"..notice how much more speed she was carrying into the turns than most of the other cars."

Her knowledge of the course probably played heavily in that. In the Top Gear "van" episode she guesses she has 14-15,000 laps there. I also saw that she lived in Nurburg (mom had a hotel there) and met many of the big name drivers. She did her first laps at 17.

Yep, what a gal.