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 live long in most people's memories.

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 ...

I’m pretty sure nearly everyone who reads this site is at least aware of that Top Gear episode where a very fast German woman drove a diesel Ford Transit van around the legendary Nürburgring.

Schmitz has driven just about every conceivable vehicle at the 'Ring, most famously a beat-up Ford Transit panel van. She had laughed at the 'Ring time that British journalist Jeremy Clarkson set ...

Sabine Schmitz, Queen of the ... Top Gear decided to see if Schmitz could actually run a sub-10 lap in a van, so the show supplied her with a diesel Ford Transit and let her get to work.

Sabine Schmitz was known as the Queen of the Nordschleife ... Schmitz set a track lap record, 8:16 in a Ford Sierra RS ... but I am fast,” Schmitz told Hammond in the Transit van ...

Racing driver and 'Top Gear' presenter Sabine Schmitz has died of cancer at the age of 51. ... Schmitz drove a Ford Transit van around the track in another attempt to beat Clarkson’s S-Type time.

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 live long in most people's ...

Following Sabine Schmitz's early passing ... looking back to her Ford Transit Van record attempt, some voices have suggested that Ford should build a performance version of the new Transit ...

Top Gear star Sabine Schmitz has been remembered as “powerful and irrepressible” and “a proper driving legend” after her death at the age of 51. The German driver, known as the Queen of ...

Sabine Schmitz, racing driver and TV host, has died of cancer in Germany at the age of 51. ... of the 'Ring… in a Ford Transit van: It was the first of many Top Gear appearances, ...