For anyone doubting Michelle's legend status for having a rollover, think about the King of British rallying Collin Mcrae. That guy was upside down almost as much as he was on the wheels. It's apart of the sport when they're truly pushing the boundaries.
If you guys are Quattro fanboys, you better know who Michele Mouton is. She was on the very first batch of quattro drivers together with Röhrl and is regarded a legend as much as the S1 itself. In which she, by the way, placed second in the 1984 pikes peak and first in 1985 with the by then all time best recorded time. She isn't just some girl who did some rallies, she is a genuine contender up there with Röhrl and Vatanen. Oh and she's also a co-founder of this very event, and that car is NOT a replica. That is the very car she used to drive in the WRC as someone else mentioned earlier. Now she doesn't really need to be defended by me, just watch some group B clips with her and it should speak for itself
Chacalx98EVO The only Championship Rally a S1 was able to win, was the San remo in 85. The short Quattros had a very poor handling, so I also think the 205t16, Delta S4 have been the better cars. The Ford was too havey, but in the two Championship Rallys which the Ford did, and were not pulled out of all producer Teams, they retired in leading position.
Poor Michelle and poor S1 :( She must have been mortified. Wrong setup for suspension. Car looks so top heavy. Not a Tarmac setting at all. Stupid track too, with those horrible barriers just waiting to cripple an irreplaceable piece of motorsport history :(
@@Burning_. That's the worst reason ever. Oh noooo, VW made their cars perform better at the cost of emissions, ban the heretics and destroy the museums 🤦
I'm glad to see these cars are still getting the shit beat out of them, its what they are built for no reason to cry its nothing but battle scars to a glorious machine
Hello sir. I am from the future. Ten years precisely. I am reaching you today to recommend that you stay where you are. Things aren't doing exactly well here.
That car is fucking scary. I don't know if I'd ever get in one, even if it was driven by her or Röhrl - or maybe especially not then, that friggin speed
@@andymb601 The Quattro was never intended to win tarmac rallies, the AWD system was outstanding in dirt tracks but had massive understeering on tarmac.
Michèle Mouton is the 1982 WRC Runner-up (the only woman to achieve such a high championship ranking iirc, and in Group B era on top of that...) - she only lost the title to Walter Röhrl after crashing out of the Ivory Coast Rally while leading. She was a challenge to beat even for the other legends of her time-that's how good she was. In fact, she is a member of the Rally Hall of Fame and was awarded the Legion of Honour for her achievements in rallying. She has also been one of WRC's top managers since 2011. It sure is a shame that Michelle wrecked that Quattro here, but hey...even Loeb wrote his car off sometimes... the best still make mistakes sometimes... :)
I love the Race of champions. Each driver having to step out of their comfort zone in cars they are not use to. I also like watching cars perform on a circuit they were never designed for. Watching a NASCAR being hustled around a lap of this track is great. This Audi on a ultra grippy tight track must have been out of its natural habitat too
One local rally in Finland in the 80s. My dad had an record for his home stage for an long time. Then someone came an beat it. Beat it by huge difference. That someone was none other than Michelle Mouton.
Wie dumm von den Verantwortlichen den S1 auf einem engen spitzwinkligen Indoor Asphaltkurs, mit so einer extrem weichen Feder/Dämpfer Abstimmung und diesen Rädern antreten zu lassen! Das sowas passiert sieht man schon lange vorher! Das Auto "rollt" ohne Ende. So weich war kein S1 je offiziell unterwegs! Was haben die sich nur dabei gedacht ??!
Das hat Audi wohl verlernt...dieses Vorsprung durch Technik.... Ich suche es in den Fahrzeugen der letzten Jahre ebenfalls vergeblich. Audi sagt eh immer nur, das ist kein Fehler..dieses Klackern des Motors ist Stand der Technik :-)
Oh dear,it's never pleasant to see any accident,but especially when it involves two rally legends - Michelle and the S1 Quattro. Glad the driver is perfectly OK and the car will repair. Thanks for sharing the clip!
