Women in F1

I thought I'd write a little something about Stirling Moss' comments about women drivers in F1:-

Moss, 83, told BBC Radio 5 live: "I think they have the strength, but I don't know if they've got the mental aptitude to race hard, wheel-to-wheel."
But F1 hopeful Susie Wolff, 30, responded: "I completely disagree with him. It makes me cringe hearing that."
Italian Lella Lombardi was the most prolific female F1 driver, starting 12 races in the 1970s and scoring half a point.

Just to explain Lella Lombardi's achievement: she came 6th, in the 1975 Spanish Grand Prix, in a dreadful race where 5 spectators died, where the race was stopped before half distance, and with a total of 7 finishers, just ahead of a rookie in his first race in an F1 car. And that's it for the sum total of points for women in F1. Ever.

Susie Wolff, is someone who has raced for 7 seasons in touring cars in Germany and got a grand total of 4 points in that time. That is to say, finished 7th in 2 races out of around 100. She isn't an "F1 hopeful" on that track record. If she disagrees with him, perhaps she should produce some evidence to counter it.

Of course, what Moss did was to look at the facts, consider what wasn't causing it, and arrived at a conclusion based on what was left. It's just not a conclusion that fits with the feminist line, which means it's heretical. I'm not sure I entirely agree with his conclusion - I suspect it's that men are generally less risk averse than women, but unlike his critics, he has at least engaged with the facts.