Klon wrote:Captain Hammer wrote:Except that she isn't good enough, and would struggle endlessly - which would end in discrediting the idea of women in Formula 1.
The idea is already discredited, otherwise we would have more than five female F1-Fahrer (I had to use German there, I couldn't let that beautiful alliteration splip past) in the history of our sport, furthermore rookies struggle always, so unless that woman gets put in a top car from the outlet, female drivers are always going to hurt their cause following your logic so ... there is no hope for female race drivers at all.
Love the alliteration! But yeah, your point has validity. After all, we have already gone nearly 20 years since Amati's failed attempts, the longest in the sport's history without a woman trying (de Filippis in the late 1950s, Lella Lombardi and Davina Galica in the mid-1970s, Desire Wilson in 1980, and Giovanna Amati in 1992. The mid- to late- 1970s seemed to be the heyday, despite the influx of female drivers elsewhere recently, particularly in IndyCar.
And Captain, Milka Duno, as you said, is already not good enough, and people know that - they are not going to discredit all female drivers by her performance. That would be like discrediting all Japanese drivers by Yuji Ide's performances in the Super Aguri...
