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Originally posted by Lee Janotta
But companies that control the budgets have all built their marketing strategies with heroic (or at least psuedo-heroic) male archetypes driving. Therefore there won't be funding for female drivers to even get to a position where F1 team bosses would notice them, and there certainly won't be opportunities to drive.
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- I've got a vague recollection of reading an article a few years back about ex-DTM racer Ellen Lohr who found exactly this problem back in the 80s when she tried to step up from German F3 (she was a contemporary of MS in Formula Ford & F3)- despite a decent amount of FF1600 & F3 success, she found it impossible to find a budget for F3000, because it was perceived as being the next step towards F1, and the attitude she faced was that as no woman would ever race in F1 then there was no point in backing her for F3000....
Hence, when BMW offered a full-time touring car ride, she took than and her career went in the direction of the DTM