Sabine Schmitz a professional motor racing driver for BMW was born in 14 May 1969, now known for driving the BMW "Ring taxi" around the Nürburgring race track as well as being a television personality. she was born to the local hotel and restaurant owning Schmitz family, Sabine and her two elder sisters grew up in the "Hotel am Tiergarten" in Nürburg within the Nürburgring Nordschleife. she trained as Hotelfachfrau and Sommelière. she lived in Pulheim During her marriage to a hotelier, but after her divorce in 2000, up until 2003, she owned a bar-restaurant in Nürburg named the Fuchsröhre (Foxhole) after a track section. In 2004 she was qualified as a helicopter pilot. Following occasional drives with the family car on the Nordschleife, all three sisters started racing, but only Sabine continued and collected victories. Sabine won in CHC and VLN race events, the VLN endurance racing championship in 1998, and she is the first woman to win a major 24h race, the 24 Hours Nürburgring, in 1996 and 1997, all with a BMW M3 entered and co-driven by local veteran Johannes Scheid. In 2006 Sabine and Klaus Abbelen drove the #97 Porsche 997 in the Nürburgring VLN endurance racing series, entered by Land Motorsport. They finished a strong third in the 24h 2008, beaten only by the factory-backed Manthey-entered winners of 2007 and 2006. Sabine came to mass public attention driving one of the two BMW M5 "Ring taxi" around the 20.8 km long race track in an entertaining manner.
According to her own estimates, Sabine has gone around the track more than 20,000 times, increasing by approximately 1200 per year. Her familiarity with the circuit earned her the nicknames "Queen of the Nürburgring" and "the fastest taxi driver in the world". She says her favourite parts of the track are Schwedenkreuz and Fuchsröhre.
Claudia Hürtgen is her main rival, winning the championship in 2006, and scoring pole and victory in the third VLN race of 2008, with a BMW Z4.
Her company, Nürburgring-based Sabine Schmitz Motorsport, offers advanced driver training and a "Ring Taxi" service for passengers.
According to her own estimates, Sabine has gone around the track more than 20,000 times, increasing by approximately 1200 per year. Her familiarity with the circuit earned her the nicknames "Queen of the Nürburgring" and "the fastest taxi driver in the world". She says her favourite parts of the track are Schwedenkreuz and Fuchsröhre.
Claudia Hürtgen is her main rival, winning the championship in 2006, and scoring pole and victory in the third VLN race of 2008, with a BMW Z4.
Her company, Nürburgring-based Sabine Schmitz Motorsport, offers advanced driver training and a "Ring Taxi" service for passengers.
As a result of her popularity as "the fastest taxi driver in the world", Sabine became an occasional motorsport guest commentator, known for her gleefully dry descriptions of driving incidents. Since September 2006, Sabine has co-hosted a motoring show on German television, D Motor on the DMAX TV channel. In each show, Sabine takes on another challenge, for example Sabine in a Ferrari 360 vs. a 1200hp Race Truck, or Sabine in a Formula Renault race car vs. a race sidecar.
In December 2004, Schmitz gained recognition in the United Kingdom after appearing in the BBC television show Top Gear with presenter Jeremy Clarkson. On her only attempt, using the same car, she beat his best lap time of 9 minutes 59 seconds in a Jaguar S-Type diesel by 47 seconds, having castigated his best lap with the comment "I tell you something, I could do that lap time in a van".
Thus, in her second appearance on Top Gear, she actually drove a Ford Transit in an attempt to beat Clarkson's time set in the Jaguar S-Type diesel. Her final time with the Transit stripped (hub caps, spare tyre, toolkit and Richard Hammond removed, and they also drove a Dodge Viper in front to help slipstream or draft the aerodynamically challenged van) was 10 minutes and 8 seconds. When trying to film Schmitz, the team couldn't keep up so they used Jaguar test driver Wolfgang Schubauer to drive the Jaguar S-Type R chase car.
Her third appearance was at the 2005 Top Gear Awards to collect the award for 'Best German'.
In 2007, she appeared in Clarkson's Supercar Showdown DVD where she raced an Audi R8 against The Stig in a Porsche 911 GT3.
Schmitz also appeared in the sixth episode of the Top Gear's 11th series, in a competition between the German motoring show she co-presents, and the British Top Gear team. Both groups engaged each other in a series of challenges, in which Schmitz raced the Top Gear team in a double decker car race, and Clarkson in a one-on-one Mini challenge. She was victorious in both her events, however due to the timely intervention of The Stig the overall result was a win for the Top Gear.......
In December 2004, Schmitz gained recognition in the United Kingdom after appearing in the BBC television show Top Gear with presenter Jeremy Clarkson. On her only attempt, using the same car, she beat his best lap time of 9 minutes 59 seconds in a Jaguar S-Type diesel by 47 seconds, having castigated his best lap with the comment "I tell you something, I could do that lap time in a van".
Thus, in her second appearance on Top Gear, she actually drove a Ford Transit in an attempt to beat Clarkson's time set in the Jaguar S-Type diesel. Her final time with the Transit stripped (hub caps, spare tyre, toolkit and Richard Hammond removed, and they also drove a Dodge Viper in front to help slipstream or draft the aerodynamically challenged van) was 10 minutes and 8 seconds. When trying to film Schmitz, the team couldn't keep up so they used Jaguar test driver Wolfgang Schubauer to drive the Jaguar S-Type R chase car.
Her third appearance was at the 2005 Top Gear Awards to collect the award for 'Best German'.
In 2007, she appeared in Clarkson's Supercar Showdown DVD where she raced an Audi R8 against The Stig in a Porsche 911 GT3.
Schmitz also appeared in the sixth episode of the Top Gear's 11th series, in a competition between the German motoring show she co-presents, and the British Top Gear team. Both groups engaged each other in a series of challenges, in which Schmitz raced the Top Gear team in a double decker car race, and Clarkson in a one-on-one Mini challenge. She was victorious in both her events, however due to the timely intervention of The Stig the overall result was a win for the Top Gear.......
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