Sabine Schmitz dead: Top Gear star and German racing legend dies at 51 after cancer battle

After the sad passing of former Top Gear host, Sabine Schmitz, the team has confirmed they will honour her in a special tribute during the hit show. The German racer was known as the Queen of the Nurburgring and passed away after being diagnosed with cancer in 2017.

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Jessica Kiang At irregular intervals throughout Alba Sotorra’s stirring, sobering and vitally humane new documentary “The Return: Life after ISIS,” discreet titles appear to define the foreign terms that crop up. The small group of Western women in this Syrian detention camp are from all over — Canada, the U.S., the U.K., the Netherlands, Germany — and speak in differently accented, more or less fluent English.

Sabine Schmitz was a racing driver who was the first and, to date, only woman to win the famed 24 Hours Nürburgring race. She was also a star of TV’s “Top Gear.”Schmitz became known as the “Queen of the Nürburgring” for her familiarity with the 15.8-mile track in Western Germany.

Top Gear presenter and motor racing driver Sabine Schmitz has passed away aged 51. The German racing legend, who was known as the 'Queen of the Nürburgring' after becoming synonymous with the circuit, had previously revealed in 2017 that she had been diagnosed with cancer.

Sabine Schmitz, the former host of U.K. motoring show Top Gear and best known in the car racing world for being the only woman to win the German Nurburgring 24 Hours, a feat that earned her the title the "Queen of the Nurburgring," has died.

German racing driver Sabine Schmitz, who is best known as one of the presenters on the hit BBC show Top Gear, has tragically passed away at the age of 51.

Sabine Schmitz, the German racing driver who served as a presenter on BBC hit Top Gear, has died at the age of 51.

Naman Ramachandran “Top Gear” presenter and famed racing driver Sabine Schmitz has died following a battle with cancer. She was 51.Schmitz is best known for winning Germany’s Nurburgring Nordschleife, one of the toughest racing circuits in the world, in 1996 and 1997, the only woman to do so.

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