Rally legend Michele Mouton picked up the FIA Lifetime Achievement Award at the world motorsport governing body’s prize-giving in Rwanda.
Mouton has enjoyed a 50-year career in motorsport acting as a trailblazer for women drivers while playing a vital role in improving safety.
Mouton is most famous for her exploits competing in the World Rally Championship, where she won four rallies and remains the only woman to win a round of the championship. In 1982, while driving for Audi, she challenged for the world title before eventually finishing runner-up to Opel’s Walter Rohrl.
After retiring from driving, Mouton has remained heavily involved in rallying, and organising the Race of Champions events before taking up the role of WRC manager and then the FIA’s rally safety delegate.
This year marked Mouton’s last season in the position having opted to retire from the role.
Mouton also awarded the champions trophies to Hyundai’s Thierry Neuville and co-driver Martijn Wydaeghe, while Toyota’s project director Yuichiro Haruna accepted the manufacturers’ trophy.
