Patrick to drive for Haas ?

[confucuis]

But isn't she a fairly average driver anyway, the very little I know about her career (and I stress very little) in Nascar and Indycar seems to suggest she was lost at sea in both those series and made quite a lot of stupid mistakes so she'd hardly be the best choice for a new team.

[Galileo]

Winnie-the-Pooh has more chance of driving in F1 than her.

[CharlesAL]

Not too knowledgable about Nascar but it seems like she's a decent driver with a couple of decent results recently. Surely too old to be an F1 rookie though, she'll be 33-34 by the time Haas get going, and I thought she was only interested in racing on ovals now.

As for women being not physically capable, Susie Wolff and Simona de Silvestro have both managed to drive F1 cars in the last few weeks. Indycars are probably harder to drive than F1 in some ways, being heavier and with no power steering.

[vonuber]

CharlesAL said:

As for women being not physically capable, Susie Wolff and Simona de Silvestro have both managed to drive F1 cars in the last few weeks.

Quite. And not forgetting Maria De Villota also.

[Megaflow]

Adrian W said:

Justaredbadge said:

Adrian W said:

The main reason there are no women in F1 (other than some races falling on the wrong weekend) is that they cannot get fit or strong enough, unless you find a woman that is built like a bloke it isn't going to happen.

Utter rubbish.

Clearly you know better than all the fomula1 team bosses when asked this question.

Brembo, Messier-Bugatti and Hitco all quote force in excess of 200 kilos on the pedal

Edited by Adrian W on Thursday 12th June 12:36

It's closer to 120kg. Out of curiosity I tried a 120kg single leg press in the gym tonight, never tired single leg press before. I managed 120kg for ten reps.

For a woman to do it repeatedly would be a piss of pi.......