Top Gear’s Sabine Schmitz, 51, dies after three-year cancer battle: Racing world mourns German champion who regularly competed against Jeremy Clarkson on the BBC show
Top Gear’s Sabine Schmitz has died aged 51 after a battle with cancer.
The German driver revealed last July that she had been suffering from ‘an extremely persistent cancer’ since 2017.
She was well known to British audiences for racing Jeremy Clarkson around the Nürburgring on the BBC’s famous motoring programme.
Ms Schmitz first appeared on Top Gear in 2004, where she tried to beat Clarkson’s Jaguar S-Type lap around her home track – in a Ford Transit van. She managed to get within 10 seconds of the sports car.
