Women in F1?

[mat777]

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2129213/Fe...

Cue all the commentators who will no doubt start trotting out lines about "the first female F1 driver on the grid" without doing any research to realise there have been several before...

But anyway.. who reckons she'll be good? Rubbish? Average?

[davepoth]

mat777 said:

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2129213/Fe...

Cue all the commentators who will no doubt start trotting out lines about "the first female F1 driver on the grid" without doing any research to realise there have been several before...

But anyway.. who reckons she'll be good? Rubbish? Average?

A very odd series of events need to take place before she would take to the grid for Williams. Possibly involving a coup in Venezuela.

[Agem]

I seem to recall one driving in the late 70's early 80's..Dessi someone. Rather "Bloke" looking female as i recall. I rather hope that that woman from Indycar might have come.
Mike

[E30M3SE]

Nepotism is fantastic for some,

http://www.pistonheads.com/gassing/topic.asp?h=0&a...

[Fast Fuse]

Agem said:

I seem to recall one driving in the late 70's early 80's..Dessi someone
Mike

Desire Wilson? Won a non-championship race at Brands Hatch IIRC...

[mrmr96]

mat777 said:

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2129213/Fe...

Cue all the commentators who will no doubt start trotting out lines about "the first female F1 driver on the grid" without doing any research to realise there have been several before...

But anyway.. who reckons she'll be good? Rubbish? Average?

She's sleeping with the boss... just sayin'

mail said:

The decision had to be approved by the Williams board, of which Wolff's husband Toto is a member

Edited by mrmr96 on Saturday 14th April 11:47

[Motorrad]

There are already plenty of women in F1.

Wearing skimpy outfits on the grid, working as administrators, in hospitality and many other very, very valuable roles. Well done ladies!

[davepoth]

Motorrad said:

There are already plenty of women in F1.

Wearing skimpy outfits on the grid, working as administrators, in hospitality and many other very, very valuable roles. Well done ladies!

Not forgetting Monisha Kaltenborn who runs Sauber.

[DiscoColin]

mat777 said:

But anyway.. who reckons she'll be good? Rubbish? Average?

We'll never know - she is not there to race. However, if the question was speculative: 4 points from 6 years in DTM points to her being quite some way behind Di Resta (or for that matter McLaren test driver Gary Paffett).

[Scuderia2112]

Until they have the balls to give one a race seat, I call publicity stunts (I think Marussia did something similar a few weeks ago).

There seems to be a lot more female drivers coming up through the lower leagues though so it can't be too long until we get a decent one.

[uk_vette]

Who's that girl German "ring" driver that Clarkson fancies?

Perhaps she could be a good bet for an F1 seat?

vette

[killsta]

uk_vette said:

Who's that girl German "ring" driver that Clarkson fancies?

Perhaps she could be a good bet for an F1 seat?

vette

Sabine somethingorother

[Life Saab Itch]

uk_vette said:

Who's that girl German "ring" driver that Clarkson fancies?

Perhaps she could be a good bet for an F1 seat?

vette

She isn't even that good in VLN races.

Not top tier.

[DiscoColin]

Life Saab Itch said:

She isn't even that good in VLN races.

Not top tier.

At the 'ring or in general? More like past her prime if you were to ask me - she has after all won the 24 hours twice (albeit some years ago now), had a podium in 2008 and was still top 10 last year. So certainly useful, but being in her 40s means that she will never be an option for single seaters and there certainly ought to be younger drivers now capable of comfortably beating her. A few people that I respect the opinion of have also told me that away from the 'ring which she knows so well she isn't so great so as a general point I am not going to argue with you.

The top female German drivers that I could name are all way too old to get into F1 though (Claudia Hurtgen, Ellen Lohr and Dakar specialist Jutta Kleinschmidt are all 40+) - are there any coming through that might make the grade?

[freedman]

Fast Fuse said:

Desire Wilson? Won a non-championship race at Brands Hatch IIRC...

Aurora British F1

[williamp]

oddly in the more oppresses 1920s and 30s there were lots more professional and successful women in top flight motorsport. No Formula 1 back then, but deivers like Kay Petre were successful and well known to the public

[Vocal Minority]

Daily Fail said:

Gorgeous Susie Wolff has signed with Williams and will initially take on the training role.

Good old Daily Mail. Patronising as ever.

[covboy]

Not forgetting the Italian contingent


Lella Lombardi and Giovanna Amatti (sp)

[Troy Bayleaf]

I think the Dutch girl Beitske Visser could have potential. She did well in the 500HP Praga R4S in a one off race for her sponsor in the Dutch Supercar Challenge last year.
She's in single seat racing now doing the Adac Formel Masters Championship.

[robmlufc]

Alice Powell has just signed with Status in GP3, will be interesting to see how she does. Seems pretty talented.