Uwe Alzen was third in Super Tourenwagen Cup in 1997 and 1998 and second in 1999 ; John Henederson was runner-up in the 2000 / 2001 Australian Super Touring Championship ; John Cleland was British Touring Car Champion in 1995 and finished third in 1992 and fourth in 1993 and 1994 ; Yvan Muller was sixth in the 1999 British Touring Car Championship and fourth in 2000 ; and Nicklas Karlsson was third in the 2002 Swedish Touring Car Championship.

Alzen, who was leading the race at the time, barely limped to 2nd place after crashing with Abt's teammate Kris Nissen, whom he was trying to lap seconds earlier at the chicane.

Alzen continued with Opel in 2000 in the new Deutsche Tourenwagen Masters, but was released after colliding with his teammate Manuel Reuter.

At the end of the 1999 and final STW season at the Nürburgring, Asch was accused by some of hitting an opponent intentionally to support his Opel teammate Uwe Alzen.

Alzen had celebrated immediately after the race, but the championship was given to Abt in November after video evidence was considered by the officials.

As the dukes then also ruled over the Lesser Polish lands east of the Biała River, settlements arose on both banks like Bielitz ( now Stare Bielsko ), Nickelsdorf ( Mikuszowice Śląskie ), Kamitz ( Kamienica ), Batzdorf ( Komorowice Śląskie ) and Kurzwald in the west as well as Kunzendorf ( Lipnik ), Alzen ( Hałcnów ) and Wilmesau in the east.

Starting in 2003, the turbo-charged Porsche 996 of Alzen set new records at the Nürburgring VLN endurance series ( see List of Nordschleife lap times ( racing )), with speeds reminding of the 935 era, despite it being also slowed down by minimum weight ( 1350 kg ) and limited boost.

Jürgen Alzen and his younger brother Uwe Alzen are driving also at the Nürburgring Nordschleife VLN Endurance racing series and 24 Hours Nürburgring, in their privately built Porsche 996 GT2 Turbo 4WD.

Uwe Alzen and his elder brother Jürgen Alzen were also driving at the Nürburgring Nordschleife VLN Endurance racing series and 24 Hours Nürburgring in their privately built Porsche 996 GT2 Turbo 4WD from 2003 to 2005.

Due to rule changes for 2006, also the Alzen brothers discontinued made their use of a turbo engine in favor of a normally aspirated Porsche 997 GT3.

He drove one race in both the FIA GT Championship and the American Le Mans Series of 2001 for his own Alzen Porsche team.

In January 2012 Alzen is confirmed for a full season driving a BMW in the American Le Mans Series sharing a car with Jörg Müller.

A Cayman prepared and run by privateers Jürgen and Uwe Alzen finished fourth overall ( of 220 entrants ) in the 2007 Nürburgring 24 Hour race, ahead of two flagship Porsche 997 GT3 RSR's, a 997 GT3 Cup, and a 996 GT3 Cup.

Jürgen Alzen ( born 26 November 1962 in Kirchen, Rhineland-Palatinate ) is a race car driver from Germany.

Alzen finished the 2003 race in 4th outright and 1st in Class B driving a Porsche 996 GT3 S Cup.

Uwe Alzen holds the lap record there at 8: 09, about 10 seconds faster than the factory cars of Opel and Audi from the DTM, as well as the BMW M3 V8 GTR of Schnitzer Motorsport.

Uwe Alzen ( born 18 August 1967 in Kirchen, Rhineland-Palatinate ) is a German racing driver specialised in touring car racing and sports car racing.

Alzen celebrated an apparent championship win in 1999 for Opel under controversial circumstances after a last corner incident involving his teammate Roland Asch and his main rival for the championship Christian Abt.

Uwe Alzen set the lap record there with this Turbo at 8: 09, about 10 seconds faster than the factory cars of Opel and Audi from the DTM, as well as the BMW M3 V8 GTR of Schnitzer Motorsport.

This desire, I went on, growing voluble as my conviction was aroused, had mounted at such a rate recently that I now found its realization necessary not only to my physical but also to my spiritual wellbeing.

It was certain now that Jess was in the house, but also, presumably, was Stacey Black.

But it also made him conspicuous to the enemy, if it was the enemy, and he hadn't been spotted already.

He was asking had it been she who left the love note in his sheets ( she also served as maid ) when he saw the Grafin followed by a stately blond girl approaching his table.

This was also a corpse -- a male, judging from the coral arm bands, the tribal scars still discernible on the maggoty face, the painted bone of the warrior caste which still pierced the septum of the rotting nose.

His superiors had also preached this, saying it was the way for eternal honor.

Charles, also fifteen, was tall and skinny, scraggly, with straight black hair like an Indian's and sharp brown eyes.

Although New Orleans was not to learn of it for a spell, she also was a sadist, a nymphomaniac and unobtrusively mad -- the perpetrator of some of the worst crimes against humanity ever committed on American soil.

There was also a dog, a dingo dog.

