2021 W Series Full Race | Red Bull Ring Race 1 

@@Buildxbeyond The reason there aren't more (or any) girls in F3, F2, F1 a the international level, is because they keep being told by people like you from the moment they start that it's a men's sport, and the few persistent enough to try anyway have even more people like you putting them down at every misstep, discouraging them if they don't immediately succeed, pointing it out as a sign of weakness and inferiority and cutting their funding (like what happened to most of the women racing here), instead of just encouraging them to get back to it and try again like they do with boys regardless of their results. Formula racing is about finesse and concentration and the drivers are fit, sure, but none of them are hulks, quite the contrary. The hulks don't make it to the highest level and those that do tend to be literally light weights compared to any other sport (except maybe horse racing). And the G's just take some physical training and getting used to. There are more and more women piloting fighter jets at the highest levels in the air forces of many countries---because they are finally being given the opportunity. I think they can handle the G forces of formula cars. Women have every quality to succeed, what they are lacking is the will and support of the men in the sport. For example, this series is supposed to be under the patronage of F1 Management but then why is it not called Formula W? It can't be watched on the F1 TV online platform, and they rarely if ever mention it in the F1, F2, F3 race broadcasts (I found it because I've been continuously impressed by the quality of Alice Powell's color commentary for the F2 and F3 races over the last couple of years and finally looked her up). It feels like F1 Management is doing the bare minimum to support this. I hope this series becomes the start of new generations of female racers that will be competitive in regular F3, F2, and eventually F1. I'm a guy and a long time fan of Formula racing, and I don't care who's in the car, I see some excellent and exciting driving here. The car is an F3 homologated car btw, used in the regional series. I wish they drove cars with the exact same specs as the F3 international series, so people wouldn't use that to put them down again, but that would have probably been too much money to ask from the "good ol'boys' club" running the sport. Formula racing getting more diverse already makes it more exciting for a larger audience, it would be even better if that diversity extended to gender as well.

Asya yüzme

too bad you can't watch the whole races until you already know the series result.

@@CameronRout Still enjoy watching the racing, the results are like teasers to me, watching how it happened rather than how it ended is where I get the pleasure. But ofc it would be even better to watch it live on the same platform as the other races.

@@Buildxbeyond Pretty much everything---except the cars

Bro what would they take notes on, how to crash more. F1 is so famous because it’s better than f2, f3, f4.

LOL yeah, that was rather sudden

Most junior series can’t, it just adds to development costs of the cars.

Hankook tyres developed to last the whole race and for lower temps, both cost effective and less wasteful. The formation lap is the warm up lap. It's the same in Formula E (specially developed Michelin tyres, changing to Hankook next year). I wish F1 did the same actually, instead of chucking tyres like they're paper cups. The carbon footprint and waste from F1 tyres alone (including the energy consumption of those heating blankets, even with temps reduced from 100°C to 70°C) is insane. If they really cared about making the sport greener, they should start with that. To be fair, the 3 sets out of 5 is progress compared to when they allocated each team 7 tyre types (!) just for dry, but there's still a ways to go.

honestly the racers are probably told not to battle to much, to much risk for an already money hungry attempt at a racing league. it really isnt worth crashing for a single pass in these slow ass cars. these are skilled drivers no doubt, they race better than me, but they are no where near the mind of hamilton to recreate his lines.