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Anonymous asked: Can anyone genuinely point out what actual benefits the F1 Academy drivers have achieved? Something directly tied to their participation in it? Like, “X driver reached this milestone because she was part of F1A”?
Because honestly, especially after the Netflix series, it feels more like a smokescreen to pretend they are doing something for women, while in reality it is just for the teams to fake genuine interest and for Formula 1 to market itself more effectively in the U.S. with a very specific target audience.
Marta Garcia literally just won a le mans cup race?!?! With the iron dames?!?! That picked her up as a driver after her 2023 f1a championship?!?!?!
also, hasn't there been a significant increase in female participation in karting, especially at the introductory levels?
f1 academy isn't necessarily going to produce a female F1 WDC in the next five years. it was never about immediately producing a driver with the ability to immediately get in an F1 car and dominate, which I think is what people expected. how they came to expect this? i don't know.
it exists, primarily, to increase female participation across the board in motorsport, which is hard when there's hardly any women participating even in FIA-sanctioned events and the ones that are, are mostly in series that don't have as broad of a viewing audience, or mainly watched by very dedicated motorsport fans.
it's about making women in motorsport more visible, by having the races be shown directly to F1's audiences by being a support event during the race weekend. that way, young girls who are just starting to come into the age where they pay attention to sports see other girls and realize that yes, it is an option! that way, more girls go through karting. the more girls in karting, the more girls end up on the feeder series ladder, which means that there is more of a chance of having a woman in F1. it's about the long game. the current f1 academy champion does get a fully funded seat in FRECA, yes, which is the way to getting on the actual f3-f2 ladder, but even so, smaller race teams in other series are definitely paying attention.
it is about the long game, anon, and it's already been more effective (or more visible) than anything anyone's done before this.
I love that tumblr is still asking questions about the existence of F1 Academy when all they would have to do to get answers is listen to a woman
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