Desiré Wilson sees no physical or mental reason why a woman cannot compete in Fo...
HOCKENHEIM, Germany - Desiré Wilson sees no physical or mental reason why a woman cannot compete in Formula One, whatever the men might say, and she should know.
“I used to drive for three hours in world endurance championship races, in monstrous Porsche 956s, and I was capable of doing it,” she told Reuters at the first race of the all-female W Series. “Drivers were just passing out and there I was, a 120 pound driver but it was all in the mental strength. W Series, with 18 women racing identical Formula Three cars in a six-round championship, aims to raise the profile of female racers and help them take on the men further up the single-seater ladder.
“For men who say ‘why should it be an all-woman series?’, they haven’t had to really go through what women really have had to go through in motorsports. So they have no idea. She recalled the words of French driver Jacques Laffite, unapologetic after forcing her off the track on the way to a front-row slot for Ligier, who said: “No woman should be in grands prix.”
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