fanstastic point Angilion, she was probably one of the best female racing/rally drivers to have been..... ever.
and she was at the sharp end proper. Group B was one of the most demanding and gruelling series out there not to mention more dangerous than anything that's came since.
current F1 stars look like utter Pansys next to the heroes of Group B
for those not of an age to be familiar with Group B
Ugh...they've put music over the real sounds.
I think that one of the things she said in that second video is a good summary of her approach to rallying and something that was both a strength and a weakness "...give everything I have inside to try to rally, to try to go flat out". She was utterly committed - if she entered a race, she was going to be racing every metre as fast as possible, flat out at every available opportunity. Maybe the most telling example was after she retired and did the Pike's Peak hillclimb. She'd been told, by people who knew what they were doing, that one of the bends near the top was a bit deceptive and it was necessary to lift off to get around it. She took it flat out anyway and said afterwards that for a second or two she thought she was going to go off the road. Off the road most of the way up a mountain, where "going off the road" meant "going off the mountain and plummeting down to almost certain death". And she still didn't lift. Flat out at every available opportunity. The reason why I think that attitude was also a weakness was that I think she was sometimes too bold for the cars of the day. Group B cars were not really very good in many ways. Huge power, but not so good in every other way. She broke cars quite a bit, pushing them a bit too much. I think she would have done better if she could have competed in modern rally cars, as they're much more robust than Group B cars were.
Another video with music, but it has some onboard footage and I think it shows the biggest problem with Group B - crowd control. This wasn't the worst example, not by a long chalk. You could have a crowd of spectators in the middle of the track, running aside a fraction of a second in front of you. Michelle Mouton once commented that it was necessary to think of them as trees, i.e. as obstacles and not as people, or else you wouldn't be able to race.
No music and yet more of the "Why the hell are there people
on the track during the race?" problem. The noise of the later model Quattro is what I most remember. It crafted an image in my mind of a giant budgie riding a giant and very angry bear. I had no idea what noise an angry bear makes (and still don't), but the potency and visceral, muscular physicality of the sound made me think of a giant bear.
Mental time. I suspect the FIA greviously underestimated what engineers could do with a clean slate to custom-make a rally car from scratch without any consideration of a commercially viable road version. Or what drivers with a great deal of skill and courage would be eager to drive on tracks designed for cars with less than a quarter of the power.
only female mechnaics allowed, no male trash need apply. 
