Will there ever be a female F1 champ??

[f1king]

I dont see Fisher ever getting into F1, and I dont know of any other women trying not in America anyway, do you guys know of any??

 

[Dudley]

Unlikely. Danica Patrick would be the obvious choice, she finished 2nd in the Formula Ford Festival in 2000, an event know for being a good F1 feeder.

The winner of that race? A Mr Anthony Davidson. The gap on the last lap between the two teammates?

Not a lot.

 

[vat_man]

I seriously doubt I'll see it in my lifetime - there's just so few women in the lower echelons of open wheelers.

 

[f1king]

Yeah thats too bad.

 

[Pupik]

One day.
No way I could ever predict when, though.

There really isn't as great a percentage of female racing drivers as opposed to say, 15 years ago. It's about 1-2% among all categories that I'm aware of.

NASCAR, however, has a huge following with female racing fans, I've noticed. It will probably be the series that crowns the first female racing champ.

 

[f1king]

NASCAR hmmm, that would be kinda cool!

 

[alex_gt]

There'd be black flags everytime they broke a nail .. But seriously I think that the most that'll ever happen is a Womens racing Championship gets created.. But then again you never know?

 

[f1king]

I hope it happens in my lifetime.

 

[GilesGuthrie]

I would like it if a woman were to enter motorsport and really prove themselves, as Sarah Fisher seems to be doing in IRL, and Ellen Lohr did in the olden days of the original DTM.

 

[Talentless]

michele duno?

 

[toleman19]

I dont know why this would be so great. What would be the cool thing about a girl racing cars, Unless shes pretty too. Imagine if you will Jessica Alba was a racing driver, now we'er talking.

 

[alex_gt]

Female race drivers (as with the footballers) tend to be on the large side, we ain't gonna see no Pit Babes in the cockpit....Though it'd be great if we did :thumbsup:

Imagine in the pits:
Engineer: 'So what do you think of the settings :car: love'
Female Driver: 'Well I don't like the colour :cubist:? How about pink?'..

 

[-Fred-]

i don't see why there couldn't be a female F1 champ... the question isn't why, it's when!

Michele Mouton nearly won the WRC championship back in the Group B era, and there's a women (whose name i can't remember) that won the Paris Dakar Motorcycle class a few times too.

it's not like there aren't any good women race drivers out there!

 

[Talentless]

A german lady has won the car class, too.