Susie Wolff documentary

[Gazza M]

Really interesting documentary about Susie Wolff getting into F1... her voice is weird though, definitely Scottish with a touch of Swiss/German thrown in!

https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b01rk3bv/Driven_The_Fastest_Woman_in_the_World/
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[Efes123]

Yep, watched that last night and thought it was quite good. She was pretty shit in the German races though (too much pressure?), but she seemed to pull it out of the bag for the F1 test.
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[Frost]

Meh. she's just the same as the many other women who have been on the verge of getting into F1. She's alright but not good enough to be there on talent alone. Shes involved with the team as she brings a lot of sponsorship and fan interest. The second they find a half decent woman driver she gets shuffled up the ranks far quicker than her talent alone would drive her. eventually they end up in a car and are slow.
It's not their fault, and it's not the case that no woman is ever going to be competitive (Danica Patrick) but the odds are very much against the small number of women in motorsport ever being one of the best 22

[Rogerborg]

[Efes123]

The only other one I've heard of is old cyclops. I do think women will be at an automatic disadvantage due to the muscular requirement these days. You must need neck muscles of a bull to cope with the high Gs, the hit 6 Gs last weekend Isn't that pretty close to what astronauts get to?

EDIT: Wiki only lists 5 since 1958:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_female_Formula_One_drivers
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[Frost]

[lihp]

What also was worth mentioning, was that her husband is a director at Williams. Happens to the be the team that gave her a test!
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[Frost]

[Efes123]

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[Frost]

there is a reason, it's quite a big branch of mathematics called statistics. Say 1 in 1000 professional racing drivers are good enough for F1. Apply that to the 30 or so professional female drivers and there's a very good chance none will be good enough. My point wasn't that no woman could ever be good enough it was that a smaller selection to choose from is unlikely to deliver a top driver. It's clearly not a discrimination thing as clearly lots of people are very eager to have women in F1. Until there are more women in grass routes racing it won't happen.

[Efes123]

[Frost]

So you're claiming my logic is:
"because none of the 50 or so female racing drivers are good enough we can deduce that all women won't be good enough" ?

Because that's not at all what i was explaining. I said that insufficient numbers of women are racing drivers. This means that there will be few of sufficient talent to make it to F1 on the basis than only a very small percentage of anyone doing anything will be world class at it.

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Fuck me she is hot!
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[Efes123]