http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/formula1/18332772
F1 is one of the few sports I'll go out of my way to watch and this question, of why women drivers do not seem to make it to this pinnacle of motorsport, comes up periodically. You do get female drivers in other forumulae but appearances by the ladies in an F1 car have been vanishingly rare.
I think I agree with Mrs. Wolff that it is, in essence, a numbers game but that, at some point, the sport is going to need a female 'role model' to open the door and inspire girls to become top flight racers too.
F1 is one of the few sports I'll go out of my way to watch and this question, of why women drivers do not seem to make it to this pinnacle of motorsport, comes up periodically. You do get female drivers in other forumulae but appearances by the ladies in an F1 car have been vanishingly rare.
I think I agree with Mrs. Wolff that it is, in essence, a numbers game but that, at some point, the sport is going to need a female 'role model' to open the door and inspire girls to become top flight racers too.
. As Mrs. Wolff says, the numbers are against them (the ladies) as yet for there are hundreds of them in the sport and tens of thousands of their male counterparts. I think things are getting better on the sexism front but it's hyper tough at the top when there are only a couple of dozen seats available for the cream of the crop. I hope Susie is right and that within a decade we'll have a points scoring woman in F1, for there is no reason whatsoever why there should not be :tup:.
