Originally Posted by billt460
This latest wreck is yet another example of how women in racing will never amount to anything. Except for perhaps eye candy if their driving suits are tight enough. As most of you know I was / am one of the biggest critics of Danica, when she was around doing nothing, except wrecking top shelf equipment, on what seemed like a weekly basis. If I was unfair in my analysis, it's only because she most certainly was not alone. She has had plenty of company over the years, in the lack of female performance department. From herself in NASCAR, to Natalie Decker in ARCA, to the Camping World Truck Series. Where Jennifer Jo Cobb can be observed on an all but weekly basis getting in peoples way, and causing wrecks as she is constantly being lapped.
In open wheel it's been much the same. There has not been a single female who has shown ANY type of winning performance skills in F1. Either as a, "development driver", or otherwise. Susie Wolff, MarÃa de Villota, Carmen Jordá, Simona de Silvestro, Milka Duno, all went nowhere. de Villota ended up dying a year after suffering head injuries in a low speed crash in the pits after screwing around on a wet track. Wolff would have never set foot in a F1 car, if it were not for her husbands vast wealth, along with his advanced position in the sport. This is never going to change. You will NEVER, repeat NEVER, see a woman driver with the skill level of a Vettel, Hamilton, Räikkönen, Alonso, or any other male driver for that matter.
In 1992 Giovanna Amati, (who again never would have set foot in a F1 car if not for her families wealth and position), made three unsuccessful Grand Prix qualification attempts. Nothing has changed in those last 26 years, except for the fact today's women drivers are afforded much better equipment they can't do anything with..... Except wreck it as was again proven in this latest Macau fiasco. This time they were extremely lucky she didn't kill herself, along with anyone else. That wreck could have easily taken out several of those track Marshalls.
Through the years women race drivers have become perfect examples of the, "Peter Principal". They have all risen to the level of their own incompetence. And they have been placed there, (or pushed depending on how you look at it), by politically correct individuals, along with a society who seem to think they have no place at the track as grid girls, but rather need to be advanced into the cockpit. Where I'm sure they will remain until these racing teams decide to stop wasting money on them. Or else there is some type of horrible disaster that happens directly due to their lack of skill, and constant never ending mistakes.
Says the guy who has never heard of Sabin Schmitz.