Sabine Schmitz Now Has a Corner at the Nurburgring

Sabine Schmitz was no less than the face of the Nurburgring. When she passed away last month, it took less than two days for a campaign to name a corner in her honor to rise. Within 24 hours, that campaign counted more than 13,000 supporters. One month later, the Nurburgring itself has finally completed that honor, and the corner they chose is one of the most significant on the 14-mile Nordschleife.

The very first corner of the track, the first corner after the Grand Prix course meets the Nordschleife during endurance races that feature the full course, will be named the Sabine-Schmitz-Kurve. The sharp left-hander that heads downhill is the first dramatic corner on a track defined by them, meaning every lap of the Nordschliefe will begin in earnest on a corner named for the local driver that brought so much attention to the track, served as such a strong ambassador, and, over the past decade, helped fight to keep the circuit alive amid financial troubles.

While the corner is not one that Bridge to Gantry's Dale Lomas, another veteran of the famous Ring Taxi program that Schmitz was so famously a part of, mentioned back in May, it is one of the most significant and memorable points on the track without a formal name. It will not be a hard corner to find when it is officially re-named in September, ahead of a six hour VLN endurance race on the track later that day.

Via DriveTribe.

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