Managing director of all-female F1 Academy cautions against quick fix but wants a pathway for girls to go from karting to F1
Susie Wolff, the managing director of Formula One’s new all-female series, the F1 Academy, believes it could take as long as a decade for the championship’s aims to be realised and return a woman to the F1 grid. Wolff also revealed that an extensive and radical grassroots expansion plan backed by F1 and to be trialled in the UK is seen as essential to improving female participation in motor sport.
The F1 Academy has been welcomed as a positive step toward improving diversity but in terms of propelling a woman on to the grid, Wolff cautioned against any presumption that it would occur in the immediate future.