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17.03.2021, 11:13
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17.03.2021, 11:24
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Very sad. RIP
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17.03.2021, 11:38
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She was female and a German.. a perfect foil for those old farts on Top Gear
RIP
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17.03.2021, 11:46
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Same age and cause as my late wife.
RIP
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17.03.2021, 11:49
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Oh my word, so sad. 
May she rest in peace and in memories of the car racing culture.
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17.03.2021, 12:35
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17.03.2021, 12:38
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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.
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17.03.2021, 12:49
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RIP Sabine. I didn't know about her..I love cars, too. She looked really sympa.
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17.03.2021, 12:54
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| | Re: Sabine Schmitz RIP | Quote: | |  | | | 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 | 
17.03.2021, 13:00
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| | Re: Sabine Schmitz RIP | Quote: | |  | | | 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. | | | | | She wasn't aware of the rain sometimes, just drove like in the dry https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ufzdL1JaEKM | 
17.03.2021, 13:00
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| | Re: Sabine Schmitz RIP | Quote: | |  | | | | | | | | What an amazing chick. Hope she's getting her adrenaline fix in heaven.
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17.03.2021, 15:38
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| | Re: Sabine Schmitz RIP | Quote: | |  | | | 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. | | | | | Sabine was an inspiration and proof that motorsport inspires devotion across all sexes.
The Nurburgring has truely lost it's Queen today.
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17.03.2021, 16:49
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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
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17.03.2021, 18:00
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| | Re: Sabine Schmitz RIP | Quote: | |  | | | | | | | | 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.
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17.03.2021, 18:04
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| | Re: Sabine Schmitz RIP | Quote: | |  | | | 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.
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17.03.2021, 18:32
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| | Re: Sabine Schmitz RIP | Quote: | |  | | | 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 | | | | | 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 | 
18.03.2021, 05:54
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| | Re: Sabine Schmitz RIP | Quote: | |  | | | 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. | | | | | 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...
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18.03.2021, 09:38
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18.03.2021, 09:52
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| | Re: Sabine Schmitz RIP | Quote: | |  | | | 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. | | | | | 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 | 
18.03.2021, 10:33
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| | Re: Sabine Schmitz RIP | Quote: | |  | | | 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 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.
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