@@justindesrosiers3145 Yeah, but the way she hit the corner, she drifted in too early, and didn't correct it in time. It was mostly the car's fault, but not all.
wauw this video is 11 years old and I see comments from 8 years ago! what fun it'd be to see what people were thinking back then! Edit: not much different compared to now
In her defense, this is a very tight short tarmac track. Basically a glorified go cart track. This car was made to go incredibly fast on a dirt and gravel road over bumps and through mud. Not 50kmph around a solid track, Michele being the women she is pushed it, and rolled it. And there is nothing wrong with that, no matter who you are, if you are a true race car driver be it rally or nascar you will fail and crash your car because you will never do better if you don't push a little bit harder every time.
Let's not forget, this car is completely out of its comfort zone here. Plus the Audi S1 Quattro was notorious for massive understeer. Its understeering nature, massive bodyroll due to improper suspension setup for this track, as well as the tight-turn tarmac nature of the track would make this very tricky to properly pull off.
Dude, you could see how hard it was to get that thing sideways because of the suspension and alignment. That was also waaaay too soft a setup for tarmac. Michelle is still a god damned legend!
Michelle Mouton didn't win the 1982 WRC (Group B) because of bad reliability.She also won the Pikes Peak in 1985 among a lot of other accolades. She can roll as many cars as she likes. She is a legend!
Glad to see the real culprit is being blamed; wrong suspension setup for this difficult tarmac course! Jacked up way too high, way too soft. Maybe she reckoned it would be easier to slide like that. Oh well. Michelle Mouton is still a legend, though.
There is definitely WAY too much body roll, but I can almost guarantee you she wouldn't have rolled if she didn't drive over the weirdly raised curb in that corner.
It's not only poor suspension setup but she hooked her inside wheel on that curb that had a nasty edge to it. Almost any car would have gone over but the added body roll certainly didn't help.
Definetely not michele's fault. i mean, look how the car rolls in every corner driving quite slow: it seems a van. there's something wrong with suspension's set up.
It has a gravel setup. It's a common practise to do that to a rally car for the shows, even if they would be driven in tarmac. Another example: ua-cam.com/video/D3egzks8yMQ/v-deo.html
who the hell decided that a soft suspension setup like that would be good for tarmac? everything under the car needs to be stiffened up and the ride height lowered, this appears to be the complete opposite setup, glad to see the car not hit one of those walls, I've seen vintage race cars in worse wrecks get repaired so it shouldn't be too hard to repair this one
Dumb question, after they rolled it back on the its wheels, if she wanted to, could she have jumped back in and resumed doing laps ? The car looks pretty fine, is there actual damage that we can’t see, maybe to the wheel alignement etc ?
This happened because the driver was babying the throttle. If he would have driven the car [all out] this would not have happened. It would have slid instead of rolling over.
That car suspension has more hideous body roll than a stock Jeep, definitely not done right for tarmac. She would have been planted had it been set up right.
Bullshit lame excuses, she simply didn't steer into the roll, if this could be saved (ua-cam.com/video/IUAcZ7owI_8/v-deo.html) so could she save the Audi.
it seems like she got the front left into the inside of the curb, that plus the body roll of the car probably caused her to flip. But even if she hit it she shouldnt have flipped she would have just jumped
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She was driving well. Suspension setup was obviously not for tarmac; too much body roll. All the best to her.
Ohh a real expert ..pfff
@@benzotekk i mean its a fact
@@benzotekk ...but the suspension setup was not for tarmac
@@benzotekk I hope you're not a car guy/girl 😅
@JSHuiting Also she clipped the kerb @0:35
For anyone doubting Michelle's legend status for having a rollover, think about the King of British rallying Collin Mcrae. That guy was upside down almost as much as he was on the wheels. It's apart of the sport when they're truly pushing the boundaries.
Colin McCrash!! 🤣🤣 Hell of a driver though!! R.I.P
You can’t be a good driver if you never crash. Anyone using a crash to doubt someones legend status is just dumb
@@LibrarianValkyrie ah the memories
@@LibrarianValkyrie I forgot I had that lol
@@LibrarianValkyrie just like I haven’t got past like the 3rd/4th level on sega rally (big arcade machines) haha
Suspension was so obviously not set up for tarmac. Somebody probably got fired over this.
