Comments on: Where are all the women?

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By: connie

connie — Fri, 05 Jun 2009 06:54:14 +0000

you are so right michelle is one of the greatest girls ever seen in motorsport

By: DG

DG — Wed, 14 May 2008 07:52:37 +0000

I find it strange that there are not more women in open wheel motor racing – there are now quite a few in Rallying, DTM and occasionally Touring Cars.
The F1 teams, and others, have not made the discovery that Horse Racing stables found a few years back, that women are generally smaller and lighter than men, although not as strong.
In an F1 car, where weight is everything, a smaller lighter woman might be a better bet than even a superlightweight Hamilton. Is strength an issue? But if Danika can handle an IRL car, she should be able to drive an F1 car.
Perhaps the main concern for the F1 teams is the extra publicity generated by an attractive young woman driver, but then seeing the recent hype over Hamilton, I am sure it could be managed just as easily.
The Bernie/Danika spat is purely down to personalities, or even publicity, as I doubt Bernie has watched a single IRL race, or even a NASCAR race! It would be good to see the likes of BMW, Honda, Toyota and McLaren start using women drivers, as I am sure they would see the benifits if they brought them through a racing career similar to Hamilton – there aren’t any women in GP2 either at the moment I notice, but there are some in Formula BMW and Formula Renault.

By: chunter

chunter — Fri, 25 Apr 2008 23:32:56 +0000

I think the simplest answer to “why aren’t there women in F1″ is that there don’t seem to be enough women that like to race at that level of competition at the moment.

That’s a paraphrase of the answer given to explain why the male-to-female ratio at a music college I attended was so poor.

By: Toncho

Toncho — Wed, 23 Apr 2008 21:16:35 +0000

Jutta Kleinschmidt won the Paris Dakar and that doesn’t seem to me like an easy one, plus have you see Vettel, Massa or Alonso? they look quitr weak to me. I guess that is more a lack of top women drivers and sponsors not willing to take any risk.

By: GeorgeK

GeorgeK — Wed, 23 Apr 2008 00:09:43 +0000

Danica won her race in large part to fuel strategy, not in a competitive wheel to wheel charge. She’s not the first and won’t be the last to win a fuel mileage race, so she deserves the credit regardless of how diminished some may wish to make it.

As for using her sexiness and states of undress, she was posing that way long before she broke into Indycars, and she also brought sponsorship to Andretti Green racing.

She should use whatever "talents" she has to promote herself, but personally I don’t need to see my drivers, male or female, in any state of undress. For a comparison of another attractive female driver, this one with little driving ability, please reference Milka Duno.

By: Vertigo

Vertigo — Tue, 22 Apr 2008 20:07:56 +0000

If they’re good enough then they should make it through, no matter what the distractions are. Any woman that is fast enough should be given equal chance to get up to F1 – surely that’s obvious to everyone?

By: Julian

Julian — Tue, 22 Apr 2008 10:30:48 +0000

If you’ve been to a race meeting lately, it might be apparent. I spent the weekend at the Hamilton 400 V8 Supercar round in NZ (which was excellent) and even though there are plenty of women fans, the place was wall to wall tits & ass. It seemed as if every sponsor had a team of skimpily clad girls wandering around, handing out schwag and getting their photos taken with (mostly) leering blokes. There were girls in bikinis up and down pit lane, on the grid and doing a show in the "family area".

If you were a young woman coming up through the karting ranks and you ran into that at the next level up, why would you want to have anything more to do with it? Surely you’d quit for a sport that’s a little more mature?

By: theRoswellite

theRoswellite — Tue, 22 Apr 2008 03:37:58 +0000

If anyone doubts the veracity of the Motegi win they should just ask the drivers and teams that she beat as to their level of effort. Something tells me they were making every effort possible to win.

Also, if anyone questions a womens ability to drive a race car based on physiological characteristics, they should attempt to determine what those characteristics really are.

I think you could certainly make a case for the following:
    -overall neural reaction time
    -a sense of balance
    -visual acuity
    -kinesthesis (the sensation of movement in various body
                            parts)
    -endurance
    -cognitive ability to multi-task

Are men dominant in these areas, I’m not sure.

By: Daniel

Daniel — Tue, 22 Apr 2008 02:11:12 +0000

Sam: yeah, that was an unfortunate coincidence, but Danica Patrick won a race as competitive as those Sebastien Bourdais won when IRL and Champcar were separated series, and I dare to say that Danica faced a stronger field on Motegi (Castroneves, Wheldon, Dixon, Kanaan, Andretti) than Sebastien did when he won his four straight titles…

Still, the paralel race at Long Beach was much worse, with many retiring teams making their only race entry of the season, to respect contractual interests and thus avoid a grid as empty as the 2005 Formula 1 United States Grand Prix…

So, she was a bit unlucky to grab her first win precisely in one of the "split races", but that doesn’t diminish her merit, as the chauvinistc Yahoo sports article tried to state…