Well, "F1: The Academy by Netflix "has an interesting documentary on the issue. If this were 30 years ago, I would sort of agree with you. But in this day and age, it happens much sooner than later, I'm siding with the women here.
That is nonsense. You are acting like there hasn’t been female F1 drivers ever in the past nor F1 test drivers in recent times, nor women who have done full race tests. The sponsorship financial side alone will make it happen, the first female f1 driver in modern times will have a huge following, considering the number of women and girls now watching and buying into the sport. I agree it won’t be the likes of Chadwick or Pulling, but to say they haven’t been born yet shows a lack of understanding to who is coming through and what is being done in the background on this. Also to say none in the development series would be able to take on some of the recent drivers is a bit silly, especially seeing the poor quality of the pay to drive nepo babies that have been and gone, Sargent for example who only had 3 wins in 4 years of F3, Only 2 wins in F4 and still managed to have a career in f1 from 2022 to 2024. Mazepin with an even worse history before getting an F1 seat, let’s not even look at the likes of Haryanto, Maldonado, Badoer or further back Mazzacane etc.
Likely due to there being around 52 million F1 fans in America, an increase of more than 10% from 2024, while half of those supporters have followed the series in the last five years.
Sky does a good job ! 😂 omg they are fu*king useless even C4 do a better job on a 1/100 of the budget
Sounds good, but what about the tires? Quite heavy use of those.
Not to mentions the hundreds, if not thousands, of people plus equipment that have to be shipped/flown around the world to each event, private helicopters to get into the paddock, huge mobile server farms in the car park, run by diesel generators...
That’s good, but not the only aspect. Tire wear is a major source of microplastics in the environment.
I have grown to hate car world, pollution, fossil fuels, etc. etc. blah blah blah and ride a bike a lot and love public transit (East Coast US) but I have loved F1 and racing since 12 years old, slot cars, super modified racing in San Jose, fam friend was Joe Leonard (STP Indy turbo driver), Grand Prix (Paul Newman?), and so on. Go figure. I think F1 is. great film, yep, maybe niche but well-niched it is.
I have read the F1 E-Turbo boosts use ~ 800V to spin up instantly and that's super efficient use/consumption of fossil fuel. I think AUDI (for 1) has that in a civilian model - nope don't know which one.
Grand Prix was James Garner, and Steve McQueen was Le Mans. I re-watched Grand Prix earlier this year, after being reminded about it by the "And, colossally, that's history!" podcast from Matt Bishop and Richard Williams, two long time motor racing journalists and Matt also ran communications for McClaren and Aston Martin in the noughties and teens, so they know the big names of F1 personally, from the 60s on.
I hear ya, but I live in the suburbs of Raleigh, NC, and public transportation is pretty much non-existent. And riding bikes on these curvy backroads is a recipe for death. With that said, we have two EVs.
Interesting perspective. I suppose it's a matter of what you get used to. I live in California and normally watch on ESPN which is Sky F1's coverage and I really like the blend of Brundle, Crofty, Chandhock etc.. The image quality sucks.
This is a pretty bad take. F1 cars have power steering and have had it for some time. You need neck and core strength, excellent cardio, and one hell of a left leg for pressing the brake pedal. None of those are gating items for a woman driving an F1 car.
