MICHÈLE MOUTON: The Greatest Female Driver in History (FULL STORY)
This is a very special video for the incredible achievement of this channel reaching 100k subscribers, thank you very much!
The video contains all the career of Michèle Mouton, the black volcano (also nicknamed "La femme qui dérange"):
CHAPTERS:
0:00 Intro & Early years
3:04 Debut with Alpine A110
4:58 24h of Le Mans 1975
5:53 ERC with Porsche
6:24 Three years with FIAT
7:05 First year with Audi
9:06 Rally Sanremo 1981
12:31 WRC 1982
26:02 Last seasons with Audi
28:08 Pikes Peak 1985
30:08 Career ending with Peugeot
31:48 From 1987 to today
We will discover together all her victories with a particular focus on the World Rally Championship season 1982.
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Audi Quattro (Graham Robson's book)
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femalesinmotorsport.com
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motorsportmagazine.com
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Queen of Speed (Sky documentary)
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Recap WRC 1982 by Audi Sport
theguardian.com
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100.000!! Finally! This is for you, guys 😃 I hope you like the video, if you would like to see other rally stories or other drivers' careers just leave a comment here (Michèle was highly requested by you last year). I'll do my best. For now, I have some people that requested Loeb or Biasion. Don't forget to visit Jackoh's channel. Share the video with your friends if you like it! See you soon
Michelle Mouton is actually a Michael Mouton? She is a transgendered female. Michelle was born a male.
Great work
Excellent video about a great driver. Well done & congratulations!
Peter Solberg rally story please if you can give it to us
@@Rogerjatsu what about WRC 2008 Story?
My two daughters just yesterday asked if there had any successful Women F1 drivers. I told them I thought there had been only 1 woman to drive in a F1 race but that one of the best rally drivers of all time was a woman and I had seen her drive in the NZ rally. Tomorrow I'll get them to watch this biography. Thank you.
I think there has been 3 woman F1 drivers. Only one managed to score points though, and that was at an unofficial race. The drivers are out there, but the combination of talent, selfishness, financial backing, support, opportunity and a team prepared to take drivers on is a hard one to align. A few of the male drivers seem to be there for their modeling skills rather than being good drivers.
If Michele Mouton was racing today , she would be in a F1 car on the starting grid , right now ..... the drivers in F1 today couldn't touch her driving talent ..... she was a true race driver .... drivers today are computer game technicians .....
I agree she was the greatest female driver ever. But one of the greatest rally drivers ever with 4 career wins? Certainly not.
@@patpeterson2671 nonsense lol. she was good but there is a good reason women arent as good in topsport. michele was an exception a women you only see once in a few generations.but she would not beat max verstappen
@@ricardomeertens9165 You are a male chauvinist ...... females have never ever been given the same opportunities as men when it comes to motorsport ...... Amy Ruman , she is a two time Trans Am Champion in Trans Am racing ...... Shirley Cha Cha Muldowney / Shirley Muldowney (born June 19, 1940), also known professionally as "Cha Cha" and the "First Lady of Drag Racing", is an American auto racer. She was the first woman to receive a license from the National Hot Rod Association (NHRA) to drive a Top Fuel dragster. She won the NHRA Top Fuel championship in 1977, 1980, and 1982, becoming the first person to win two and three Top Fuel titles. .She won a total of 18 NHRA national events.and there are others ........... The women I just mentioned beat the best in their race series ..... Michele Mouton is the greatest driving female in history , period .....
_"If you have the balls you can try and race me back down as well."_ "That shut him up." SAVAGE
GOLD response
Signed der Schwarze Vulkan.
EMOTIONAL DAMAGE
What a take down. SAVAGE
yeah, what a prick
She wasn't a token addition, she nearly won the championship in one of the hardest motorsports ever devised! ....Bloody legend....
should off ???
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@@exsappermadman25055 ????????
@@jfc213 What the f?...Can you read?...
@@exsappermadman25055 you know what i meant so whats the problem ?? or are you the kind OF person who has nothing better to do but pick
The fact she could hold her own In group b Is worthy of respect. It takes a special person to control a group b car.
And Group B was deemed too dangerous and eventually shut down! Yikes. She had serious balls. No wonder she was called the black volcano...
without killing yourself or a spectator!
The cars and the courses were a terrifying combination. Some of the best drivers in rallying at the time lost their lives, and some of the best drivers would occasionally refuse to race due to safety concerns.
@@syncmonism I stopped watching when the S2 etc came out. It had become a sport for people who didn't believe in safety margins. For me Toivonen's sad demise was not a surprise.
