Usually only mediocre men are afraid, because now there's more competition and they have to try. The study I always think back to is the one that shows that low skill players are often the most likely to hurl sexist insults at women in lobbies.
From everything I've seen and read; the main fitness requirement is being light, and operating the car under heavy G forces. Which is exactly the same as a fighter pilot. Which women have been doing very successfully for decades.
Alway speaking of averages in the following paragraph:
On average the reaction time of women is a bit slower than the one of men. But age plays quite a role as well, which doesnt seem to hinder Alonso or Bottas too much.
Strength is probably not a problem I guess, maybe female drivers have to train a bit more?
Else women have the advantage to men as they are smaller and lighter.
But of course the world top drivers arent average, so the question is a lot harder.
There are very fast reacting women, small and light men, so no one knows.
Maybe the solution is to treat everyone the same and not hinder women just because of their gender. Then we will see who wins.
But when the equal chance is reached, no one knows.
In reality, we don't know. That is very hard to study. But we know from other physically demanding competitions that men and women don't compete together. And F1 is very demanding.
It's really not, we have stopwatches and cars already.
But we know from other physically demanding competitions that men and women don't compete together.
This is motorsport newb, go watch golf.
And F1 is very demanding.
Yes, and several women, including Susie Wolf, have driven F1 cars just fine. There is currently a female racer in F3 and F2. There have been in F1 as well.
There is nothing stopping women from racing in F1 except prejudice.
They race in Indycar, The Le Mans Series, Super Formula, and dozens of other race series.
I believe you misunderstood my point, by all means celebrate having representation in Motorsports. I was talking about the comments treating that as somehow ruining Motorsports. For me as a person very well represented all over the place it doesnt hurt me to see a woman drive a car, but for the little girls in the world that dream of a racing career it could be the difference in pursuing it or just giving up due to social pressures.
I'm going to chalk this right up there with the women who graduated Ranger school, went to the moon, sailed around the world, and are so much better at driving safely every day, they get lower insurance rates.
At this point being a misogynist says more about them than about the women.
They (plural) because it's a team of three drivers per endurance race. These days usually Michelle Gatting, Rahel Frey, and Sarah Bovy. Doriane Pin is pursuing open wheel formula racing (still with Iron Dames which is a sister team to Prema) but she doesn't seem to jive with that. I hope she comes back to WEC next season. Fingers crossed it'll be in a bright pink Lamborghini SC63 or Porsche 963 with Proton but it's unlikely now that she signed with Mercedes.
Oh sorry, I should have found a better way to say it. I wanted to gender it on purpose to make the point. They wouldn't complain if that sentence started with "He".