Watch the video and you would know......
That was probably chosen for entertainment purposes.
@@moneytron4143 I can't believe it's not obvious to you, look how the car behaves. You can see it leaning way too much.
@@Eatinbritches OK man, dont be angry.
@@moneytron4143 i think so, it looks to much soft, bouncing one side to the other.
If you guys are Quattro fanboys, you better know who Michele Mouton is. She was on the very first batch of quattro drivers together with Röhrl and is regarded a legend as much as the S1 itself. In which she, by the way, placed second in the 1984 pikes peak and first in 1985 with the by then all time best recorded time. She isn't just some girl who did some rallies, she is a genuine contender up there with Röhrl and Vatanen. Oh and she's also a co-founder of this very event, and that car is NOT a replica. That is the very car she used to drive in the WRC as someone else mentioned earlier. Now she doesn't really need to be defended by me, just watch some group B clips with her and it should speak for itself
Michele Mouton never drove a Audi Sport Quattro S1 in the WRC.
de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mich%C3%A8le_Mouton
Next time use a Delta S4, 205T16 or RS200 the better rally cars :-)) Quattro is usefull for background sound haha.
Marcel Müller You know nothing about Group B cars. That's sure.
Chacalx98EVO
my favorite is the 037 with lampredi volumexx
Chacalx98EVO The only Championship Rally a S1 was able to win, was the San remo in 85. The short Quattros had a very poor handling, so I also think the 205t16, Delta S4 have been the better cars. The Ford was too havey, but in the two Championship Rallys which the Ford did, and were not pulled out of all producer Teams, they retired in leading position.
That car had more body roll than a 70s Volvo, can you really blame her?
whats wrong with a Volvo
@@ry7hym that comment was three years ago bud
@@burkejohnson4539 time isn’t a healer his in love with his Volvo
My 73 Volvo didn't come with an anti-roll bar in the rear from factory, can confirm it has a lot of body roll.
@@ry7hym Everything. I drove a 940 with 400hp + at the wheels and it feels like a damn boat even with coilovers. Queen marry has better handling😑
Value just went up-A true legend rolled it
It was the car she raced in
😂😂😂
@@IrishJayc63 Not in the WRC she'd left Audi by the time this was made.
@@NathanMcCabe88 she won pikes peak in the s1
@@Bzorlan correct, but it wasn't the E2 it was the original S1. She did it in 1985.
Poor Michelle and poor S1 :(
She must have been mortified.
Wrong setup for suspension. Car looks so top heavy. Not a Tarmac setting at all.
Stupid track too, with those horrible barriers just waiting to cripple an irreplaceable piece of motorsport history :(
Do you know that she is the event organizer. She came up with Race Of Champions.
Burning Why..?
@@Burning_. no u
@@Burning_. That's the worst reason ever. Oh noooo, VW made their cars perform better at the cost of emissions, ban the heretics and destroy the museums 🤦
The irreplaceable piece of motor sport history is Michelle, not the Quattro!
I'm glad to see these cars are still getting the shit beat out of them, its what they are built for no reason to cry its nothing but battle scars to a glorious machine
it's just a kit car
@@Thomas-ht2px it's the real cuattro from group B, not a kitcar
Hello sir. I am from the future. Ten years precisely. I am reaching you today to recommend that you stay where you are. Things aren't doing exactly well here.
@@Thomas-ht2px What an odd thing to say!
Like others have said, wtf was the suspension set like that for, it looked like it was on stilts!
The best woman driver ever! Many "boys" never drive or touch in a Audi Quattro Rally group B car, just shut up!
That car is fucking scary. I don't know if I'd ever get in one, even if it was driven by her or Röhrl - or maybe especially not then, that friggin speed
If you're not on the roof at least once...you're not trying hard enough. Respect to Michelle Mouton...always the fierce competitor.
