Michele Mouton interview | Rally car driver | Car racing | Motor Sport | After hours | 1984
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- Опубліковано 3 жов 2020
- Some extracts taken from a fascinating interview with former Rally driver Michèle Mouton
First shown: 06/02/1984
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I had a crush on both her and her Audi!
Still do
I... Don't blame you..
Still do chief 😂
Same
Had ?
as a 18 years old man, i'm gonna nearly fall in love with an old lady, her european english, beauty, mentality and driving skills...
At the time of this interview in 1984 Michelle was 33 years old. So far from an "Old lady" mind you. No matter how old you are.
The opposites collide.. The old hat "lady" brainwashed to know her oppressed place asking bizarre questions with crazy wording! Then the phenomenal Mouton.. A REAL woman, raised well and with a strong sense of being. An equal. In a way it's beautiful to see just as an example of the difference of the 2. And a lesson of what to aim for. Women like this completely crush sexism. It's not just sport we get to look up to her with. Amazing!
Exactly my thoughts, nothing will get better if we think like this interviewer.
She’s one of my hero’s. I’m a guy but she’s a hero for sure
Mine too
She's a very attractive woman in every sense. A true feminist in the best possible way, not like what it is today. We need more like her.
So true! And very well said.
You expressed my thoughts perfectly.
Best thing about her is the fact that she’s a Problem Solver! Thats an awesome quality in a racer!
I admire everyone that is able to control such a beast of a car such as an Audi group B. Let alone being competitive with it.
C'était la meilleure ha ha ! Michelle Mouton raised the bar so high that she will talked about even in one thousand years from now...Allez Michelle !!!
Personally I think the interviewer was good. We have to remember what time it was and how women were not in the ‘car’ world as much. I think it’s only logical that she thus asks simpler questions, because those can be universally understood. If she went for a really professional and technical interview, while it’d be cool for sure, I feel like ‘normal’ people (especially women watching) who don’t understand racing as much would just be left confused, no? And also we’re lucky the interviewer wasn’t super sexist or rude etc like some people were towards her at the time….
Questions also depend on the audience. If you have a mainly motorsport fanatic audience, you probably don't ask questions about traveling etc. But if you have an audience that does not know much about the rally circus and Michele Mouton as a person, an audience that in the next interview will be presented with a person from a totally different background, you try to ask questions that the "average or ordinary" person would be interested. And many people (at that time and today probably too) would be interested in how someone handles traveling half of the year, how a woman is treated in this profession or by the media, etc and what a race driver thinks during a race. She was kind of an unicorn for the public and so they asked her how it is to be an unicorn. That this unicorn thought about herself "only" as a rally driver was not in their heads.
Still today many actresses get asked about their dresses, while their male co-stars get to answer questions about the movie.
She's definitely top 10 motorsport heroes for me, up there with Senna, Ken Block, McRae, etc
Michele was one of the best WRC rally drivers of her era, she was hampered at times by the fragility of the car (ironically it being an Audi) but she seemed to have a sense of the balance of the car being able to keep it on the limit and hold it there almost as if she and the car were dance partners .... she put this balance down to her having done ballet, but I think it was a pure talent that few had.
*derpderpderp*
@@gavinvalentino6002 meaning ?
Well, I for one don't agree with some of the comments bellow about the "shitty interview" and "rubbish interviewer". I find this interview very interesting. Those are questions rarely - if ever - asked to male drivers about what makes (and made, as child) them tick, what they enjoy about driving, their very first time behind a wheel, or if they are interested in the mechanical side of cars, because I think it's just assumed - being men - that it's only natural they are. And there would be no point in asking a man what it's like to compete in a male only sport, but there is one in asking her. She obviously had something to say about it given her own situation, and it's nice she was able to explain how it was not out of reach for any woman at the time, as long as she really likes to drive and has the drive. I'm not a rally driver but I really do like to drive (the feeling of it) I have been comfortable behind a wheel from the first moment and I recognized myself in a lot of what she said.
Boltby Flying Finish, National Breakdown 1985, Audi Quattro A2 - Fastest I’ve ever seen a rally car go!
