Is it not about time there was female drivers in the F1?
Yes it’s time but I don’t see how a woman could rise through the regular ranks that is the breeding ground for F1 drivers. They usually come from the carting world in Europe. There is still a tremendous barrier for women to be accepted there or even for the desire of women there to compete and go for it. F1 is still a macho world. There are women making inroads behind the scenes with some in the engineering sector. Diane Holl is a senior member of John Barnard’s Ferrari Design & Development team in Guildford and has been designing with Barnard since he set up Ferrari GTO in the late 1980s. Ferrari also now has a woman in its engine department at Maranello, fluid dynamics engineer Morena Ferrari (no relation to Enzo) while Benetton also has a lady technician Dina Clark in its electronic department. The best known of the female F1 technicians is Elf’s Valerie Jorquera, who checks and analyzes all Elf’s fuels and lubricants at the circuits. Must be a boffin, everyone thinks. Katherine Leg