@@oldunclemick I agree knowing the complete lack of safety from FIA about Group B's dangerous nature, it's bound to happen sooner or later. But they could improve the safety of it with crowd control and maybe also choose non-hill race track to better suited for the speed of Group B's cars before or after Henri's death, but no, they just outright banned it after years of ignoring the danger.
How’s this not a big screen movie? Thanks for your efforts bringing light to Michelle’s story. A chic that whipped the blokes good stuff.
Oh that’s be cool
She is both too "white" and "straight" for today's big movies 😂😂
I agree and was thinking the same... How is this not a movie yet?!?!
Because not enough people are into rally racing which is weird :/ .
I was just thinking that! Would be a good time for one of those trilling racing movies that tell a story. I cant even imagine the emotions she was going through when her father passed.
Probably the best and most complete video i've ever seen about Michele's life and career. Congratulations.
Mouton is never forgotten.
The documentary that Sky did on Michele is also on KZhead, it's called Queen of speed. Look it up, it's awesome
In kenya eldoret, we could not go to sleep, unless we saw michele
Group B cars were monsters. The fact she excelled at this form of racing places her in the best drivers ever PERIOD, not just the best woman
She was the ONLY woman, and she was a token. Stop simping.
@@Pepe_Silviashe's definitely an impressive driver no doubt but simps always ruin it. 5 career wins and no championships isn't anywhere near GOAT discussion, but still very good compared to the average rally competitor and amazing compared to the average person. Very impressive but doesn't disprove the reasons why motorsport is near exclusively dominated by men.
@Pepe_Silvia still had bigger balls than you boy
@@Pepe_Silvia bro's only mad cause he knows that if he ever got behind the wheel of a group B car he'd kill himself immediately. Anyone who had the guts to push to the limit and give Walter Rohl a run for his money is one of the greatest drivers of all time.
@@verro9153 Damn straight!
People love to bring up Danica Patrick but this lady is the goat and deserves more recognition.
Bringing Danica Patrick up in this video's comments is just wrong and a insult to Michele Mouton ............. Danica Patrick ...... what did she ever do , except crash and take other drivers out of races ..... Bubba Wallace is the modern day , Danica Patrick now with an ethnic twist .....
@@patpeterson2671 bubba " noose" wallace...SURE BUD
@@patpeterson2671 She would bitch slap Danica right out of the track. I bet if I put the two in the exact same kind of car and told them to do 40 laps at Magny Cours, Danica would crash in 2 or 3 laps and Michele would keep running to the very end.
Louise atkin walker is another successful rally driver. The simmonite sisters too.
@@johnmurray9526 Not on Michele's level I'm afraid..
And if you believe that age has calmed her tempers, you'd be wrong. I remember her being quite vocal about some things to local marshals back in '22 and '21 Rally Finland when she was still part of the FIA safety delegation. You know rallying is about to happen when you hear Mouton yelling.
That's just being French.
@@OOpSjm 😂
When Michele was in New Zealand in 1982, my friends and I were walking into the finish line of one of the North Island forestry roads (which are a mixture of gravel, sand, and clay) and were almost in time to see the leading cars. We were about 800m from the finish line when 2 Audi WRC cars came through (at touring speeds 😁) while we were in the middle of a cutting with about 1 and a half car widths of road surface, about 1mx1m dry(ish) drainage ditches on either side (which we were walking in), and high earthen walls on each side. We all got pelted with light gravel. It was the closest I got to Michele and is still memorable. At the end of the rally, when we returned our rental van, we found that the Audi service crew had used the same rental service and they left behind some Audi stickers on the windows of their rental caravans. I painstakingly peeled off (with the rental company's permission) one of their 300mm x 600mm Audi logo stickers which I still have to this day. (Edited to correct spelling mistakes 😁)
Woww...I guess that sticker worth something money can't buy...👌
I love this young lady and her story. I love her! And every time I watch a video about her, I truly hope that the end can change... she won, that's it. To me she won.
I have exactly the same feeling
Give her the Tarantino ending where she won!
Yes! I am French and Michèle Mouton was the greatest rally pilot at some point. She is a role-model for women willing to enter automobile sports. She was incredible. Michèle Mouton or Sabine Schmitz queen of the Nürburgring, they were unequalled.