One of the best comments here
@@jxpd7898 Cheers!
Lol, that suspension setting! :D
This car was made for rally, not for tarmac
@@Adam-ii2hz tarmac and rally are not mutually exclusive
@@andymb601 The Quattro was never intended to win tarmac rallies, the AWD system was outstanding in dirt tracks but had massive understeering on tarmac.
@@brunoterrosa7465 the only rally the E2 won was a tarmac stage but ight
@@andymb601 you gonna act like they know this nah they just know what their yters told them
Michèle Mouton is the 1982 WRC Runner-up (the only woman to achieve such a high championship ranking iirc, and in Group B era on top of that...) - she only lost the title to Walter Röhrl after crashing out of the Ivory Coast Rally while leading. She was a challenge to beat even for the other legends of her time-that's how good she was.
In fact, she is a member of the Rally Hall of Fame and was awarded the Legion of Honour for her achievements in rallying. She has also been one of WRC's top managers since 2011.
It sure is a shame that Michelle wrecked that Quattro here, but hey...even Loeb wrote his car off sometimes... the best still make mistakes sometimes... :)
1983 was the first year of Group B. Not 1982.
She was also the first person to win a WRC event in a Quattro San Remo 81
Shes still a legend to me!Anyone who threw Group B cars about for a living back in the day deserves respect!!!
To you? Lol don't be so selfish she's a legend to EVERYONE! 😉
The Goddess of Group B...
Sucks that she had a soft rally (gravel) set up on her suspension ..
A proper tribute would be the crowd coming on track turning the car over and it speeding off. Not marshals trying get the driver out.
I love the Race of champions. Each driver having to step out of their comfort zone in cars they are not use to. I also like watching cars perform on a circuit they were never designed for. Watching a NASCAR being hustled around a lap of this track is great. This Audi on a ultra grippy tight track must have been out of its natural habitat too
She's my hero
A race car being raced, instead of collecting dust in a museum.
One local rally in Finland in the 80s. My dad had an record for his home stage for an long time.
Then someone came an beat it. Beat it by huge difference.
That someone was none other than Michelle Mouton.
Wie dumm von den Verantwortlichen den S1 auf einem engen spitzwinkligen Indoor Asphaltkurs, mit so einer extrem weichen Feder/Dämpfer Abstimmung und diesen Rädern antreten zu lassen! Das sowas passiert sieht man schon lange vorher! Das Auto "rollt" ohne Ende.
So weich war kein S1 je offiziell unterwegs! Was haben die sich nur dabei gedacht ??!
Das hat Audi wohl verlernt...dieses Vorsprung durch Technik....
Ich suche es in den Fahrzeugen der letzten Jahre ebenfalls vergeblich.
Audi sagt eh immer nur, das ist kein Fehler..dieses Klackern des Motors ist Stand der Technik :-)
Michelle ROCs and rolls! She's still got it.
Oh dear,it's never pleasant to see any accident,but especially when it involves two rally legends - Michelle and the S1 Quattro. Glad the driver is perfectly OK and the car will repair. Thanks for sharing the clip!
Ah dunno this shit was bodyrolling like crazy before she turned it upside down. The suspension setup was definetly off
@@justindesrosiers3145 Yeah, but the way she hit the corner, she drifted in too early, and didn't correct it in time.
It was mostly the car's fault, but not all.
That lady is a maniac. You have to literally have no fear to be her rally co pilot.
wauw this video is 11 years old and I see comments from 8 years ago! what fun it'd be to see what people were thinking back then!
Edit: not much different compared to now
Lol at the people criticising Michelle - clearly it had the wrong setup on it. Full rally mode on grippy tarmac was never going to work was it.
You don't just send someone out on jelly-car springs and expect the driver to do well, let alone while staying on both wheels.
Happens to the best. Quattros are notoriously unstable and this doesn't take away from her absolute LEGEND status.
