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We have them on race tracks here in Australia. Except ours are made out of polystyrene foam. So when a car hits them they explode/disintegrate into a millions pieces which always looks more spectacular than it really is.

“And that a lot of obvious jokes were probably made across the internet.”

because once they taste blood, they’re insatiable.

Iz da roar gon’ be on tv or interwebz?  

Ahem, I failed to notice a shooey photo accompanying this article. Surely this was nothing more than choosing which one of many pictures held up your ability to properly attach it.

Driving therapy is real. When the dark closes in, drive into the light.

Race car driver physiques are nowhere near as specialized as physiques for sports like football, basketball, short/long distance running, swimming etc. Obviously the drivers need to be in good physical condition, but it’s not a sport that needs a specific body type that would favor either gender. If you can’t…

Yeah, but what about the *other* females at a race? And just because they’re the minority is a shitty reason for allowing what amounts to a borderline hostile environment? If that was a valid argument, we’d still have segregration around.

F1 grid and grid girls are the result of widespread sexism. There aren’t any female drivers or many female Gearheads because they are excluded and discouraged from getting into cars in the first place. F1 can do more. And a good place to start would be to get rid of the grid girls.

Pageantry based on the physical objectification of the male gaze on the female form. No different than racial stereotypes in blackface or minstrel shows, just gender based instead of race.

If you can’t see that it’s fundamentally wrong, in YOUR mind, you’re the one that needs to change your way of thinking. And do the…

“To be clear: The grid girls were not the problem; the problem was men behaving badly.”

This is the dumbest fucking thing I have ever read, and you should be banned for life for foisting this idiotic statement on the rest of us.

You are on the internet... You can literally Google “pretty women” to look at. Or actually get with a pretty women in real life and stop living through race car drivers. Grid girls are a stupid tradition that needs to go. Very cringey

As a woman who drives at track days, I’m really not surprised, sadly. Track days have some of the nicest people in motorsports and also some of the biggest asshats.

I can’t help but raise a critical arched eyebrow at the men plaintively decrying the potential loss of something they can’t quite put a finger on. I’m still waiting to read an argument for keeping grid girls that doesn’t feature a misogynistic bleat of some sort beyond the blinkered “Tradition!” While it is utterly…

Also, I’ve had female friends attend track days as drivers (I can’t believe I have to clarify that they’re there to drive...) and yet, during the day, some guy walks up to them and asks if my friend can stand next to his car so he can take pictures. That’s creepy and disgusting. And it’s the toxic environment that has…

Some more fuel to the fire. This article is instructive: http://thegridgirls.com/2017/02/23/a-womans-role-in-motorsports/

As a trans man I would have thought you would have a better understanding.