Thought this looked pretty quick - driven by a Skoda Rally driver too

Damn I want my car now!! This trip is planned for autumn this year

I want to go there on my vacation with my car...

Doubt I can afford coilovers tho!

I want to go full-out on the track , already fixed the Octavia-brakes! =D

AWESOME, great car but surely not standard!

Hmm - Is it just me who's not overly impressed?

Sabine watserface can manage it in 10 minutes in a van, so I'd expect the VRS to be a tad quicker...

Time it from when he actually starts and crosses the line, 9mins something iirc

Sabine is a legend so would expect her to do a 10min lap in a scooter.

Fair enough - I fast forwarded much of it as the camera shake was giving me brain ache.

Sabine can show me how to do it any day of the week...

Fair enough - I fast forwarded much of it as the camera shake was giving me brain ache.

Sabine can show me how to do it any day of the week...

And she can show me how to drive the 'ring too...

BOOM BOOM!

Sorry - your username made Basil Brush pop into my head...

Hmm - Is it just me who's not overly impressed?

Sabine watserface can manage it in 10 minutes in a van, so I'd expect the VRS to be a tad quicker...

Aye a van but what a van wasn't it a suped up tranny

Also didn't they put a corvette in the front so that the air flow was better ? Not sure but apparently they sent the corvette out so the tranny was in the draft?

Edited 4 May, 201115 yr by seboni121

I thought she couldn't make 10 minutes in the van... but it was 8 minutes 30 for that diesel Jag that Clarkson had..

Ahhh, here we go: -

In December 2004, Schmitz gained recognition in the United Kingdom after appearing in the BBC television show Top Gear with presenter Jeremy Clarkson. After Clarkson (under her tuition) set a lap time of 9 minutes 59 seconds around the Nürburgring in a Jaguar S-Type diesel (Season 5, Episode 5), she castigated his best lap with the comment "I tell you something, I could do that lap time in a van". She did a lap in the Jaguar S-Type, and set a time of 9 minutes 12 seconds, beating him by 47 seconds. When trying to film Schmitz as she drove the S-Type, the film team couldn't keep up so they used Jaguar test driver Wolfgang Schubauer to drive the Jaguar S-Type R chase car,[4] which means that much of the lap shown on the episode was not the first lap where she set the 9 min. 12 sec. lap time.

Thus, in her second appearance on Top Gear, she actually drove a Ford Transit Diesel in an attempt to beat Clarkson's time set in the Jaguar S-Type diesel. Her final time with the Transit was 10 minutes and 8 seconds (Season 6, Episode 7). For this final lap the van was stripped and streamlined at the front with gaffer tape (Schmitz's belt, hubcaps, spare wheel, toolkit and Richard Hammond were removed) and a Dodge Viper was driven in front to help keep the "air clean" by providing a good slipstream to travel through.

Was a 2.2TDCI Transit Sport I think with 150bhp. Fairly quick but even still a vRS should do it in sub ten - which I think is the time to beat these days.

Apparently it was 10.08.49 with a Dodge Viper as a draft car

Time it from when he actually starts and crosses the line, 9mins something iirc

Sabine is a legend so would expect her to do a 10min lap in a scooter.

Yes that was a full lap, on public days the timings are from bridge to gantry as you cant do a full non stop lap, I'm guessing that was around a 9.10-9.20 bridge to gantry lap, which is pretty good, I'd be very happy with that!!