#f1a

i cannot believe people say they want to support young girls in sports and let this go on. i’m not here to shame emma but i AM here to shame everyone else involved. INCLUDING F1 ACADEMY.

i cannot believe they let him anywhere near her and that paddock, let alone post pictures of them like it’s some cute story. hannes janker i hope you die and i hope anyone who knew about this does as well. you cannot support girls and women in sports and let this shit go on. fuck you and your sport

again i’m not saying this to shame emma or share a story that belongs to the victim to share but i can’t sit back and watch this happen without the rest of the f1 community knowing about it especially as a woman in sports who knows abuse way too well.

this is a sport where being shorter and lighter = aerodynamic advantage. but that would disadvantage tall, heavy men! so what does the FIA do? they create a minimum weight requirement for the car and the driver. teams literally have to add weight to the cockpit to make up for shorter/lighter drivers.

this is a sport where the "formula" changes every few years. it's not about building the fastest car humanly possible — it's about building the fastest car possible within the regulations. those regulations can artificially control for ANYTHING. the formula has always optimized the safety and drivability of f1 cars based on the historical default driver: a man. why not have them make small tweaks that would equalize the cars for women?

and for everyone who says that women don't belong in f1 because they aren't as strong as men*, remember that f1 cars didn't have power steering for the first 40 years of the sport's existence. they have literally changed the formula to make the cars easier to drive—for men—before. they can do it again to make it easier for the sport to include women.

*also, many elite women athletes are more than strong enough to compete in f1.