At the risk of furthering the ridiculous comparison between F1 and F-16s, I would hypothesise that steering a fighter jet (or even simply turning your head to look) against the plane’s own turning forces takes certain brute strength as well.

F1 does have power steering. Upper body strength isn’t quite as vital there as it is in Indycar, but being able to withstand the cornering loads still requires great fitness and a very strong neck.

My argument is that women are certainly capable of attaining the physical strength needed for competing at the highest levels of motorsport. I’m pretty sure that someone who’s trained as hard as people like Jessie Graff, Meagan Martin and others could withstand the forces of a formula one car or anything else. The…

Driving a racecar with no power assists over 305 kilometers while being repeatedly subjected to gravitational forces exceeding 7G’s in corners all while wearing a hot racing suit and helmet is actually very physically demanding.

Utter bullshit. Have you ever MET an F1 driver? As in, seen one in person? Shaken their hand?

The athleticism required of an F1 driver are more about endurance, concentration and reflexes than momentary power output. The differences between the athletic potential of men and women are much more about the latter than the former.

This is a take so completely uninformed about human physiology, F1 drivers, or F1 cars as to frighten me that people have liked it.

I feel like some of the women who are very into fitness (crossfit, American Nija Warrior, etc.) would be very good examples that gender means nothing as far as being capable of the physical strength and endurance to drive an F1 car (or any other vehicle) capably. Then it just boils down to skill, luck, and some aid…

“especially in light of the fact that investigations by three other Congressional committees, and investigations in 13 states including a Grand Jury in Texas, have all shown that Planned Parenthood did nothing wrong.”

The outcry over Danica Patrick’s “unfair weight advantage” when she broke into Indycar was.... not mild. A surprising and irritating number of drivers brought it up. This will keep coming up, undoubtedly.

Except this isn’t actual data, just opinion. Women have better endurance in these circumstances. Women are shorter, and their heart is closer to their brain, which is why they make such great fighter pilots under hard g-forces. This also puts less strain on their neck and back under these circumstances. It’s also why…

This is asking the wrong question. The question is not:

particularly because, based on experience, it feels ambiguous at best whether it will continue beyond the new year

Well, except that F1 cars do have power steering, and their clutches are actuated with a hand control, often on the backside of the steering wheel. Other than starting the race, or leaving the pits, they don’t use the clutch as the shifts are all done hydraulically.

Yes. Compared to the sports she listed.

They add weight to the cars. A smaller driver could be a slight advantage by allowing more ballast weight to be strategically placed, but that would be negligible.

This lady is not the right one for the job, but she seems to be the right one for the FIA.

“Nowadays you see women competing in their own championships in most sports: football, tennis, skiing - you name it - and in none of these championships are men and women competing against each other. So the question is: why not have a F1 world championship for women?”

Me sitting down to watch Big Little Lies season two even though we know about all the big and little lies already:

Me too. And I’d love these movies even more if they’d give the raptors the quills and plumage we know they had.