Formula 1 creates F1 Academy series for women racers.
You don't have to be particularly observant to notice that there are no woman drivers on the Formula 1 grid. The last woman to compete in an F1 grand prix was Lella Lombardi, who last raced at the 1976 Austrian GP. Even in our current, supposedly more-enlightened era, there doesn't appear to be any woman on a path to an F1 seat in the near future, and there aren't many in feeder series like F3 and F2.
The series says that F1 Academy is not intended to replace the current most prominent open-wheel series for woman drivers, the W Series. Instead, F1 Academy is positioned as a feeder to the W Series along with F3, F2, and F1. Bruno Michel, CEO of Formula Motorsports Limited, the company that manages F3 and F2, will run the F1 Academy. In a statement he said"Our goal is to see female drivers on the F3 grid in the next two to three years, and for them to quickly challenge for points and podiums. The aim is to increase the field in the near future, because we hope that this category will inspire more young girls to compete in motorsport at the highest of levels.
One also can't help but ask if F1 Academy addresses the issue of women's representation with enough urgency. If, as Michel states, the goal is simply to get some women on the F3 grid in the next few years, that means we won't see many in F2, let alone F1, for years to come. Surely F1, bigger than its ever been, can pony up the extra €150,000 for drivers too, knocking down a huge barrier of entry, even if that barrier is a fraction of the cost of competing in a comparable series.
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