Yes, it was a thrill to watch Group B on the Greek mountains in my 5yrs of life. My Father was with race paper on hand and we were waiting for the big names with the war cars. Mouton has a special place in our hearts, a true legend.❤🎉
Holy crap what an AMAZING woman!!! I was a German auto technician for almost 20 years. VW/Audi/Porsche, MB and BMW. It took some time, but I earned my respect in the industry. I had female and male customers ask for me to work on their vehicles specifically. That was rewarding and validating. I'm appreciative of my father showing me his passion as a mechanic and passing it along to me. I always loved the roar of the Audi 5 cylinder turbo. I got to work on one of those towards the end of my career. It was an S model. Amazing car. Maybe that's why I have a B5 S4 after all these years aka "money pit" Great story telling. Thank you
Not just the best female driver, one of the best Rally drivers ever. Everyone knows the Legend of the Quattro, but when talking about it they always leave out that Audi only won the Constructors Championship in '82 because of her.
Really? Was it not P.Röhrl ?
@@canerguener8664 W.Röhrl won the Drivers CP in an Opel against that Audi-Monster because she was not good enough to win in a superior car
Oh btw, and she lost the Constructors CP for Audi with her low performance against Lancia (with W.Röhrl).
@@Pepe_Silvia Great.Thank you very much. Röhrl was a true master.
@@Pepe_Silvia Lancia Stratos ?
I'm shocked there hasn't been a movie based on her story. Outside of her inspiring career, the aesthetics of both the 70s & 80s, then to add aesthetics of the places ralley drivers go & the opportunity for the audience to step into the scene of each pivotal, emotional moment... It would be refreshing if done right. The movie "Rush" is a great example, but this could arguably be even better in many ways for a movie.
At least there's the documentary though.
I love her story. She is such an inspiration, not only to aspiring female racing drivers but also more generally to racers from less financially solvent backgrounds. She is proof that if you've got the right stuff and believe in your capabilities then it is possible. Super charismatic too, far more than Rohrl.
Thank you so much. As a French woman, and grown with my father and older brother watching the Group B in 1982-85, Michele Mouton is kind of a cult, she is truly one of a kind.
Michele Mouton The Queen of rallying and The goddess of women. What she has done for motorsport is a outstanding achievement on it’s own and don’t ever forget what she done behind the wheel. Michele Mouton the champion 🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆 🫰🫰🫰🫰🫰🫰🫰 Great video and nicely put together 👍👍 Thank you for sharing 👏👏👏👏👏👏👏
So what? Others did much more. You people are giving her credit just because she is a woman, but to ask people to name at least ten legends of the world rally championship, she would never be named.
@@m1lst3r89 Well you don’t know much about motorsport history if you don’t know about Michele Mouton
@@tonydownunder5703 no, you are right, I don't know much about people who left very little trace in it, and she certainly did.
@@m1lst3r89weirdo why are you so mad people appreciate her
@@brdllc simps annoy me.
It really seems like there's something in the water in France, because the 2 women who I think could, in the future, challenge Michele for the crown of "greatest female racing driver" are also French (talking about Lilou Wadoux & Doriane Pin, who are both kicking ass in WEC this year). I wish more people knew of Michele, because she's an utter legend.
Not to take anything away from Michele's achievements, but she was following a long line of successful female rally drivers - Pat Moss, Rosemary Smith, Anne Hall, Ewy Rosqvist were all potential outright winners. It's just sad that since Michele there has been no-one to take up the challenge.
Jutta Kleinshmidt won in dakkar 2001
Got to google images and it's quite easy to see that Michele is a MAN posing as a woman.
Well, i argue that there has never been a pilot comparable to group B racers.
@@blar2112 It's not about the car.
@@thethirdman225 I would agree in most cases, but with group B, it's all about the car. Handling those monsters is just not comparable to anything. It's not just the power of those cars, also no downforce, shit brakes, shit tyres, watching the turbo pressure constanstly,turbo lag, endless stages, really bad power steering etc. Just handling the G-Forces in Corsica with 600+bhp would make you sick, then try 13hours straight!
29:54 this has to be one of the best comebacks in racing history.
Pure gold!, I've would pay to see the guy's face lol
Yeah, that was epic!!!
Gagged him!! Michele was ice cold.
I don't know why I'm crying but thank you
Congratulation on your 100.000 subscribers achievment. Well done! 🤜🤛
Greetings from Scotland! A superb, well documented history of one of the best drivers of all time, Male OR Female! Just by looking into her eyes you could tell, nobody had the determination and skill behind the wheel that she had! An absolute legend!
I have nothing but Total respect for Michele! Truly an amazing woman! ❤
Great job mate! Good video for the youngest to know some history of this sport. Congratulations for the 100K ✌😜
Gran bel video! Mounton la più grande di tutti i tempi, mitica! L'unica donna che ha guidato i veri mostri gruppo B! Mounton Pons mitica coppia che fatto la storia dei rally!
I knew about Pikes Peak, but I had no idea about La Mans! That's freaking awesome! Go girl! 🤘
WOW! I had no idea who she was. Great video. Great footage. Very cool. I love rally. The 80's and 90's are my favorite era. Thank you.