What a rubbish interviewer. I met Michele Mouton once at a service stop on the RAC Rally and what a lovely person to talk to. What a stupid question does she think about driving the car, as Michele pointed out if you have to think about it you're going to crash. As with most top sportspeople she does what she does instinctively. She was as good as any of the other drivers and was unlucky not to be world champion.
Yes! She should definitely have been world champion. Not sure why that never happened.
I know one thing, if my father ever caught me driving his car without his permission with no license, insurance.. I'd get the belt. As such, I wouldn't even think of doing it.
sonicstep The only reason she wasn't was Hannu Mikkola was the Micheal Schumacher of rallying at the time and of course he also drove for Audi. It's a bit like Bottas and Hamilton no matter what Bottas does Lewis always manges to go that little bit quicker.
Michele is a legend and it's a pity she had to endure such silly questions from a clueless interviewer.
@@sonicstep For one thing the biological difference between the genders: Michele wanted to be a mother and have a family so she had to stop racing full time. She has referenced having her daughter as the reason she stopped racing full time. She was only around 33 or 34 years old when she stopped racing full time. Had she raced full time for another two or four years she likely would have won a championship. Her career driving for a top constructor full time was only from 1980 to 1985.
For another, she raced in the 1980s Group B against half of the top 10 rally drivers of all time. Michele was their equal but there were other drivers deserving that didn't win championships either. The WRC grid of that time was arguably the most stacked in any motor sport ever and she did more than hold her own but just couldn't get over the hump.
Lastly, just kind the way the cards were dealt. Some of it was bad luck for her, some was just good luck for others. Her best shot was in 1982 but the night before the grueling Safari Rally her father died. She raced for him and jumped out to a huge lead but she was pushing the Quattro far beyond what the fast but fragile car could survive. For her part she was probably over driving the car in her grief and ended up DNF'ing. Then there's the long list of just crap bad luck like her mechanic accidentally filling the gas tank with water, weather combined with a later start killing her final stage at the 1000 Lakes Rally.... She was a very aggressive driver always on the rev limiter. (seriously you could tell when she was coming by the sound of the revs like you could tell it was Senna's by the reving in corners to fight turbo lag) There are rewards to that but also a down side, not too dissimilar to Colin McRae who in a much longer career only managed one championship. It just never worked out for her. As they say "that's racing".
And let me preface this by saying she was one of the great rally drivers and for sure one of if not my favorite drivers. However, she was not best driver in the field in any year she raced. Remember, she only won 4 rallies with a total of 9 podiums. Yes, she only had 5'ish years in a top car full time but it was the top car and legendary in Group B. She was consistently a better driver than 98% of the field but she never had a season where she was better than 100% of the field. She is kind of rallying's Sr. Sterling Moss, and if you think that is a slight fight me. Moss was one of the top F1 drivers of all time, he was just never the best in a single season.
4:10 thats the key, if you put your mind to to it theres a chance you can achive it
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Journalists always think there's a correlation between being a good driver in traffic and being a good track or rally driver. They are two different animals. You can be good at one and still bad at the other.
Love her!!!!
This is a feminist. She acts and does her best
at 1.51 ahahah remember me Monthy Python when the rugbyman play against child ;))))))
B E A U T I F U L !!! you were beautiful!!!!
ARE
London Welsh chilling in the background.
It is both annoying and inappropriate to hear her being asked these gender obsessed questions.. I feel there were so many other, better questions to ask a professional rally driver. An opportunity lost. Thanks for uploading.
It was over 35 yrs ago! Get real. This lady doing the intrview was a godsend compared to what it could have been
god I'm wildly in love with him
Did anyone ever see her park a car?
Here is the difference between the Franco and Anglo world.
The Anglo world is always about some underlying "thing".
The French Chic
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Total nonsense 😂.
Sorry but they are talking about racing here.... as I'm getting a different vibe. And not just because I've got a filthy mind!!
What a waste of an interview, the interviewer interviewed her as a women and not as an racing driver. This is where feminism went off track I suppose, while trying to removing the emphasis on gender, they actually became gynocentric and established it further more.
I get what u trying to say but it was such a different time, I think you would have almost the same kind of interviews today if a woman signed a deal on F1