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Remembering when Top Gear presenter Sabine Schmitz raced a Ford Transit around the Nürburgring – ABC News
As Queen of the Nürburgring, Sabine Schmitz completed an estimated 20,000 laps of motor sport’s most storied circuit, but her performance in a Ford Transit will…
Sabine Schmitz, who has died aged 51 after a long battle with cancer, was not just a popular presenter of the BBC’s Top Gear.
The “Queen of the Nürburgring” was first and foremost a phenomenal racer, most at home burning rubber and shredding egos around motor racing’s most ominous and storied circuit.
And it didn’t matter what vehicle she chose to race in either.
Schmitz was first introduced to mainstream British television audiences in 2004 as part of a Top Gear segment to celebrate the 40th anniversary…
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