Formula 1’s plans for an all-female support category is already attracting early speculation. It will be a Formula 4 car with 165 horsepower, which according to F1 CEO Stefano Domenicali will help female drivers “move into F3 and hopefully to F2 and then the pinnacle of Formula 1”. “There will never be a woman in Formula 1,” said the 67-year-old. However, Verschuur insisted that he is not opposed to female racing drivers. “But the G-forces there are not nearly as high as in Formula 1. They don’t make it to Formula 2 either, but maybe in Formula 3 at the back of the field.”.

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