Racing Olaf Lübke Thomas Voigt Manfred Zimmermann Ford Escort RS2000 Class 4 114 24th 5th 1999 Carlsson Racing Florence Duez Jutta Kleinschmidt Ellen Lohr Mercedes-Benz SLK Si2 131 7th 1st 2000 Ford Wolf Racing Michael Funke Thomas Klenke Ford Focus A3 22 152nd 26th 2001 Sakura 2000 Jo Albig Ingvar Carlsson Ellen Lohr Honda S2000 A3 132 9th 1st 2003 BMW Motorsport Marc Duez Jörg Müller Dirk Müller BMW M3 GTR E1 126 DNF DNF 2004 Scuderia Augustusburg Brühl e.V. im ADAC Oliver Kainz Mario Merten Johannes Scheid BMW M3 GTRS A7 36 DNF DNF Ralph Bohnhorst Torsten Schubert Thomas Winkelhock BMW Z3 M Coupé A6 106 99th 13th 2005 Motopark Oschersleben Thed Björk Richard Göransson Torsten Schubert BMW 320i A3 123 15th 2nd Ralph Bohnhorst Marc Hennerici Torsten Schubert 126 11th 1st 2006 Motorsport Arena Oschersleben Marc Hennerici Torsten Schubert Johannes Stuck BMW 120d S1 138 5th 1st Reinhard Huber Guido Thierfelder Jochen Übler 24 DNF DNF 2007 Motorsport Arena Oschersleben Richard Göransson Hans-Joachim Stuck Johannes Stuck BMW Z4 M Coupé SP6 106 5th 1st 2008 Motorsport Arena Oschersleben Richard Göransson Stian Sørlie Jörg Viebahn BMW Z4 M Coupé SP6 53 DNF DNF 2009 Motorsport Arena Oschersleben Augusto Farfus Dirk Müller Stian Sørlie BMW Z4 M Coupé SP6 38 DNF DNF 2010 Schubert Motorsport Richard Göransson Stian Sørlie Jörg Viebahn BMW Z4 GT3 SP9 12 DNF DNF 2011 Need for Speed Team Schubert Tom Coronel Marco Hartung Jörg Viebahn BMW Z4 GT3 SP9 114 DNF DNF Fredrik Larsson Tommy Milner Edward Sandström 61 DNF DNF 2012 BMW Team Schubert Dirk Adorf Nico Bastian Dominik Schwager BMW Z4 GT3 SP9 150 8th 8th 2013 BMW Team Schubert Uwe Alzen Augusto Farfus Dirk Müller BMW Z4 GT3 SP9 8 DNF DNF Dirk Adorf Jens Klingmann Martin Tomczyk 87 6th 6th 2014 BMW Team Schubert Dominik Baumann Jens Klingmann Martin Tomczyk BMW Z4 GT3 SP9 157 6th 6th 2015 BMW Sports Trophy Team Schubert Dominik Baumann Jens Klingmann Martin Tomczyk BMW Z4 GT3 SP9 23 DNF DNF 2019 Hofor Racing by Bonk Motorsport Michael Fischer Thomas Jäger Michael Schrey BMW M4 GT4 SP10 142 24th 2nd 2020 Hofor Racing by Bonk Motorsport Michael Fischer Michael Schrey Sebastian von Gartzen BMW M4 GT4 SP10 76 26th 1st

24 Hours of Le Mans results Year Team Co-Drivers Car Class Laps 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

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 2011 Need for Speed Team Schubert Edward Sandström Dirk Werner BMW Z4 GT3 GT3Pro 543 2nd 2nd

Complete Extreme E results (key) Year Team Car 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 Points 2021 Abt Cupra XE Spark ODYSSEY 21 DESQ DESR OCEQ OCER ARCQ ARCR ISLQ ISLR JURQ JURR 13th 13