Are female F1 drivers like buses?
Are female F1 drivers like buses?
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motormania

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1,143 posts

282 months

Monday 30th March 2009
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You wait years for one, and suddenly there could be two arriving on the horizon...

According to the BBC F1 Mole, Ron Dennis arranged with Mercedes Benz to fly out Susie Stoddart for a VIP weekend at the Aussie GP.

With talk of Danica possibly being signup up for the new USA F1 Team, it would appear that suddenely Susie is being pushed in front of the prying eyes of F1 too... I'm sure she could do a better job than a certain Renault driver with a 3 times world champion as his father?

Now that would be interesting to have two females on the grid, and not in a short skirt.

I wonder who these new teams, other than the USA one are going to be, as The Midget has said that three new teams will be joining next year?

Interesting...

Edited by motormania on Monday 30th March 13:49

Hammerwerfer

3,234 posts

269 months

Monday 30th March 2009
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A couple publicity stunts. Nothing more.

stifler

37,069 posts

217 months

Monday 30th March 2009
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From my experience of running women in racing cars, it's not that they are slow, they're not, it's that they have a massive chip on their shoulder about it. Rather than channelling their anger or frustration into making the car go faster, they would prefer to complain that people are holding them up because they're a girl.

Just my experience of running 4 different women in 3 different race series. Neither of them were stoddart or patrick fwiw.

dpbird90

5,535 posts

219 months

Monday 30th March 2009
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motormania said:
You wait years for one, and suddenly there could be two arriving on the horizon...

According to the BBC F1 Mole, Ron Dennis arranged with Mercedes Benz to fly out Susie Stoddart for a VIP weekend at the Aussie GP.

With talk of Danica possibly being signup up for the new USA F1 Team, it would appear that suddenely Susie is being pushed in front of the prying eyes of F1 too... I'm sure she could do a better job than a certain Renault driver with a 3 times world champion as his father?

Now that would be interesting to have two females on the grid, and not in a short skirt.

I wonder who these new teams, other than the USA one are going to be, as The Midget has said that three new teams will be joining next year?

Interesting...

Edited by motormania on Monday 30th March 13:49
It would be good to see how the girls get on against Lewis, Kimi, Felipe etc, but if they're crap they'll just become eye candy.


And the other teams, who's betting on Prodrive now the £30m budget cap thing has been introduced?

elster

17,517 posts

239 months

Monday 30th March 2009
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Can you imagine Lewis and Stoddard.

That is a gold mine in itself!

But yes plenty of competent female drivers out there. Don't think it will be long before there will be a girl on the grid.