In her defense, this is a very tight short tarmac track. Basically a glorified go cart track. This car was made to go incredibly fast on a dirt and gravel road over bumps and through mud. Not 50kmph around a solid track, Michele being the women she is pushed it, and rolled it. And there is nothing wrong with that, no matter who you are, if you are a true race car driver be it rally or nascar you will fail and crash your car because you will never do better if you don't push a little bit harder every time.
in her defence she is an absolute legend who doesn't need to be defended hahaha her driving speaks for its self.
well in her defence, the Quattro sucks when it is on the Tarmac. Had she been driving in dirt/gravel, we could've seen a fraction of her power.
well its always sad to see a legend of a vehicle crash... but im glad a legend of a driver was the one to do it!
Michelle did a full on interview while causally throwing around an old 911 rally style. No Michelle Mouton slander will be tolerated.
I din't knew Audi Enginners swapped the Quattro's Suspension to a Citroën 2CV one lmao poor Michelle
She is my Queen,the legend,the beauty and her beast (s1). Deepest and greatest respect from Russia.
Hi GTGDC! Your video is amazing! Could i use it for a rally compilation?
I will write your channel name and link into description ;)
Mr. M hi Mr. M! Congrats for your channel, it's amazing!
@RallyFan Yes. I'm still waiting for a response 😂
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Let's not forget, this car is completely out of its comfort zone here. Plus the Audi S1 Quattro was notorious for massive understeer. Its understeering nature, massive bodyroll due to improper suspension setup for this track, as well as the tight-turn tarmac nature of the track would make this very tricky to properly pull off.
that soft ass suspension for tarmac.....wtf
IDGAF if she rolled, she's still a better driver than everyone in the comments section including myself, combined.
To manage to get that car around with that much understeer is pretty dang good driving
In all fairness the body took very minimal damaged could be sorted out
Such a huge company and nobody installed the correct shocks
Only thing I can say is I wish the announcer would shut up so we can hear that beautiful sound from the beautiful car.
Poor Audi looked like it was in a cage. Not able to stretch its legs AT ALL in that arena😌
I don't understand why the suspension was set up so loose. Are these the sand dune racing cars that are trying to run on asphalt?
they see me rollin.....they hatin..
Dude, you could see how hard it was to get that thing sideways because of the suspension and alignment. That was also waaaay too soft a setup for tarmac.
Michelle is still a god damned legend!
Michelle Mouton didn't win the 1982 WRC (Group B) because of bad reliability.She also won the Pikes Peak in 1985 among a lot of other accolades. She can roll as many cars as she likes. She is a legend!
Michelle Mouton also rolled her Audi Quattro in the Rally Côte d'Ivoire, dooming her chances of winning the 1982 Group B championship.
@@hellomadetScuffed I don't think there is a driver of any kind of racing who hasn't crashed a car.
I bet she was annoyed about that to say the least … another great Rallying legend …. 👍
That track looks like a slot-car track!
Yo what the fuck kind of suspension setup is that
When the car isn't fast enough for the driver
Die Karre fährt wie eine 60er Jahre S Klasse ohne Stoßdämpfer ! War das Absicht der Frau ein dermaßen schlecht abgestimmtes Auto zu überlassen ?
The car was suffering with that kart size track
To soft shocks!! Dont blame that AMAZING woman.
Soft socks are pretty good
@@WanganTunedKeiCar sorry for eat the "H" and thank's.
too much traction that the car is not designed for
Looks like she was just getting warmed up! Car set up let her down and spoilt her fun.
Absolute legend no doubt
DriveTribe just had an interview with Abby Eaton. She spoke of the danger of those big curbs. I think she's on to something.
She’s an absolute madhouse!
This is tragic but her and the car have god status so it will be all good they make it better
It's not tragic at all. The car is fine, it was taken care of by people with passion and resources. Tragic would be seeing it not driven at all
Glad to see the real culprit is being blamed; wrong suspension setup for this difficult tarmac course! Jacked up way too high, way too soft. Maybe she reckoned it would be easier to slide like that. Oh well. Michelle Mouton is still a legend, though.
There is definitely WAY too much body roll, but I can almost guarantee you she wouldn't have rolled if she didn't drive over the weirdly raised curb in that corner.
