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Max Verstappen has agreed to split a $250,000 charity donation with Formula E CEO Jeff Dodds, after the all-electric championship boss bet against the Dutchman winning this year's Formula 1 title.

The global development programme created to assist women’s progress toward Formula One has announced its first selection of female drivers

A recent report by More Than Equal explored the data involving women and girls in motorsport and identified two key challenges for female drivers - the participation gap and the performance gap.

There’s no escaping the reality: motorsport still has a major diversity problem. Have things improved? Almost certainly. But enough? Far from it.

Ali Donnelly is a no-nonsense Irish woman whose career spans Sport England and a stint as spokesperson for the British Prime Minister. She's one of the vanguard driving greater female participation in sport.

A detailed investigation comprised of nearly 13,000 respondents and over 70 in-depth interviews with industry leaders has uncovered that motorsport is one of the lowest-performing sports for gender equality, only behind American football, with an average participation across all categories of just 10% for female drivers.

With nearly half of Formula 1 fans now female, new initiatives aim to get women into the driving seat.

More than Equal, the global initiative committed to crowning the first female Formula 1 drivers’ world champion, has launched a global survey into female participation in elite motorsport.

Female-forward organisation More Than Equal hopes to find the first female Formula 1 Drivers’ World Champion within 10 years.