Having done a few of these in my past, it’s usually up to the event organizer to explain what is not permissible during the drivers briefing. They’re supposed to explain what offenses will get you black flagged. There’s always some subjectivity to on-track offenses, so while he might have gotten a black flag for the…

Start vaping, get a flat-peak baseball cap and go to a drift event, track days are not for drifting, they never have been and they never will be. He may not like it, but nearly all track day organizers are unanimous about this sort of thing.

MRW reading these fucking comments

Friggin’ this. You’re never going to see more women in racing until we feel welcome there—and aren’t viewed as just “scenery.”

It’s very much a cause and effect thing. Are women not as common in racing because they like it less, or do they like it just as much but not enough to put up with the crap they get from the macho guys?

Mate this is the funniest thing I’ve read all weekend so I thank you for that. On the other hand I can tell you aren’t trolling because the words you vomited onto the keyboard are so dumb that I know you actually believe them. Aggressiveness isn’t always a good thing since a lot more races have been won from smart…

And when they release a video of the drivers wearing crop tops and dancing in slo-mo you will have a point. Equating people finding drivers attractive in the course of their jobs to having dancing girls at the track is just silly.

I like how she only became ‘shrill’ and ‘screeching’ to you when you found out she wasn’t male...

What are “masculine sports”?

But seriously, this is part of the problem. You’re assuming all drivers are men, because this is the systematic mindset about women and men in racing.

Drivers are definitely all men and men are the only good drivers

looking at the comments, The thing I think a lot of people are missing is that, while these particular women have made the decision to work as grid girls, their decision to do so, and the fact that they were recruiting for “grid girls” (I had a quick look around; most of the recruiters seemed to specifically state…

Love how you managed to try and squeeze in a comment about the writer’s looks into your word salad.*

I’m a straight guy, I like to look at attractive women as much as the next straight dude or lesbian woman, but come on man...it’s time for this sexist crap to stop. I don’t need to see scantily clad women with cars to enjoy cars.

Women care? Men who aren’t entirely myopic care?

Right, but if the grid girls aren’t getting more people to the track, why have them in the first place? And perhaps more practically, if they’re making female fans uncomfortable (and creating an environment favorable to the creeps), isn’t it better for the long term health of the sport to at least not overtly…

it sounds like the same old bullshit time and time again

In my personal experience, I’ve seen people more likely to exhibit change when the change comes from those in their own community.

For the #notallmen running rampant in these comments:

“I know that these things aren’t done intentionally, or with malice. I know that for many, it seemed an innocuous enough shirt. But that doesn’t negate the fact that this kind of thing is Not Okay and does more harm than good.”