M’s xDrive is reaping the rewards of the Audi Quattro
It’s worth not just watching but re-watching Queen of Speed, the Sky documentary about Michèle Mouton. It tells several stories at once, and on first viewing it’s easy to miss some of the details, as it all cracks along at quite a pace, and there’s so much glorious archive footage to distract you from what’s being said. There’s the obvious storyline about how Mouton was not just the first female rally driver to do so well, but also the last. She discusses this more in bewilderment than bitterness. Maybe the W Series all-female circuit-racing series is helping to move things on, at last. Perhaps Extreme E, the electric off-road championship that involves driver duos consisting of one man and one woman, will help. But you do find yourself wondering quite what’s…