I wish grassroots rally racing was more popular in America. Michelle killed it 🤘 so jealous of her a110 and her Quattro, there is nothing like a boosted 5 cylinder. Great video 👌
Sprint Dirt Track Racing would be the closest thing DTR is more exciting than Nascar.
It's hilarious that her surname means 'Sheep' in French, because that's the one thing she CERTAINLY wasn't!! Best wishes from a French forest... This lady is a warrior. ⚔️🏆⚔️
Really? The irony of her surname is so perfect...
Maybe she's a wolf in sheep's clothing? :D
Black sheep haha
@@largol33t1 You have never heard of mutton? It's sheep meat.
She's the GOAT
IMO, Mouton will never be topped, by another female driver, ever. Winning in Group B, was arguably the hardest motorsport ever, and will never be topped
She's one of the best rally drivers in the history of the sport!
a true legend! I remember following the wrc in the early 80s and she was brilliant! in an era of such great drivers she truly earned a spot in the hall of rally champions.
As a former rally driver I would say - Michele is a very talent woman rally pilot. She feel car as a combat jet pilot... Absolutely unique.
Michèle Mouton a phenomenal woman, a lady driver, a true champion🤩! She was determined, smart and talented! How some of her male competitors were assholes searching other reasons but her talent to explain her victories. Never a man had to justify as a woman his victory. Merci pour ce magnifique reportage sur cette femme française phénoménale 🙏
What a spectacular little documentary!! I loved learning about Michele and her amazing achievements. Thank you very much for putting it together.
This was great! What a good story - I had no idea who she was until seeing this. Interesting that you described her monikers as "cold." Going to watch more on her now. The sound of those 5T''s = BEST.
She was nice looking but apparently she had an hairy arse 😂
Excellent! One of my driving heros!
This woman is an ABSOLUTE LEGEND.
When you're name is sheep but you are really the GOAT.
😂😂👍
underrated comment
Bravo Michèle, une véritable icône ici pour tous les français qui aiment le sport automobile . 🇫🇷
Fantastic video about amazing driver. Lot of people belittle her importance in rally history for one reason or another but the thing is and I have put this into perspective: those weren't cars, those were monsters on four wheels, bearly legal by any safety standards, and brutal killing machines in all their analog glory. And she overcame all of it.
GREAT story! Why hasn't anyone made a film on her?? Or has it been made??
Yes, there's an hour and a half documentary called "Queen Of Speed" it's a sky documentary so not sure if you can see it.
@@NathanMcCabe88 it's on youtube. Just watched it and it's awesome!
When international rallies were a true endurance test of man and machine. Not the sanitized and homogenized things they have become today. Much respect to a beautiful lady who showed a lot of men how to do it!
Rallies are still pretty fuckin nuts
Thank you. Loved to get the full story of this legendary driver!
This is amazing!!!!! I don't know why they haven't made a movie about Michèle Mouton yet
I can remember watching her rally as a kid, she was always thrilling to watch always on the edge and a very fiesty lady. Hats off to her she was arguably one of the best drivers at the time.
Mouton is my favorite rally driver of all time. In fact, I don't really have any other rally drivers I care about in particular. I watched her in her heyday, and as mentioned early in this video, watching her helped me become interested in rallying.
MM was in Barbados about 15 years ago to investigate having an ROC round there. Sadly it did not happen, but she had a great time hanging out with the local rally drivers.
This is fantastic, thank you. I've watched a few docs about Mouton but I learned much more from your video than any other.
this means lot to me, thanks you very much!
It was a lifetime privilege to have witnessed her talent at the prime of her career in an Audi, I am humbled.....
Thankyou for the vid... I'm really glad i've become acquainted with a such a talented racer.
Fantastic piece. Really well put together. Love the clean editing and sound design.
Bravo,superbe biographie de Michelle Mouton qui est passée tout prêt d'être Championne du Monde des Rallyes.
Thank you so much for making this video. As somebody who loves racing, she inspires me a lot. Well done 👏 You got yourself a new subscriber 😊
Wow! What a well researched video, and with very rare footage. I really njoyed, thanks a lot for the good job!
Thanks for shining the spotlight on one of my motor sports all time heroes.
Bravo! 100 000 Abonnés 💪🙏 TOP vidéo de la carrière de Michèle MOUTON 👍
Incredible driver, thank you much for the awesome video!
Great video, thanks for sharing all this 👍🏻
Wow, really enjoyed watching this comprehensive video on Michele's career thankyou.
Amazing Michele🎉🎉🎉! Thanks for this! ❤ it!
