Jutta Kleinschmidt: Meet the first woman to win the Paris-Dakar rally

For nearly 50 years drivers have attempted to navigate the Paris to Dakar rally, an off-road endurance event over all types of terrain from tarmac to gravel to sand.

You can take part in a car or on a motor bike, but if you do not have the right skills and support team around you then you can find yourself lost in the Sahara desert.

In 2001 German Jutta Kleinschmidt became the first, and still the only woman to win the event.

Not By The Playbook finds out how she managed the impressive feat.

Photo: Germany's Jutta Kleinschmidt on the beach after she became the first woman to win the grueling Paris-Dakar rally 21 January 2001 in Daka. (Credit: AFP via Getty Images)