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What"s your first car memory?With my sisters on the backseat of my dad"s purple Ford Capri. He took the shortcut from Adenau to Nurburg on the Nordschleife. I can remember that I was really scared first time in my life!Who taught you to drive, in what and did you pass first time?My older sister taught me how to drive in my mum"s BMW 316i around the Nordschleife. I didn"t have a licence at that time, nobody really cared. On my 18th birthday, I got my licence without any problems. In fact, I tried to teach the driving instructor how to shift gears fasterTell us about your best carI love my Porsche GT3 RS 997, I used it as a "Ring tool to drive passengers around the N rburgring. It failed only once in five years.Tell us about your worst carNo comment just that it was British!What"s your current daily car? A Ford Ranger Wildtrak in orange.What"s the car you most wish you"d owned?McLaren F1 or Porsche Carrera GT. The McLaren because it was designed by Gordon Murray, and the Carrera GT because it looks great in matte black.What was the best drive of your life, and why was it so special?My second win of the 24h N rburgring in 1997. It was a hard-won fight. I went in and out the pits nearly every lap to change wet tyres for slicks or the other way around. The fight was against Chris Nissen, a former Group C racer. He did the same with the pit stops, but when I was on slicks he changed to rain tyres. At the end, the sun was shining and I entered the pits for the very last stint on very hard wets. Chris Nissen went out on slicks and, in that lap, it started raining again, very heavily. That really made my dayWhat"s your favourite road?The one without traffic!What"s the biggest mistake you"ve made in a car?Too late on brakes, several timesWhat"s your favourite sitcom? I don"t watch much TV, but when I was young I watched Married With Children quite a lot. In Germany it was called Eine schrecklich nette Familie.
Date written: 5 Apr 2016
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What"s your first car memory?With my sisters on the backseat of my dad"s purple Ford Capri. He took the shortcut from Adenau to Nurburg on the Nordschleife. I can remember that I was really scared first time in my life!Who taught you to drive, in what and did you pass first time?My older sister taught me how to drive in my mum"s BMW 316i around the Nordschleife. I didn"t have a licence at that time, nobody really cared. On my 18th birthday, I got my licence without any problems. In fact, I tried to teach the driving instructor how to shift gears fasterTell us about your best carI love my Porsche GT3 RS 997, I used it as a "Ring tool to drive passengers around the N rburgring. It failed only once in five years.Tell us about your worst carNo comment just that it was British!What"s your current daily car? A Ford Ranger Wildtrak in orange.What"s the car you most wish you"d owned?McLaren F1 or Porsche Carrera GT. The McLaren because it was designed by Gordon Murray, and the Carrera GT because it looks great in matte black.What was the best drive of your life, and why was it so special?My second win of the 24h N rburgring in 1997. It was a hard-won fight. I went in and out the pits nearly every lap to change wet tyres for slicks or the other way around. The fight was against Chris Nissen, a former Group C racer. He did the same with the pit stops, but when I was on slicks he changed to rain tyres. At the end, the sun was shining and I entered the pits for the very last stint on very hard wets. Chris Nissen went out on slicks and, in that lap, it started raining again, very heavily. That really made my dayWhat"s your favourite road?The one without traffic!What"s the biggest mistake you"ve made in a car?Too late on brakes, several timesWhat"s your favourite sitcom? I don"t watch much TV, but when I was young I watched Married With Children quite a lot. In Germany it was called Eine schrecklich nette Familie.
Date written: 5 Apr 2016
More of this article on the Top gear website
ID: 2837
