This Rocks
I normally don't give a stuff about motorsport, but more of this could change my mind.
Katherine Legge isn't quite on top of the motorsport world right yet, but she's closing in fast -- she came third in the Formula Atlantics development series in America, had a Formula One test just recently where she posted the second-fasted time of the five invited drivers (the other four all male, of course), has a Champ Car test coming up later this month, but before that, she's now been invited to test drive for the UK A1 Grand Prix team, the first woman ever to do so.
I've got a whole post about this I'm going to write up soon, about how fascinating it is that a sport where women are probably on-average superior to men retains such a macho reputation, and how much fun it'll be to watch those assumptions get blown away. Nothing like a little ideological wreckage to liven up my day. Go Katherine!
Katherine Legge isn't quite on top of the motorsport world right yet, but she's closing in fast -- she came third in the Formula Atlantics development series in America, had a Formula One test just recently where she posted the second-fasted time of the five invited drivers (the other four all male, of course), has a Champ Car test coming up later this month, but before that, she's now been invited to test drive for the UK A1 Grand Prix team, the first woman ever to do so.
I've got a whole post about this I'm going to write up soon, about how fascinating it is that a sport where women are probably on-average superior to men retains such a macho reputation, and how much fun it'll be to watch those assumptions get blown away. Nothing like a little ideological wreckage to liven up my day. Go Katherine!
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