The principle impediment for anybody making an attempt to enter F1, be they a person or a girl, is cash. Wealth speaks loudly within the paddock and, as Stanton factors out, it is among the few sports activities “the place your monetary functionality is as vital as your expertise”.
However with girls making up on common solely about 10% of these in motorsport and plenty of sponsors unwilling to take an opportunity on even the perfect feminine drivers, the dearth of alternative means the physiological calls for of a contemporary F1 marketing campaign on a girl’s physique are nonetheless unknown.
Whereas Coulthard believes there isn’t any bodily cause a girl can not compete in F1, a VO2 Max check, for instance, reveals a male’s rating is often round 20% larger than a feminine’s with the identical health stage.
Stanton says it might be remiss if the event programme didn’t examine the 2 sexes.
“Once we do our expertise identification, we take a look at how they stack towards the present area, which is girls and boys. We then take a look at the feminine area and attempt to achieve an understanding of how they give the impression of being there,” he added.
“We attempt to flip that lens each every now and then to see it from each side.”
In terms of competing towards boys in karting, Lana Flack, from Australia, and Skye Parker, from Trelogan, Wales, know first-hand how hostile occasions will be when the sexes are blended and ladies are successful.
Lana, 13, discovered herself the sufferer of sabotage when she was heading for championship glory, whereas Skye, 14, – who has additionally been chosen as a part of the FIA’s Ladies on Monitor programme – was advised “for this reason girls should not race” whereas being wrongly accused of taking one other driver out.
They hope that with help they are going to be capable to break down boundaries like this to fulfil their ambitions.
“My massive dream is to be a a number of F1 world champion,” Parker says. “However I’ve to get one first.”
