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Sabine Schmitz Having Fun In Her BMW M5 Queen of the Nürburgring Video CARJAM TV

Sabine Schmitz Having Fun In Her BMW M5 2010 - Nice interview with Sabine Schmitz tracing her background and how she got in to driving the ring taxi BMW M5

Carjam (A Car Show About People) likes that BMW have made a number of great little films around people and their cars but this one really gets across the passion of someone loving their job. Who wouldn't if you had Sabine's office to go to each day - a BMW M5. For those that might not know, Sabine Schmitz is a German former professional motor racing driver for BMW, now known for driving the BMW "Ring taxi" around the Nürburgring race track as well as being a television personality.
Sabine Schmitz age 49 is a German professional motor racing driver for BMW and Porsche, also known for driving the BMW Ring Taxi around the Nürburgring race track Sabine Schmitz has presented the BBC's motoring programme Top Gear since May 2016.

Born to the local hotel and restaurant owning Schmitz family, Sabine Schmitz and her two elder sisters grew up in the "Hotel am Tiergarten" in Nürburg within the Nürburgring Nordschleife.

Sabine Schmitz marriage to a hotelier she lived in Pulheim, but after her divorce in 2000, up until 2003, she owned a bar-restaurant in Nürburg named the Fuchsröhre (Foxhole) after a track section.
Following occasional drives with the family car on the Nordschleife, all three sisters started racing, but only Sabine continued and collected victories.
Sabine Schmitz came to fame driving one of the two BMW M5 Ring taxis in an entertaining manner.

According to her own estimates, Schmitz has gone around the track more than 20,000 times, increasing by approximately 1,200 per year. Sabine Schmitz familiarity with the circuit earned her the nicknames "Queen of the Nürburgring" and "the fastest taxi driver in the world". She says her favorite parts of the track are Schwedenkreuz ("Swedish Cross") and Fuchsröhre ("Fox Hole")
 

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added on 18 Nov. 2013

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