The Queen of the Nurburgring dies aged 51
https://news.sky.com/story/sabine-sc...nvDh68ORK4L0Xg

Very sad. RIP

She was female and a German.. a perfect foil for those old farts on Top Gear

RIP

Same age and cause as my late wife.

RIP

Tom

Oh my word, so sad.
May she rest in peace and in memories of the car racing culture.

Sad to see such a brillant star to fade away so early. She was inspiration for Motorsports and made average man shy with her knowledge about the cars.

RIP Sabine. I didn't know about her..I love cars, too. She looked really sympa.

If you have not watched this, you should!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5KiC03_wVjc

She wasn't aware of the rain sometimes, just drove like in the dry https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ufzdL1JaEKM

What an amazing chick. Hope she's getting her adrenaline fix in heaven.

Sabine was an inspiration and proof that motorsport inspires devotion across all sexes.
The Nurburgring has truely lost it's Queen today.

Once my boys came home repeating some rubbish they heard from school - girls can’t drive! A YouTube video of the 10minutes-in-a-white-van Sabine and that was it. My boys’ re-education was complete.

Thank you Sabine for teaching my little rascals that girls can drive. Fast. . RIP

If I remember correctly, in one of the episodes before this one, she was guiding Jeremy Clarkson around Nurburgring in a Jaguar (?) and at one point she cursed at some slow drivers in front of her and said she can go faster than them "in a van".

So Top Gear put her in a van.

RIP Sabine.

Jeramy got a time 9 minutes 59 seconds in a Diesel Jag! I believe her speed when doing the Taxi runs were generally 8 Minutes 06 seconds in the BMW M5 to get some idea of how slow 10 minutes is.

German men are not the best drivers at times either, wrecking a new Ferrari in six hours

https://www.blick.ch/ausland/er-hatt...d16400761.html

No, I’m pretty sure it was Clarkson boasting about how fast he went in the diesel Jag and the camera caught her saying that compared to him. TG was completely scripted but I had the impression that might have been an exception... as they only came back to her the next year.

And in all honesty: they didn’t give her „a van“, but a pretty basic Ford transit. I think they were afraid that with the more powerful Sprinter (with 180 hp instead of 120...) or similar she might have actually pulled it off...

Yup! She could drive!
https://youtu.be/5KiC03_wVjc

Here is the Top Gear episode, Sabine got a time of 9 min 12 sec in the Jag so 47 seconds faster
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uzPIlFddagU

If they want another example of how women aren't worse drivers then men ill happily demonstrate my driving skills.

My driving instructor once said I was better going backwards than forwards.