Re: Female Racing Drivers
Posted: Thu Aug 20, 2015 8:46 am
de Silvestro to do Bathurst: here
How can anybody be so non self aware!Banana Man wrote:Carmen Jorda tweeted an article yesterday claiming "F1 is a mans world, you have to fight to progress." The irony being that if she was a man she wouldn't be anywhere near a GP3 seat, let alone F1.
I think she's probably very self aware, but she can hardly come out and say "Of course i only got the GP3 and Lotus link because I'm an attractive model".mikeyg123 wrote:How can anybody be so non self aware!Banana Man wrote:Carmen Jorda tweeted an article yesterday claiming "F1 is a mans world, you have to fight to progress." The irony being that if she was a man she wouldn't be anywhere near a GP3 seat, let alone F1.
In which case she would not say "F1 is a mans world, you have to fight to progress". She would have just said something else in the interview.Lentulus wrote:I think she's probably very self aware, but she can hardly come out and say "Of course i only got the GP3 and Lotus link because I'm an attractive model".mikeyg123 wrote:How can anybody be so non self aware!Banana Man wrote:Carmen Jorda tweeted an article yesterday claiming "F1 is a mans world, you have to fight to progress." The irony being that if she was a man she wouldn't be anywhere near a GP3 seat, let alone F1.
Why would she say something else? When talking about how hard it can be for a female racing driver, what she said makes perfect sense for her to say and, if anything, proves her self awareness even further.mikeyg123 wrote:In which case she would not say "F1 is a mans world, you have to fight to progress". She would have just said something else in the interview.Lentulus wrote:I think she's probably very self aware, but she can hardly come out and say "Of course i only got the GP3 and Lotus link because I'm an attractive model".mikeyg123 wrote:How can anybody be so non self aware!Banana Man wrote:Carmen Jorda tweeted an article yesterday claiming "F1 is a mans world, you have to fight to progress." The irony being that if she was a man she wouldn't be anywhere near a GP3 seat, let alone F1.
Sounds like she is just trying to play the victim to cover up for her obvious lack of talentmikeyg123 wrote:In which case she would not say "F1 is a mans world, you have to fight to progress". She would have just said something else in the interview.Lentulus wrote:I think she's probably very self aware, but she can hardly come out and say "Of course i only got the GP3 and Lotus link because I'm an attractive model".mikeyg123 wrote:How can anybody be so non self aware!Banana Man wrote:Carmen Jorda tweeted an article yesterday claiming "F1 is a mans world, you have to fight to progress." The irony being that if she was a man she wouldn't be anywhere near a GP3 seat, let alone F1.
Great news on the one hand, depressing on the other.specdecible wrote:Renee Gracie & Simona De Silvestro first all female team to race at Bathurst for the first time in 20 years this weekend. It's both their first time racing on this circuit and first time De Silvestro has driven a V8 Supercar.
http://www.abc.net.au/news/2015-10-07/b ... am/6833872
There's also been a little bit of controversy as another driver refereed to the team as the "P***y Wagon" during an interview. He has been fined $25,000 and has issued a public apology.
http://www.news.com.au/sport/motorsport ... 7562446780
I've seen Renee race in the early stage of her career in Porsche's, she's ok nothing too special but like I said that was the early stage of her career. As for Reynolds and his remark it was meant to be tongue in cheek as apparently he gets on quite well with Renee but he went a bit far and the officials clamped down on it pretty hard. There have been some "older" paddock members that have been doing some more "Politically Correct" criticizing and I guess the organizers wanted to put an end to it with fining Reynolds as an example. That's my take on it anyway.RaggedMan wrote:Great news on the one hand, depressing on the other.specdecible wrote:Renee Gracie & Simona De Silvestro first all female team to race at Bathurst for the first time in 20 years this weekend. It's both their first time racing on this circuit and first time De Silvestro has driven a V8 Supercar.
http://www.abc.net.au/news/2015-10-07/b ... am/6833872
There's also been a little bit of controversy as another driver refereed to the team as the "P***y Wagon" during an interview. He has been fined $25,000 and has issued a public apology.
http://www.news.com.au/sport/motorsport ... 7562446780
I've been a fan of Simona's for ages and hope the other lady is a decent driver so that they can combine for a good showing.
The other guy just needs to be smarter than that. Even if he is t enlightened enough to see the world around him changing he should know to keep that sort of stuff to when he's sitting around yucking up with similarly emotionally stilted friends.
Thanks, I'll keep an eye on her progress. I notice the F4 grid has a few female drivers this year, I'll add them.ChrisA101 wrote:Surprised there's not been any updates on Sophia Floersch's first F4 races, seems quite promising to me - her last lap at Oscherslebe sans rear wing was spectacular! She's writing a column for Motorsport.com following each weekend which is worth a look:
Sophia Floersch: Fighting like a lioness on F4 debut (Oschersleben)
Sophia Floersch: A weekend of what-ifs at Sachsenring
Some footage of that raceChrisA101 wrote:her last lap at Oscherslebe sans rear wing was spectacular!
Indeed.No idea now relatively competitive the teams are in FE, but definitely not the result to get her single-seat career back on track.Banana Man wrote:Out of all the drivers who completed the full season in Fe, Simona finished last I'm afraid.
The chassis are all near enough identical with differing performance from the drive train.DOLOMITE wrote:Indeed.No idea now relatively competitive the teams are in FE, but definitely not the result to get her single-seat career back on track.Banana Man wrote:Out of all the drivers who completed the full season in Fe, Simona finished last I'm afraid.
