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We're going to start this week of course with sad news about Sabine Schmitz who died last week.

She was 51 so young. She'd been ill for a while I gather but not well that makes it any less sad

or happened. Complete, complete shock. I didn't even know that she had been unwell.

Yeah, it's difficult to say anything worthwhile, it hasn't already been said but the outpouring

from people of sheer respect, especially in a world dominated by men I suppose in motorsport,

she just was amazing. A clear talent behind the wheel. I mean, winning the 24-hour race at the

Nürburgring twice, still the only woman to have ever done that. I'm always smiling. I think every

single press picture you see of her and when you see her presenting on top gear and that was the

first time I saw her, like so many people. First time I saw her was 2004 in top gear when she

just destroyed clocks and by driving a transit van around the greenhouse.

Yeah, I mean, that's, I knew she'd been a little bit from working with it on top gear and

she was a remarkable person, just a force of nature, the sort of sheer ball of free-wheeling energy

that she brought to everything and consistently so as well. I mean, when we were doing top gear

even in the early days, I think the show was sort of predominantly about the three presenters and

occasionally other people would kind of come into our self-created world but it would usually be

for a specific thing and they wouldn't really leave a lasting effect and the one exception to that

was Sabine and when she did that piece coaching Jeremy around the Nürburgring,

it was pretty clear that she was something special and that she had this charisma on camera

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