Not a track and set up for this car
Super,Labombastic,Fantastic, Školastic!!!!!!👍👏🤘🤝👌👐😍🏍️💓🧠😇🙏🐬
Anti-roll bars not found
The automotive equivalent of a broach in sailing 😆
Clearly not driver error, an issue with the suspension set up.
Love Michele
That's probably how driving a F1 speedboat on tarmac would look like... Quite a bit out of its element...
Gravel setup
Besides body roll, lifted kerbs on such a tight track was an accident waiting to happen especially with the way that car is set up.
She is still one of the best drivers ever , she pulled McRae on that Audi 👍
When was it? At the race of champions?
@@SailorRxx I think so
It's not only poor suspension setup but she hooked her inside wheel on that curb that had a nasty edge to it. Almost any car would have gone over but the added body roll certainly didn't help.
The suspension was meant for gravel and dirt ,they didn't set it up right
Definetely not michele's fault. i mean, look how the car rolls in every corner driving quite slow: it seems a van. there's something wrong with suspension's set up.
It has a gravel setup. It's a common practise to do that to a rally car for the shows, even if they would be driven in tarmac. Another example: ua-cam.com/video/D3egzks8yMQ/v-deo.html
who the hell decided that a soft suspension setup like that would be good for tarmac? everything under the car needs to be stiffened up and the ride height lowered, this appears to be the complete opposite setup, glad to see the car not hit one of those walls, I've seen vintage race cars in worse wrecks get repaired so it shouldn't be too hard to repair this one
Upside-down is good, but if you're not travelling backwards at 80mph and on fire as well you're still not trying hard enough.
[Just kidding.🙃 🔥]
That suspension setup is a fucking crime. Whoever made that setup before this race is an absolute baboon
why did they make the suspension so soft? A rollover was just waiting to happen with this setup.
All things considered, the legend still got it 💪
Audi quattro voted last year best rally car of all time i must say i still agree,first 4x4 rally car and greatest
that wasnt a replica... it was MM`s original car from the audi museum (cry) but the specialists repaired it and it is like new now again
Dumb question, after they rolled it back on the its wheels, if she wanted to, could she have jumped back in and resumed doing laps ? The car looks pretty fine, is there actual damage that we can’t see, maybe to the wheel alignement etc ?
Very wrong suspension set up.Mouton is a living legend ✌
Everyone making suspension excuses.. She did clip the apex a bit though, clearly.
This happened because the driver was babying the throttle. If he would have driven the car [all out] this would not have happened. It would have slid instead of rolling over.
That car suspension has more hideous body roll than a stock Jeep, definitely not done right for tarmac. She would have been planted had it been set up right.
OMG the understeer... what a disastrous suspension setup
Those things were famously awful on tarmac. Mouton said so during the period. Understeering pigs.
Back to Canary Islands place Race of Champions.. real champions not just a show
So wie die Karre rollt könnte man meinen das ist ein 2CV Chassis mit 'ner S1 Karosse....
There is no reason this car should ever just flip on a flat surface
Someone f*ked up
oh no the beutifull hystorik car!!!😰😰😰🤦♂️🤦♂️🤦♂️
If it was set for tarmac like the tour de course or san remo it would have barely lifted the inside wheels.
Women
Bullshit lame excuses, she simply didn't steer into the roll, if this could be saved (ua-cam.com/video/IUAcZ7owI_8/v-deo.html) so could she save the Audi.
Now that's on the limit!
Ok, slightly over.
She drove over the bump. That's what caused the rollover. It would never happen with Seb Loeb for sure
That awesume,
She starts to get some heat in the tires, then she starts leaning on her and big old monster rolls over..
Bravo Michele, Bravo!!!
What kind of an idiot brings a rally suspension setup to a tarmac print track.
And what kind of bullshit areo kit is that? Where is the aero undertay?
thought this was a model or something up until people ran onto the track, anyone else?
Oops
it seems like she got the front left into the inside of the curb, that plus the body roll of the car probably caused her to flip. But even if she hit it she shouldnt have flipped she would have just jumped