Top Gear's Sabine Schmitz, 51, dies after three-year cancer battle: Racing world bids farewell to 'Queen of the Nurburgring' as Jeremy Clarkson mourns loss of 'such a sunny person'
The German driver known as the 'Queen of the Nurburgring' revealed last July that she had been suffering from 'an extremely persistent cancer' since 2017
She was well known to British audiences for her appearances on BBC's Top Gear
Schmitz rose to fame on her home track of the Nurburgring in western Germany
The track today mourned her as 'its most famous female racing driver'
Death was announced by Frikadelli Racing, team she founded with her husband

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