On 4 November 1962, after completing 4626 kilometres, Ewy Rosqvist and her co-driver Ursula Wirth emerged victorious in the VI Touring Car Grand Prix of Argentina ("VI Gran Premio Internacional Standard Supermovil YPF") in their Mercedes-Benz 220 SE (W 111). The entire country excitedly celebrated the outstanding victory of the Mercedes-Benz women's team in South America's tough long-distance rally.

Before the start, the newspapers still somewhat ridiculed the fact that a women's team were setting out on the marathon rally through Argentina. When Rosqvist and Wirth chalked up a victory on the first stage, their success was soon praised as a respectable achievement. However, when the duo then also won the second stage, there was no more holding back and the Swedish women were wildly celebrated by the country's media. The state of the nation at that time was captured in the German language newspaper "Freie Presse", which was published in Buenos Aires: "It was not the Cuban missile crisis, but rather the two blondes from Scandinavia who dominated the headlines in the country's daily newspapers."

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