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On 10/23/2009 at 10:31 PM, virensti said:
Nice one mate. Here's my favourite of them all. I think she's a goddess for the way she can drive around that amazing track!
Sabine Schmitz
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Sabine Schmitz
Sabine, in 2007.
Born 14 May 1969 (1969-05-14) (age 40)
Adenau, Germany
Other name(s) Sabine Reck
Occupation Racing driver,
Television personality
Official website
Sabine Schmitz (Sabine Reck while married; born 14 May 1969), 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.
Contents [hide]
1 Biography
1.1 Nürburgring
1.2 Television career
2 Race results
3 References
4 External links
4.1 Video footage
[edit] Biography
Born to the local hotel and restaurant owning Schmitz family, Sabine and her two elder sisters grew up in the "Hotel am Tiergarten" (in the basement of which is the Pistenklause restaurant) in Nürburg within the Nürburgring Nordschleife.[1]
Sabine trained as Hotelfachfrau and Sommelière. During her 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. In 2004[citation needed] she qualified as a helicopter pilot[2].
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 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.
[edit] Nürburgring
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 Fuchsrohre.[3]
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.
[edit] Television career
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 (Season 5, Episode 5), 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 van 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 (Season 6, Episode 7). 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[4].
Her third appearance was at the 2005 Top Gear Awards to collect the award for 'Best German' (Season 7, Episode 6).
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's main role came in the double decker car race. She and one of her co-presenters beat Jeremy Clarkson and his co-driver, Kiff, to win the event. The overall result was a win for the Top Gear team.
[edit] Race results
24 Hours Nürburgring: Overall winner in 1996 and 1997 (BMW), third in 2008 (Porsche)
Source : <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sabine_Schmitz" target="_blank">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sabine_Schmitz</a>
Well, RIP Sabine
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17 hours ago, Gummybr said:
Highly doubt it, check out below,
I dunno, it does say it's quoting his Sunday Times column....
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Proton parts aren't readily available since the agents no longer operate, but most running stuff like filters and stuff are ok. If you have contacts who can manage things in Malaysia however, it's a lot easier.
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On 11/24/2020 at 7:24 AM, PreseaLover said:
Very true. Totally agree.. But I'd rather eat junk/ drink/ Smoke do all the shit and die young. I believe in the peace of death. The more you live, the more pain it is. So YOLO for me
I have your same view, but unfortunately, if you don't actually die from that, you actually become a burden to others. So die or not, someone has to pay for those YOLO sins, either you, or your loved ones.
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I'm don't really have any youtube stuff, but my own results.
https://photos.app.goo.gl/Ni5AG6mUWrP7nvwH8And this attached pic is a somewhat adapted Gordan Ramsey recipe.
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That can't standard. A Wingroad with a SR20VE? I'd have gone nuts.
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On 10/27/2020 at 2:06 AM, fiat fan said:
P.S @Pericles cover photo is lit. ?
Thank you
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Interesting - Today at Suzuka they swapped the first two places, but the top 3 were the same. Autech 1, Calsonic 2, and Arta 3
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On 10/6/2020 at 7:38 PM, Hyaenidae said:
She's waiting for the engine to cool down
Got an interesting idea. As long as the car owner doesn't mind the smoke machine. Not sure I'd go with that barebulb flash like this, and I will put a colour gel on it, but definitely idea.
I'm sure I can get plenty of volunteers for assistants if I post the plan here, right?
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7 hours ago, fiat fan said:
Just a suggestion, why don’t you post the AL pics you’ve taken since back then!
Coz the old timers from when I started will tell you of modifest 2007 and the shaky hands pics of the ladies ?
This was pre-SLR days.
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6 hours ago, fiat fan said:
Instagram Handle is under my name. Add me guys. I post about cars alot as you may already imagine.
Reminds me, you can follow my photo page at https://www.instagram.com/preveen_rodrigo_photography
Better that than my personal page, which is transitioning into less fancy stuff
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10 hours ago, iRage said:
Well...Tesla has had a strong track record of over promising and under delivering. This is what they (he) said about the Model 3 (being 25,000-35,000) but then that thing costs about 45,000USD BASE (without any options/add-ons). Then there was the whole promise about the truck which was to be delivered in 2019, well its is 2020 and nothing of it. Then there was the whole home power system that was promised to be affordable....
Didn't Tesla announce a new battery that has a huge power and range jump than what they use right now ?
Tesla has such a lot of time relevant and futuristing ideas but seems to get lost in its own marketing stories. If they just stuck to the tech ideas and took away all the fancy stuff I think they would have had much better success in rolling al this out.
I think that battery improvement is the main takeaway from this article.
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13 hours ago, kmeeg said:
Very valid point. For me personally they don't have realistic range and charging options. (in addition to lack capability on rough terrain as of now).
If they build a capable vehicle with good electric range and have good infrastructure for charging for the same price as gas vehicles I'm more than happy to move to an quiet electric vehicle.
300km in a island this size? For a city runabout sized vehicle?
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Found a pic to share
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Interesting. Little bit of Crystal Ball Gazing, but if things happen as predicted, interesting.
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Well, that was a trip down memory lane.
As far as my ugly mug, I prefer being on the other end of the camera, so...
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Set your reminders on ??
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Why post on an automotive forum? First car is mentioned. And quite a nice pick it is too.
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On 9/4/2020 at 10:51 AM, iRage said:
The release date is not yet known....the last time Nissan showed the Z prototype (for the previous model) it took about 18 months from showcasing the prototype to a production model. So journalists and industry people are speculating that it might take about 24 - 30 months for the production model to be out. Thus the 2022-2023 ish release date.
These are some of the renderings of the car by BestCar magazine after the Nissan promo video earlier this year teasing the upcoming Nissan lineup. Bestcar has been pretty spot on with most of their renderings in the past....either way it does look pretty good...They did a few different ones with different tail light arrangements...
Very reminiscent of the 180SX, that backside. Very old school.
Front lights, I'm not too sure about. You think they are trying to harken back to the round light models like the 240?
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Just now, Devinda_Z said:
Hey hey who sold his Nissan first ah @Pericles?? ?
Besides the point. I didn't say I enjoyed driving something else more, I still fanboi
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On 7/31/2020 at 7:45 PM, Devinda_Z said:
It's a good looking thing - still is but over the past decade since I sold it i've learned that i'm happier behind the wheel of something AWD & turbocharged, preferably with a flat four up front
Traitor. ?
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On 7/27/2020 at 3:23 PM, Grond said:
I have penchant for LOTR - so may be something from that universe.
With a name like Grond, yeah, I believe you.
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Buying a new smartphone
in The Lounge
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I'll agree on the Xiaomi/Redmi stuff. Used a Note 4, liked to enough that when I got a new one I went to the Note 7, and seeing how they are priced I'm likely to stick with the range. tho the Note 7 is still good enough for me. Still plays Real Racing 3 very smoothly, battery is still generally good enough to last the day, so unless there is a drastic upset with the company policy, I will stay with this range. (Or I win the lottery, which means I will promptly go for a Pixel.)
For history reference, I've had an LG (can't remember the model, Android Slider keyboard), Xperia Pro (have a thing for physical keyboard phones. just comforting), Google Nexus 4, One+1. and the Redmi Note 4 (Which I only replaced coz I dropped it, it was a decent phone even when I got the replacement)