Women in Circuit Racing

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Originally Posted by mountainstar

Women and men have a lot of advantages and disadvantages over one another.

Being aggressive for women goes against their nature(hormones) and if you watch women racers you will see a lot of inconsistency in their driving and lap times. Plus when you add in door to door racing it all goes out the window.(kat legge and danica are prime examples)

Also women are insular, as they always look inwards and lack much situation awareness which also causes havoc on race tracks.

Women also lack the natural physical strength men have which in some racing series is very important, less so maybe at a club level.

However women are good organizers, making good co drivers in rally and also do well when competing against the clock especially regarding response times in drag racing.

Danica would have never made it to where she is based on results, so certainly in her case, her sex and supposed attractiveness(barf) helped.

In this day and age, men and women are apparently equal and yes as human beings they are, but they do have mental and physical differences and in the case of motor sport that will always work against them.

However I welcome and like women racing drivers and wish them all the success they can obtain.

Since I work primarily in the area of human development let me just say that you points about sex differences are not supported by any credible research.
As far as aggressiveness I have admired LT for her aggressive driving at a state IPRA round some years ago. But on another level perhaps you come along to my Judo club and spar with the 'non-aggressive' women there? As far as physical strength...how much do you really need? At training I watched a woman do 3 sets of 10 wide arm chin ups after sparing for two hours...I have seen some mature racers struggle to get out of the car after 5 laps of historic racing.