Very nicely done , she will always be one my favourite rally drivers of all time . Subbed.
It's amazing that with all the breakdowns these cars suffered any of them reached the finish at all, let alone win a championship. Hats off to Michele for achieving what she did and boy, I did tear up a bit with the part about her father.
IU am sure it was because of her technique. She drove with her right foot hard on the floor and used the brakes to slow down at the same time .I doubt she used the clutch and changed gear like in a truck.
Awesome story and very well told..... thank you for sharing
She was Crazy fast it was a true privilege to have witnessed her amazing speed and skills while man handling the group B Audi monsters
Thank you for this video.
Very well done and thank you for your time. Cheers from OZ
I really enjoyed learning about her from WRC10 during anniversary stage. Glad to find this material to learn more about her
what a brilliant video, great details, well put together and really entertaining - subbed!
Un video increible, enhorabuena y gracias!!!
Amazing. Thank you!
Amazing job Rub! It’s a fantastic vídeo! Congratulations mate!
This is how one does the biography of a rally driver. 10/10 and a shiny new subscriber to add to your 100k. I don't know if you mention it but I love what Michèle said to the Unser's when she beat them at Pikes Peak, "If you boys had any balls you'd race me back down as well", after that I knew she'd be a force to be reckoned with - although I guess she already was! "Donut Podcasts/Donut Media" should watch and learn from this video. Their videos on both Colin McRae and Michèle Mouton were terrible. They claimed to have spent days preparing both Colin's and Michèle's videos but couldn't even get Colin's famous quote correct. Over and over again they were saying "If in doubt, go flat out", now I'm betting that everyone here knows his actual quote. One in three pictures of Colin McRae has it stensiled across it. So are they lazy, incompetent or worthy challengers to the uh-wöt IQ levels from the flat Earth community scattered around the globe? When it came to Michèle Mouton they (Doh-nuts media) were going through her history and said that her first Audi was the S1. I mean there's wrong and then there's utter incompetence, when combined with Colin's video and one about the wing design of F1 cars where they stated that the underneath of the F1 would create a vacuum sucking the car to the ground. Now I firmly believe that if one is an "Influencer" then that carries an extra burden to be correct or at minimum, hire a five-year-old to proof read and help rewrite their scripts at least once. Saying that a vacuum sucks when they absolutely do not do that in any way shape or form is leading the younglings down a path of misinformation. Okay, pointless rant over and done with, once I've finished this video I'll be hitting your "back dogalogue".
The thing about F1 design is true though. Well, its not the most scientific description. Obviously there isnt a vaccum, but a difference in pressure.
@@schmid1.079 I am with you on that one 100% EDIT: I will admit that up until the whole vacuum sucking process it was a reasonably fair video on the incredible engineering that is involved in the F1 aero system. But to reiterate (or sound like a broken record) please if you're an influencer, influence correctly. Especially when it comes to the younglings!
Great coverage of an awesome competitor! Many thanks.
Thank you very much for this video!
And yet Hollywood is blind towards her.
Good point, but, probably for the best, considering the poor substance of most hollywood movies...
Awesome stunning Women ,Respect to her and she is the Best ❤
Brilliant report, thank you!!!
This is pure gold. Congratulations and greetings from Chile.
Very Informative. Nice work!
Outstanding documentary. What a trailblazing legend Michelle is.
Thank you very much for this very good video and congratulation! TheRUB ❤
Great story, was a bit too young to know about Michel's prowess. Thank you for sharing.
Always a good day when I come across a new motorsport channel, even more so when its a Rally focused one. All praise to the algorithm and its mystical ways.
I really appreciate the documentation of her success. I wish we could have gotten raw footage with audio in some parts, rather than an entire voice over. Hearing the cars or listening to her talk would have been an amazing addition to the video.
Thanks for your feedback 😄 I did not insert Pieces of interviews because of "copyright afraid" 😅
'Legend' isn't enough to describe this woman!
That was brilliant, thank you.
Loved it. Thank you for the herstory
such a great biography docco and I really appreciate you not overdoing the AI upscaling. The featured photos are all amazing, and I can't imagine where you sourced so many of them in such great quality
Beautiful video. Amazing woman👏👏👏👏
Really well researched and narrated video! I was always in admiration of Michèle, particularly when she devastated the competition at Pikes Peak, but you presented some fascinating insights and details here that can only make me respect her more. Cheers!
You did an excellent job on this video. Subscribed.
woah amazing! I never heard of her before, now I'm a big fan. Mesmerizing!
Mad respect for this amazing woman. A true legend of the Group B era.
An outstanding woman. Thank you for the documentary.
Awesome!