One season later, 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.Her first run with a ...

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 ...

Sabine Schmitz, widely known as the 'Queen of the Nurburgring', passed away on Wednesday. The 51-year-old had since 2017 been suffering with cancer, which she made public last year. Schmitz will ...

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 memories.

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, 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, ...

Following Sabine Schmitz's early passing this ... have even gone as far as proposing that the whole racetrack should be named after her. Also, looking back to her Ford Transit Van record ...

Admittedly, they used a modified VW T5 van, as opposed to a lightened but otherwise stock Ford Transit van used by Sabine, but the record still stands. The previous fastest time set by Sabine ...

drift Transit. I’ve had a thing for Transits punching above their weight ever since Sabine Schmitz promised Jeremy Clarkson that she could beat him around the ‘Ring in a van on Top Gear ...

But there is a less serious way to hold bragging rights at the Nordschleife. That is, of course, the van lap time record, popularized by the late, great Sabine Schmitz.Schmitz famously took ...

Sabine Schmitz dead: ... Sabine took a petrified Richard Hammond around the ring in a Ford Transit van, ... and the van could only manage 0-60mph in a gruelling 21 seconds.