Lhe story of the first (and only to date) woman to have won the toughest race in the world, the Rally Dakar, to be taken to the movies. Jutta Kleinschmidt be the protagonist of a movie to tell nothing less than the Steven Spielberg production, as it has advanced the Gazzetta dello Sport in today’s issue.
The life of the winner of the 2001 Dakar Rally on the back of a Mitsubishi Montero to be the plot of the tape, produced by Amblin Partners Y directed by David Leitch, in which the protagonist herself participate in the pilot scenes, according to the Italian newspaper.
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Without a doubt, the life of Kleinschmidt (58 years old) makes for a good film … and not only for his sporting successes, not yet equaled. Also because of his passion for the Dakar, which led him to follow an edition on his own motorcycle, simply as a hobbyist or by his training as an engineer, which has allowed him to have a relevant role in the development of different vehicles competition (she took the first steps of the buggy that took Carlos Sainz to his last victory in the Dakar).
Currently, in addition to continuing to compete occasionally – as in the last round of the Extreme E, where as the reserve driver of the championship he had to replace Claudia Hurtgen – he is nothing less than the most ‘powerful’ woman in the world of raids.
From his position of President of the Cross Country Commission of the International Automobile Federation, the German has been a key piece in the FIA’s decision to ‘move up’ to the category of the discipline, which next year will be the World Championship, with the Dakar as the first race on the calendar.
