W Series, with its all-female grid, provides 18 full-time seats, while Extreme E’s unique sporting format has a 50-50 gender split between men and women. Further support will come in 2023 with the introduction of F1 Academy, a new feeder series aimed at helping women join the single seater pyramid.
Yet, if you search the top echelons of some of the most popular motorsports, you’ll find them missing from behind the wheel. Why are women stalled at the grid? For a number of reasons, you could argue, from potential lack of physical strength to speed, from not having the right professional and financial backing to not being the right fit for a primarily male-designed sport.