So how did they go?specdecible wrote:I've seen Renee race in the early stage of her career in Porsche's, she's ok nothing too special but like I said that was the early stage of her career. As for Reynolds and his remark it was meant to be tongue in cheek as apparently he gets on quite well with Renee but he went a bit far and the officials clamped down on it pretty hard. There have been some "older" paddock members that have been doing some more "Politically Correct" criticizing and I guess the organizers wanted to put an end to it with fining Reynolds as an example. That's my take on it anyway.RaggedMan wrote:Great news on the one hand, depressing on the other.specdecible wrote:Renee Gracie & Simona De Silvestro first all female team to race at Bathurst for the first time in 20 years this weekend. It's both their first time racing on this circuit and first time De Silvestro has driven a V8 Supercar.
http://www.abc.net.au/news/2015-10-07/b ... am/6833872
There's also been a little bit of controversy as another driver refereed to the team as the "P***y Wagon" during an interview. He has been fined $25,000 and has issued a public apology.
http://www.news.com.au/sport/motorsport ... 7562446780
I've been a fan of Simona's for ages and hope the other lady is a decent driver so that they can combine for a good showing.
The other guy just needs to be smarter than that. Even if he is t enlightened enough to see the world around him changing he should know to keep that sort of stuff to when he's sitting around yucking up with similarly emotionally stilted friends.
Covalent wrote:Is she of the bjj Gracie family?
Ah, nevermind thenSnakeSVT2003 wrote:Covalent wrote:Is she of the bjj Gracie family?
I thought the same, to be honest, but she's an Aussie.
I think you know the answer.nixxxon wrote:I would like to see if she's really worth the job or just another privileged woman that gets there just for being a woman
It's a pretty simple answer if you look at it objectively. In 2016, she was a 23-year-old rookie in GP3 and managed a best result of 10th (twice), ending the season with two points. Perhaps it was the car? Well her two team-mates at Arden finished 4th and 5th in the standings, collecting three wins and 13 podium appearances between them. Before that she had three years in F3, the best of which was 2014 where she scored 29 points. However, in 2015 she was again completely outclassed by her team-mates, both of whom were rookies. They scored 203 and 65.5 points respectively whilst she failed to score a single point, despite having two years more experience than both.nixxxon wrote:I would like to see if she's really worth the job or just another privileged woman that gets there just for being a woman
As much as I do agree, there is one positive to it. While people like us can look at her career to this date and decide that she's not done anywhere near enough to have earned that chance on talent alone, would a seven-year-old girl watching F1 because her dad watches it see that? She would simply see a female driver as part of an F1 team, and perhaps that inspires someone that age to want to try go karting. Maybe that is what helps actually inspire a female driver who, ten years from now, gets into F1 because of talent and results.DOLOMITE wrote:It's frustrating - to see a female driver to reach a point so many drivers aspire to, but having achieved so little to justify it. But as was clear even with Susie Wolff, the role is not one of third/reserve race driver so where's the harm.
No harm. Just a bit of a farce, rightly pointed out.DOLOMITE wrote:But as was clear even with Susie Wolff, the role is not one of third/reserve race driver so where's the harm.
It denies the same opportunity to somebody who has actually earned it?DOLOMITE wrote:It's frustrating - to see a female driver to reach a point so many drivers aspire to, but having achieved so little to justify it. But as was clear even with Susie Wolff, the role is not one of third/reserve race driver so where's the harm.
An opportunity to participate in PR - let's face it - whatever has been said in Press Releases about this appointment, we all know this is not a reserve role. She will never be seen in a real F1 session. I'd imagine that anyone with realistic aspirations of driving in F1 - Male or Female - will not be looking for this type of role.mikeyg123 wrote:It denies the same opportunity to somebody who has actually earned it?DOLOMITE wrote:It's frustrating - to see a female driver to reach a point so many drivers aspire to, but having achieved so little to justify it. But as was clear even with Susie Wolff, the role is not one of third/reserve race driver so where's the harm.
True.Herb wrote:An opportunity to participate in PR - let's face it - whatever has been said in Press Releases about this appointment, we all know this is not a reserve role. She will never be seen in a real F1 session. I'd imagine that anyone with realistic aspirations of driving in F1 - Male or Female - will not be looking for this type of role.mikeyg123 wrote:It denies the same opportunity to somebody who has actually earned it?DOLOMITE wrote:It's frustrating - to see a female driver to reach a point so many drivers aspire to, but having achieved so little to justify it. But as was clear even with Susie Wolff, the role is not one of third/reserve race driver so where's the harm.
I've always somewhat wondered why so many more women are competitive in drag racing than any other field of motorsport. Certainly despite the G-forces those things are generating they don't seem to have any troubles physically.SnakeSVT2003 wrote:Leah Pritchett won this weekend in the NHRA Top Fuel class. She has now won the first two events of the season, which hasn't happened in the Top Fuel class in 20 years! She beat another woman, Brittany Force, in the final on Sunday.
Yes I think they should at least demonstrate some high-level talent. Otherwise, as you say, people are going to look at them as tokens and other, perhaps more talented female drivers coming up behind will have the weight of even more prejudice behind them.mikeyg123 wrote:True.Herb wrote:An opportunity to participate in PR - let's face it - whatever has been said in Press Releases about this appointment, we all know this is not a reserve role. She will never be seen in a real F1 session. I'd imagine that anyone with realistic aspirations of driving in F1 - Male or Female - will not be looking for this type of role.mikeyg123 wrote:It denies the same opportunity to somebody who has actually earned it?DOLOMITE wrote:It's frustrating - to see a female driver to reach a point so many drivers aspire to, but having achieved so little to justify it. But as was clear even with Susie Wolff, the role is not one of third/reserve race driver so where's the harm.
I'm not sure it does more good than harm though to have women put in token roles when they are not even close talent wise.
If it happens to often could it not start a stereotype of women being slow? Or even possibly create a level of resentment towards female drivers that these opportunity's are given to women who are not good enough?