There was also a long wooden spear and a woomera, a spear-throwing device which gives the spear an enormous velocity and high accuracy.

There was also a boomerang, elaborately carved.

It was also subtly familiar, for it was the odor of the human body, but multiplied innumerable times because of the fact that the aborigines never bathed.

It was to provide a safe and spacious crossing for these caravans, and also to make a pleasance for the city, that Shah Abbas 2, in about 1657 built, of sun-baked brick, tile, and stone, the present bridge.

There was also a lesson, one that has served ever since to keep Americans, in their conflicts with one another, from turning from the ballot to the bullet.

Joseph Jastrow, the younger son of the distinguished rabbi, Marcus Jastrow, was a friendly, round-faced fellow with a little mustache, whose field was psychology, and who was also a punster and a jolly tease.

And just as `` Laurie '' Lawrence was first attracted to bright Jo March, who found him immature by her high standards, and then had to content himself with her younger sister Amy, so Joe Jastrow, who had also been writing Henrietta before he came to Johns Hopkins, had to content himself with her younger sister, pretty Rachel.

she also went to Washington and appealed to Senator George William Norris of Nebraska, the Fighting Liberal, from whose office a sympathetic but cautious harrumphing was heard.

The Indians who came aboard ship to collect the mail also interested her greatly, even if she was suitably shocked, according to the customs of the society in which she had been reared, to find them `` naked, except a piece of cotton cloth wrapped around their middle ''.

He also disliked Runyon, for no good reason other than the fact that the Demon's talent was so marked as to put him well beyond the Hetman's say-so or his supervision.

It was won by Georges Bouton of the De Dion-Bouton Company, in a car he had constructed with Albert, the Comte de Dion, but as he was the only competitor to show up it is rather difficult to call it a race.

In its list of the top 25 game consoles of all time, IGN claimed that the main reason for the 5200's market failure was the technological superiority of its competitor, while other sources maintain that the two consoles are roughly equivalent in power.

However, Atari started to sue its competitor companies for releasing games to which it had exclusive-rights agreements and Emerson was left with thousands of manufactured games that could no longer be sold.

However, bmobile's main regional competitor, Digicel, was rejected for a license.

At the same time, Burroughs was very much a competitor.

BeOS was positioned as a multimedia platform which could be used by a substantial population of desktop users and a competitor to Mac OS and Microsoft Windows ( Linux was not relevant as a desktop OS at the time ).

Following the 1707 union of England and Scotland, and the 1801 creation of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, British foreign policy, on the continent, was to contain expansion by its competitor powers such as France and Spain.

The ColecoVision's main competitor was the arguably more advanced but less commercially successful Atari 5200.

The Arithmometer, invented in 1820 as a four-operation mechanical calculator, was released to production in 1851 as an adding machine and became the first commercially successful unit ; forty years later, by 1890, about 2, 500 arithmometers had been sold plus a few hundreds more from two arithmometer clone makers ( Burkhardt, Germany, 1878 and Layton, UK, 1883 ) and Felt and Tarrant, the only other competitor in true commercial production, had sold 100 comptometers.

" Rosen's priority was to have Compaq catchup as an E-commerce competitor, and he also moved to streamline operations and reduce the indecision that plagued the company.

Since 2000, with a struggling Gateway was taken over by eMachines, this left only Dell as Compaq's major competitor, however Dell became the number one supplier of PCs in 2001.

Masters ' Diving events are normally conducted in age-groups of 5 or 10 years, and attract competitors of a wide range of ages and experience ( many, indeed, are newcomers to the sport ); the oldest competitor in a Masters ' Diving Championship was Viola Krahn, who at the age of 101 was the first person in any sport, male or female, anywhere in the world, to compete in an age-group of 100 + years in a nationally organized competition.

This development outraged Austria-Hungary, who was Russia's chief competitor for influence in the Balkan region ( despite being an ally of the Russians and the Germans in the Three Emperors ' League ).

In a related advertisement, naturalist William Beebe was quoted as saying that the Britannica was " beyond comparison because there is no competitor.

In its first years, the Britannicas main competitor was the general encyclopaedia of Ephraim Chambers and, soon thereafter, Rees's Cyclopædia and Coleridge's Encyclopaedia Metropolitana.

The most notable competitor of the Britannica among CD / DVD-ROM digital encyclopaedias was Encarta, now discontinued, a modern, multimedia encyclopaedia that incorporated three print encyclopaedias: Funk & Wagnalls, Collier's and the New Merit Scholar.

The other important American competitor was the American Mutoscope & Biograph Company, which used a new camera designed by Dickson after he left the Edison company.

Eastman Kodak made celluloid film commercially available in 1889 ; Thomas Henry Blair, in 1891, was its first competitor.

The price quoted by Eiffel was FF. 965, 000, far below the nearest competitor and so he was given the job, although since his company was less experienced than his rivals the Portuguese authorities appointed a committee to report on Eiffel et Cie's suitability.