Women drivers - unbelievable!

From the title, I thought oh dear, what have we started here and went for the bait.
 
Quite a performance. I almost needed my brown corduroy trousers just to watch it !
 
Nice driving
 
No contest. That's like Usain Bolt competing in the school Dad's Race. Sabine (of Top Gear fame) is a very experienced professional driver up against a bunch of enthusiastic amateurs there (basically rich donkeys), she knows that Nurburgring track backwards, and has a very fast and well sorted car. She could go a lot quicker... :eek:
 
Impressive
 
If the silly bitch had bought a car with the steering wheel on the proper side she would have got there quicker :exit:
 
Bizarre - it's like the other drivers are all in electric trolleys.
 
LongLensPhotography said:
I wouldn't knock electric cars. http://edition.cnn.com/2017/05/15/m...r-nrburgring-lap-record-production/index.html
Hopefully it's not fake news in this example :)
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It's legit, electric cars are bluddy fast, though that record has since been beaten by a McLaren P1 (I think, it depends which particular record they're claiming). Interestingly, the car was only running about half its claimed 1400bhp maximum power or it would have run the batteries flat before the finish, or possibly overheated and turned itself into a molten blob.
 
ancient_mariner said:
It was more an observation on how she was apparently passing so many of the other cars on the straight with ease, when driving skills would make less difference than outright car performance.
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I bet you half of these drivers are only going at 80-90% to avoid some very nasty crashes, and most of them will be there only 1st or 2nd time. Knowing the track well does help. You wouldn't go flat out first time and just keep to the right watching for some faster cars from behind. That's just a sensible thing to do.
 
LongLensPhotography said:
I bet you half of these drivers are only going at 80-90% to avoid some very nasty crashes, and most of them will be there only 1st or 2nd time. Knowing the track well does help. You wouldn't go flat out first time and just keep to the right watching for some faster cars from behind. That's just a sensible thing to do.
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The premise of the video - Sabine Schmitz smashes the competition - is that this is a race, but apparently it's just a bunch of guys bimbling around because they don't know the track, driving inferior cars. Maybe she's not so great after all? Or perhaps it's just a stupid video?
 
ancient_mariner said:
The premise of the video - Sabine Schmitz smashes the competition - is that this is a race, but apparently it's just a bunch of guys bimbling around because they don't know the track, driving inferior cars. Maybe she's not so great after all? Or perhaps it's just a stupid video?
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She is going FLAT OUT, she knows that track better we know our back gardens and she is great at it. Happy? I just pointed out that many drivers will be first timers and take a slightly more cautious position so they will look slow. You don't want to crash with no insurance valid on the track and sky high fees for every meter of fence replacement.
 
LongLensPhotography said:
She is going FLAT OUT, she knows that track better we know our back gardens and she is great at it. Happy? I just pointed out that many drivers will be first timers and take a slightly more cautious position so they will look slow. You don't want to crash with no insurance valid on the track and sky high fees for every meter of fence replacement.
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It's a race not a track day. The cars being raced aren't the sort found in club racing. I wouldn't have thought there would have been many if any first time racers in that field.
 
ancient_mariner said:
The premise of the video - Sabine Schmitz smashes the competition - is that this is a race, but apparently it's just a bunch of guys bimbling around because they don't know the track, driving inferior cars. Maybe she's not so great after all? Or perhaps it's just a stupid video?
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I don't really know how to quantify "great", but she won the 24 Hours of Nurburgring in 1996 and 1997, so I guess she must be a pretty good driver. I think she has done over 20,000 laps of the Ring so far.
 
andy700 said:
I don't really know how to quantify "great", but she won the 24 Hours of Nurburgring in 1996 and 1997, so I guess she must be a pretty good driver. I think she has done over 20,000 laps of the Ring so far.
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She's a very good driver. Other Ring Taxi drivers are available and are as good (or better). The car control of these drivers is incredible. Yes they know the circuit very well, know the cars well, but you can feel the balance of the car towards the limit several times.
 
andy700 said:
I don't really know how to quantify "great", but she won the 24 Hours of Nurburgring in 1996 and 1997, so I guess she must be a pretty good driver. I think she has done over 20,000 laps of the Ring so far.
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I was just fed up with the premise and then the excuses. There's no doubt she's an excellent driver, but the video apparently doesn't demonstrate what it claims.
 
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