In a diesel Volkswagen van. As you can imagine, Silvester's Volkswagen Caddy is a far cry from the stock Ford Transit that Sabine Schmitz set a time of 10:12 on "Top Gear" back in 2005.

Schmitz famously took Richard Hammond for a 10-minute-12-second Green Hell ride along in a bone-stock Ford Transit during a 2005 episode of Top Gear, cementing her legacy as a local heroine of the ...

Sabine Schmitz, who has died from cancer aged 51, was a vivacious and highly successful racing driver with a fearless natural talent that saw her popularly dubbed, “The Queen of the Nurburgring.” ...

If you watch Top Gear, you may remember the late Sabine Schmitz drove a standard Ford Transit on the show and nearly got it under the 10-minute mark - Ford may want to bring her an homage by ...

Aged19, driving a Ford Sierra Cosworth, she set a new lap record of eight minutes and 16 seconds. Along with sisters Petra and Susanne, all three began racing as amateurs, but only Sabine went on ...

While Clarkson set a time of 10 minutes in a Jaguar Type-S, Sabine and Richard decided to attack the ring with an almost-stock Ford Transit Van. For reference, a BMW M2 Competition sets a time of ...

“The Ford Transit is one of the great motoring icons,” the special feature opens with. It is true, but the transit van isn’t exactly the first thing that comes to mind when you think about doing a lap ...

That Ford Transit van may be Schmitz’s most famous lap, but it certainly wasn’t her first. Schmitz was born in Germany and grew up inside the perimeter of the Nürburgring, the fearsome track ...

Sabine-Schmitz-Kurve honours the 'Queen of the Nürburgring,' one of the fastest and most high profile drivers to lap the circuit that was her home. Rob Margeit 09:35 22 June 2021 0 comments ...

Sabine clocked up over 33,000 laps of the Green Hell – including an infamously quick one in a Ford Transit and thousands more behind the wheel of an E60 BMW M5 ‘Ring Taxi’. She also became ...

Sabine began her Top Gear career in 2004 when she broke the 10-minute barrier around Nordschleife in a diesel Jaguar S-Type - before attempting the same in a Ford Transit in the following series.