VIDEO // MICHELE MOUTON - FIRST LADY OF MOTOR SPORT

Born in Grasse, France on June 23rd 1951, Michele Mouton is the only woman to win a round of the World Rally Championship and is arguably the most succesful female in the history of motor sport. Following her victory at the Rallye Sanremo in 1981, Mouton would go on to finish second overall in the 1982 WRC.

In 1985, Mouton became the first woman to win the Pikes Peak International Hill Climb, but subsequently quit rallying when the Group B category was banned in late 1986. With more than a decade of rally racing under her belt, Michele Mouton would leave the sport she loved in part because she had no interest in racing in the new, slower Group A catergory and also because she was eager to start a family. A dynamic personality both in and out of the car, the above video is a sort of tribute to Michele Mouton and her time behind the wheel of the famed Audi Quattro Sport S1 // [comment]