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W hen Top Gear presenter Sabine Schmitz again met Jeremy Clarkson, she scared him so much with his conduct, he refused a passenger with her German star said, writes Nick Gibbs.
Schmitz is the only one of the new range Top Gear has regularly worked with Clarkson outside the Stig, assuming it is the same race driver in the helmet They met in 2002 a documentary called Clarkson Meet the Neighbors in which she drove around famous German circuit, the Nürburgring.
It really pi ed, she told the Telegraph that he didn t say a word, and he was really upset with the team he had to go with me in the car he was scared as hell.
Schmitz said she prefers to work with Chris Evans Jeremy Clarkson Credit Andrew Matthews PA.
A near Clarkson, who recently said he was happy to have left Top Gear before it gets tired and boring Schmitz is teaching him the notoriously difficult circuit of the passenger seat of the BMW M5 super sedan I told Jeremy I can show you how it works, let me drive, but he said no and so I tried to teach her passenger seat, which was interesting.
Schmitz grew up in his parents' hotel near the track, and a feature for 2008 Top Gear, Richard Hammond she said she d been around the track from 14.000 to 15.000 times, many of those who drive a BMW M5 Ring Taxi for passengers willing to pay 225 euros for the pleasure she still runs a motorsport business and the hotel on the track in Rhineland-Palatinate, in western Germany.
Clarkson and Schmitz were reunited in 2007 for a segment in which Top Gear Clarkson was challenged to drive a diesel Jaguar Type S around the Nürburgring in less than 10 minutes, he did just under the tutelage seat passenger Schmitz.
If he was not impressed, I can beat that time in a van, she said on the screen a year later, it is almost time of course it boasts a follow-piece, again on Top Gear, driving a Ford Transit around the track and with a time of 10 minutes and eight seconds.
Schmitz is not big fan of Clarkson, and says she prefers his replacement Chris Evans funny Hey, easy, not a star, you can talk to Jeremy He was not like a star, you can talk to t.
Schmitz appear alongside Chris Evans, Matt LeBlanc, Eddie Jordan, Chris Harris and Rory Reid in the new series of Top Gear, which begins this Sunday, May 29 to 20 hours on BBC Two.
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