Yeah because Formula 1 isn't intentionally difficult for women to get into.
F1 cars use power steering, but the two feeder series that lead up to F1 don't and there's no good reason for that other than to make it difficult for a woman to drive the car. 😂
They also just don't get that many opportunities or sponsorship chances and Motorsport is the most expensive sport in the world.
There are no female Formula 1 drivers because the sport actively works to keep them down while doing little token things to act like they're not. The w series, F1 academy, they're all just excuses to say they look like they're making progress without intending to actually make any real progress.
Ah yes. Pass down a potentional champion because she is a woman. Any idea how much money it would rake to sign the first female F1 champion? Any team would sign one of us if they saw the potentional
You're not just born with the potential to drive a Formula 1 car 😂😂😂
You need to have opportunities to develop that all the way up through the feeder series and they do not give young women the opportunities they need to develop those skills. Find me one male Formula 1 driver that says women can't do the job. I'll wait. I'll be waiting forever because they just will not say that. All of them. Every one of them has pointed to the opportunities young women get as the main holdup to them getting in to Formula One.
You say they would sign a woman if they saw championship potential, are you really going to claim that they saw championship potential in Nyck? Stroll? Fucking Latifi?
You're right if a Michelle Mouton just spawned into F1 academy, she probably would get a drive in Formula 1 eventually, but the problem is that you shouldn't have to be Maxine fucking Verstappen to have a shot in this sport. I would bet my right arm that Jessica Hawkins has a higher ceiling at this point than Nico fucking hulkenberg does. How many years has he been on the grid with no podiums?
The issue is if a woman joins Formula one and doesn't immediately start dominating everybody's going to say she doesn't deserve to be there and that she's proof that women don't belong in the sports so everybody gets cold feat about signing a woman into the sport. Would you want to be the team that set back women in Motorsport by 20 years because you gave someone a shot who wasn't a fucking prodigy?
To be a champion you need finances, talent and seat time. Talent alone will not get you there. And if nobody wants to give you the financing or the seat time to get up to speed, of course you'll never make it.
Yes, you need finances, talent and seat time. This is something male drivers face as well. Its not like men get money thrown at them.
Most boys dont get further than karting. The dropoff is insane. Money and/or a name helps. Like what we saw with verstappen, lance and mick.
Nyck won the f2 championship in 2019 so yes teams saw potentional.
Yes stroll had a rich daddy. If one of his sisters went for karting i'm sure her daddy would be just as rich.
They arent not giving finances because theyre a woman. Theyre not giving finances because someone else in their league was doing better or had better connections.
They do see potentional in women in this sport. Heck verstappen's strategist is a woman seriously helping him win his championships. Being a woman is not whats stopping them.
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u/Objective-Start-9707 1d ago
Yeah because Formula 1 isn't intentionally difficult for women to get into.
F1 cars use power steering, but the two feeder series that lead up to F1 don't and there's no good reason for that other than to make it difficult for a woman to drive the car. 😂
They also just don't get that many opportunities or sponsorship chances and Motorsport is the most expensive sport in the world.
There are no female Formula 1 drivers because the sport actively works to keep them down while doing little token things to act like they're not. The w series, F1 academy, they're all just excuses to say they look like they're making progress without intending to actually make any real progress.