Why take my word for it when you could take the word of an actual female race car driver:
And yet they have, and that clip forgets a couple of key points.
F3 and F2 cars don't have power steering, F1 cars do.
Indy Cars don't have power steering, are close to the same level of g, and has had numerous women actively compete in it (but this point has already been raised twice, and ignored by you twice).
I don’t think many of you actually understand the real forces that are put on your body in an F1 car. Sustained 6g lateral forces, every lap, on high speed turns. 5g’s in braking zones, every lap. 2-3g’s of accelerating force… out of every turn… lap, after lap, after lap. I could pretty much guarantee that every single person on this forum wouldn’t be able to handle the forces a F1 car puts on them for a full 90 minute race, let alone 10 minutes.
I've driven Formula cars, so yes I understand.
Not to mention that the above requires fitness and endurance, not raw strength.
You may look at the male drivers and think, “oh damn, that guy is scrawny as hell. I could kick his ass.” You have no comprehension of the physical demands his body has to go through during an F1 race. You may look at someone like Louis Hamilton and think, “he’s not that big”. Take a guess at what his neck size is. You’re wrong. It’s 18 ****ing inches! It’s that big because the G-forces he experiences in the car are trying to rip his damn head off.
Look it's a strawman argument.
Now, y’all seem to think that women can do anything a man can do. I don’t dispute that. If you want to talk extremes, both men and women have summited Everest. Both men and women have gone in to space. Both men and women have swam the English Channel. These are all incredible feats of strength and endurance. Something I will never do. I tip my hat to all of them.
And yet...
But we are talking about F1. The absolute peak of racing.
That's a separate and debatable point.
I made the tennis analogy with Serena Williams because it was the greatest female tennis player of all time recognizing the fact that she would get destroyed by a fairly good, but not the best, male competitor. Best female tennis player ever vs. a very good male tennis player getting destroyed. Her words, not mine.
Guess you missed the news flash.
Im not here to downplay women. I think women are pretty damn awesome, but there are only 20 positions available for the entirety of THE WORLD to get a seat in F1. Considering F1 costs an insane amount of money just to show up every week, if you aren’t winning you are losing. Not just losing races, but losing sponsorships and revenue to keep your team going. You need to be, quite literally, “the best in the world” to be on an F1 team. The best of over 8 billion people in the world. Even a marginal underperformance could get you kicked off a team because I guarantee there are hundreds of other people who are itching to take your spot.
The existence of pay drivers in F1 utterly dispels that.
Are you claiming that no one in a lower formula is on a par with Stroll? Or that at the time, Mazipin was one of the best 20 formula drivers on the planet?
Your point holds true for the top 3 teams; in the other 14 slots, money is a much more important factor.
Would I like to see a woman in F1? I guess. Honestly, it has no impact on my life, but sure why not. Will she be up to the task and perform as well as the men and be competitive? Based on the statistics, it’s not looking good. There have only been 5 women in all of F1’s history and only one of them ever scored points in a race.
Now go back and rescore them with a modern points system.
The last woman in F1 was in 1992.
Nope.
She didn’t qualify for any of the races.
And Damon Hill failed to qualify in 6 out of 8 races when he replaced her in the same car.
Odd that you missed that context.
F1 doesn’t discriminate against women being in the sport. Women can be in F1 if they can perform. But teams need drivers who can perform.
They need money more, particularly outside the top teams.
That aside, the programmes they have put in place to address the imbalance show that they are very well aware that discrimination exists, and are working to change that (which implies they are aware the sport and some of the audience still does dsiscriminate).
I don’t have an issue with a man and women directly competing against each other, but the question was weather a woman could be competitive against a man in F1. This, of course, assumes that both drivers are at the peak of performance in their field. Much like Serena Williams was at the peak of performance in her field. To that, my answer is no and it simply has to do with the physicality and endurance required by the car in a race.
And yet you fail to address the participants of similar forms of motorsport in terms of physical requirements and fall back to handwaving, strawman arguments, and avoiding addressing actual comparisons..
