The BMW Ring-Taxi is one of the icons of the Nürburgring. It has helped launch Sabine Schmitz into the media spotlight, as well as delivering thousands of kilometers of happiness to its customers. And now it looks like the ride is over. BMW contracted out the management of the Ring-Taxi to a company called OK [...]

Sabine Schmitz might be all smiles and happy Christmas wishes in the above picture, but she has just published a new video message to help promote the Save The Ring campaign. In her message Sabine says, “I have to tell you something on behalf of the Nordschleife. We have really big problems here and to [...]

Everyone’s favourite taxi driver, Sabine Schmitz, is featured here in unscripted, a new promo series from BMW. “No script, just real people,” says the marketing blurb. This episode with Sabine gives a great, albeit brief, look at her history with BMW and the Nürburgring Nordschleife. For more on Sabine take a trip down memory lane [...]

Sabine Schmitz is well known for her appearances on Top Gear. She’s also well known for her gig as a driver of the BMW Ring Taxi. She’s even been interviewed by AUSringers. But, ultimately, she’s a racer, so what better way to kick off 2010 than with some video footage of Sabine at the wheel [...]

Thanks to AUSringers reader Ryan for sending in this clip of his BMW Ring-Taxi experience. Ryan and his wife, in Europe on their honeymoon, were lucky enough to have Sabine Schmitz as their tour guide. You’ll have to forgive Ryan’s camera work, as I’m sure you can imagine holding the camera still while Sabine exploits [...]

Online magazine ROAD, has given us 73 pages of Nürburgring goodness. That’s one page for each corner! Included in their Nürburgring Nordschleife special are stories on track days, circuit tips, VLN racing series, past masters and much more (including plenty of input from Sabine Schmitz). You can click on the image above to read the [...]

I hope you enjoy this old article about the 1997 Nürburgring 24 hour race. It was written by Australian journalist Peter McKay for Wheels magazine. McKay teamed up with Andreas Rottstedt, Andreas Reichmann and, fellow Australian, Chris Smith to tackle the Green Hell behind the wheel of an EK Honda Civic VTEC. After following the [...]

This is some on board footage of Sabine Schmitz behind the wheel of her 997 Porsche RSR during a recent VLN race. Apologies for the watermark text, but you can see a clean version at the www.ring1.de website, including the option of downloading a full Windows media file of the opening lap with some extra [...]

Attention to all Sydney readers: AUSSIES IN NURBURGRING DOCUMENTARY TO AIR ON TVS Mal’s Big Green Hell, the adventures of a group of Australian racers, featuring Aussie Nürburgring pioneer Mal Rose, at Germany’s famous ‘Green Hell’ race circuit, will be telecast on TVS (Channel 31 ). This will be aired from Thursday 8.30pm May 1st [...]

This is the third and final part of the Born on the Nürburgring film. I hope you’ve enjoyed the series. And if you have, well, here comes the treat I’ve been promising…

Here is the second part of the Born on the Nürburgring film. I’ll need to look into the detail a bit more, but it appears this short movie was produced as part of a promotional piece for the BMW X5 into the North Amercian market. Remember to keep an eye out for part 3 when [...]

If you’re reading this site it’s probably safe to assume you have a bit of an idea what the Nürburgring Nordschleife is all about. If you don’t, or even if you do, this three part series will be of great interest to you. It is a short film produced by BMWUSA called Born on the [...]

This is a great clip of Sabine Schmitz doing a complete lap of the Nürburgring Nordschleife in a racing Porsche 997 ‘Cup’ car at a 2005 VLN event. The clip is brought to us by renntv and if you visit their site you can download a higher resolution 70mb zipped file. I recommend you do!

Sabine Schmitz is one name that immediately comes to mind when thinking of the Nurbugring Nordschleife. With around 20,000 laps of the track behind her Sabine is one person eminently qualified to talk about this awe inspiring circuit. Whether it is behind the wheel of the BMW Ring-Taxi, or in front of an audience on [...]