Reply to: Women can't drive in F1?

[fullyautomatix]

Women will do very nicely in any motorsport. All the time I am driving along nicely on M25 and find a Audi or Merc flashing me and tail gating me, its almost always a woman.

[AtW]

I really always wanted to be a rally driver

You still can be!!!








Just not a very good one

[AtW]

wtf that road was straight!!!

remember that though lucky to survive!

Are you blind?

There was clearly the tree in front of it.

[MaryPoppins]

Surely French rally driver Michelle Mouton is the most successful woman in motorsport:

I really always wanted to be a rally driver

[shaunbhoy]

Indeed - they let Pistorius compete despite his disablement so why not do the same for women?

Perhaps they are not keen on a plethora of dead "burglars" in the bathroom?

[MyUserName]

Indeed - they let Pistorius compete despite his disablement so why not do the same for women?

Probably should let him have a car though?

[d000hg]

Indeed - they let Pistorius compete despite his disablement so why not do the same for women?

[Pogle]

Absolutely - women should just compete on their merits and be given no preferential treatment or artificial barriers.

That would be nice

[d000hg]

You'd think if anything a female driver would have an advantage by being able to attract different sponsors.

Indeed, it would certainly get them masses of free media attention regardless how crap she was... you'd think a team like Marussia or Caterham have nothing to lose in that regard.

We already have 1.5 female team bosses so maybe one of them will push for female drivers.

[VectraMan]

There are maybe 100 top drivers, and half a dozen amazing ones. After the half-dozen get in on merit, the other 16 seats are filled from those 100... so clearly you take the ones who have other qualities beyond being great drivers. Teams have the luxury of choice, beyond the Vettels, Hamiltons and Alonsos at least.

You'd think if anything a female driver would have an advantage by being able to attract different sponsors. It'd be a bit crap if she ended up being sponsored by Tampax or something similar, but it could happen.

[d000hg]

The skill argument isn't necessarily true. Quite often F1 is about how rich your parents are and in some cases how much money they can bring in. There were many excellent drivers in the lower formulas that were never given the chance even when they bested some of the so called top drivers in F1. No wonder they don't want to let talented women in!

There are maybe 100 top drivers, and half a dozen amazing ones. After the half-dozen get in on merit, the other 16 seats are filled from those 100... so clearly you take the ones who have other qualities beyond being great drivers. Teams have the luxury of choice, beyond the Vettels, Hamiltons and Alonsos at least.

[ZARDOZ]

The skill argument isn't necessarily true. Quite often F1 is about how rich your parents are and in some cases how much money they can bring in. There were many excellent drivers in the lower formulas that were never given the chance even when they bested some of the so called top drivers in F1. No wonder they don't want to let talented women in!

[doodab]

Absolutely - women should just compete on their merits

+1 for beauty contests

[MyUserName]

+1 to that... but also don't make a case to include them where there just isn't enough talent around to compete. If they can cut it then they should be able to compete, if they can't they don't. Seems pretty simple. Pushing women in(or men if it is a female dominated sport) just in the name of equality is stupid.

Absolutely - women should just compete on their merits and be given no preferential treatment or artificial barriers.

[northernladuk]

There is no reason that women should not be allowed to compete in whatever sport they wish, we should not discriminate against gender any more than against ethnic origin.

Whether they are capable of actually doing it is up to them but there should be no reason to bar them.

+1 to that... but also don't make a case to include them where there just isn't enough talent around to compete. If they can cut it then they should be able to compete, if they can't they don't. Seems pretty simple. Pushing women in(or men if it is a female dominated sport) just in the name of equality is stupid.