--- Richard Urschel <osp13@mybluelight.com> wrote:
>
*snip*
Anyone who can look at
> Shauna's accomplishments and still contend that
> women cannot compete with men in motorsports aren't
> thinking and shooting straight.
Unfortuantely some of those are running racing teams
today. Take this recent quote from ESPN2 when Sarah
Fisher was offered the opportunity to test an F1 car
for McLaren:
''The chances of Fisher making it to F1 eventually
would appear to be remote, however, with McLaren team
principal Ron Dennis saying last month that he could
not envisage a woman racing in the championship.
"I think that, over-simplifying it, oval racing is a
very different type of racing to circuit racing," he
said. "(F1) requires different abilities and I think
those abilities are more challenging for a woman to
fulfill than for a man. I think it is very difficult
for a woman to be competitive in Formula One." ''
*back to Richard Urschel*
And history tells us
> some of them
> won't until death threats have been issued and some
> woman has clawed her way to the the championship of
> whatever series they think is premier.
>
Perhaps, though there are some minds that will never
change, and let's hope that they are not the ones
deciding whos racing and who isn't.
Sharon
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