F1 is much less physical than the olympics and the car performance matters more than the driver to some degree. Of course most women in european single seaters haven’t done particularly well, but I don’t think it’s for lack of talent among women, but lack of awareness that they could pursue F1. I feel like those with…

While its good to see a woman getting a chance in F1, I hope that she is ready for it. The last thing you need is for someone who maybe isn’t skilled or experienced enough to do well in a test session, and then inadvertently play to Jorda’s narrative that women simply aren’t capable.

Cool! I only looked back to GP3 so I missed that. That being said, her lack of success in GP3 isn’t going to get her a race drive no matter how much backing she has. Remember, even Maldonado was a GP2 champ. Stroll was an F3 champ and won two other titles before that (though I think Stroll is better than people give…

She’s better than Jorda, which is not a very high standard. She didn’t score points on her GP3 debut while her DAMS teammate Jack Aitken finished 5th in the championship with like 140. Debut seasons are somewhat excusable, but in here second season, she beat one of her teammates in Bruno Baptista, but on Dan Ticktum’s…

Perhaps up until the 720S. That looks massively different from the 12C/650/675 series of car. Even the 570 is somewhat different.

Ah, right, I agree with that. I thought it was a F1 candidate suggestion since the article was about Jorda saying women are incapable of driving in F1. That being said, the capability of drivers in other series don’t necessarily correlate directly with their ability in european single seaters and F1.

Exactly! Maldonado, Haryanto, Stroll, Sirotkin, Ericsson, the list goes on. Clearly they hold a performance deficit to more “qualified drivers” but their money smooths that over. Which is why I think F1 teams at the moment genuinely do not see any options for a female driver in the near future.

See above, she’s too old for F1. People are wondering when established champions like Alonso and Raikkonen are going to retire, and she’s in their age group.

The problem is, she’s probably too old for an F1 team to take a gamble on her. Plus, she started karting at 15, and went down the GT route, which rarely ever leads to F1. With the high standards of today’s crop of F1 drivers, you’d need to start karting at like 5-7 years old, and get into single seating car racing by…

Huh... dolphins? Trump? Female racing drivers? I’m so lost...

I don’t think lack of opportunity is the issue. Like I mentioned in a long post earlier, a female driver would be a marketing coup for whatever F1 team can offer even a day of testing, or an FP session. The publicity and potential sponsorship would gloss over a performance deficit, if it exists. I just genuinely do…

I disagree with practically everything Alanis says, since its often one-sided, biased, emotionally charged tirades, but the argument from both Jorda and many on this comments section that women are physically incapable of driving F1 cars is false.

The point isn’t how much it costs, or hiring existing industry people to do it. The point is they are/in the process of literally building an entire production line from scratch for a dramatically different product than anything before it, in numbers that is different from anything they’ve done before. Its not like…

Why does the Acura have these fender flares? Is it a secret rear-wheel drive sports sedan? Probably not.

Definitely an interesting car compared to some of the others. Especially that nose. Would be nice to see them fighting for more than last place this year. That being said, the aero package in general seems to be a little more basic than any car but the Haas so far. Hopefully both of them bring much more evolved…

Dude that’s some serious horseshit. No manufacturer would purposely design a shoddy autonomous mode that wobbles between the lanes just to say “Ha, just making sure you’re paying attention.” There’s nothing relaxing about an autonomous mode if you are afraid its not going to work properly. You are literally…

“Because I would never buy one could never afford one”

Just a counterpoint to Thomas Donahue’s point:

I’m pretty sure that CH’s persona is fabricated, and I agree its pretty unnecessary. I don’t know why they felt they needed a dick as one of the personalities. He shines much more in his own road car reviews, and in his interactions with the other two in the films.

Chris Harris is the best automotive presenter out there. He is a amateur racing driver who is properly fast, can slide about, and knows his shit about cars. The only thing in new TG I don’t like is that they’ve given him a sort of kill-joy dick persona, which is totally unnecessary, and when you see the actual moments…