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.
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 VLNendurance 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.
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