I’ve been following F1 since 2011 and in that time there has only been a single black driver, Lewis Hamilton, on the grid and virtually no female drivers. There’s also only ever been one American driver, Alexander Rossi, during that time as well. There have been female team principals like Claire Williams and Monesha…

Physical fitness absolutely matters in motorsports. I do High Performance Driving Events (HPDEs) in a normal sports car and at the end of the weekend my body is pretty beat up. I’m not even going half as fast as these F1 cars.

The Ferguson study linked in the post reports no significant difference in physiological strain between male and female race drivers. Of course, the study only looked at professional drivers, so there is a selection bias that precludes us from extrapolating this result to men and women in the general population.…

Anyone not aware of the incredible French rally driver Michele Mouton needs to head over to her Wikipedia page, tout suite! What a bad-ass...

Still, she said she keeps a mental list of people to avoid in the paddock, which she passes down to incoming women employees.

they’re still mad that a Black man dominated the sport and y’all surprised that they don’t want to let in women?

Access (including cultural barriers to entry), money, and total pool size to select drivers from.

Anything that helps those will yield the necessary results.

There’s likely an element of that, but I think the bigger problem to overcome first is the perception that’s a problem without testing the fact. I’m not saying it isn’t true, but I don’t think women drivers ever get the benefit of the doubt to test the theory. As the article points out, F1 takes what can…

Just because there isn’t a sign that says, “No women allowed,” doesn’t mean there aren’t barriers.

They’ve had sequential manuals (only use clutch at the start and it’s a lever on the steering wheel) for over 20 years

I would assume that not all, but enough, of the men involved in racing would do everything in their power to prevent a woman from breaking out in the sport because, in their minds, it would “feminize” auto racing or they simply don’t want to be seen “losing to a girl.”

WHITE WOMAN DEFENDS UNFAIR POLICING PRACTICES AND BELIEVES DRACONIAN CRIMINAL JUSTICE SYSTEM IS FAIR
- NEWS AT 11!

Sajak’s been a right-wing weirdo for years.

I mean, as someone who was 11 in 1999, Wild Wild West, Phantom Menace, and The Mummy would have been the TOP of my list (Of these, The Mummy is unironically good and I’m still always happy to watch it.)

What’s funny is his Galaxy Quest character felt the same way about that role as Rickman seemed to about Snape.

“By Grabthar’s hammer, these children can’t act”

I think the leads in the Harry Potter series have acknowledged publicly that their acting in the early films is pretty bad. I don’t think that’s a knock against them, per se. If you look back at the stuff you were doing at 12, you likely were not doing that stuff at an adult level of quality, and don’t feel bad about…

The other excerpts in the Guardian show him softening toward Radcliffe and even occasionally meeting with him outside of shooting the films. They seem to have had a mentor-mentee relationship by the end. It does not appear he liked Watson much at all. He writes that he read in Vogue while receiving medical treatment…

Snape isn’t controversial. He’s very simple.

There is such political naivety in the US that it only takes one image of five Palestinians dancing in the street to obliterate the bigger picture.