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Mercedes Formula 1’s Chief Executive Officer: What did you learn when you were hired? A study of the gender composition of the European driver’s workforce

Women made up 4.5% of drivers, 16% of institutional employees, and 18% of volunteers in European racing, according to a survey conducted by the sport’s global governing body.

“I will never forget when I was announced as team principal,” she said. The first question I was asked was, what qualifies you for this job? The second question was, ‘Did your husband get you this job?’ The third question is: how can you manage the travel since you just had a baby? Wolff is married to the Mercedes Formula 1 team’s team principal.

After one year as chief executive, she silenced the critics and helped the team jump from last place to contender for the title. She hopes the same type of scrutiny that she went through in the past won’t happen to women who take racing roles in the future.

Wolff, who was the only female, said everything about her gender didn’t matter after she became successful.

Formula One, Whitewashing, and the First Team: a case study of the Saudi Arabian Grand Prix in Jeddah

Pollock says that his project, if successful, would see the launch of the “first Formula One team that is truly outside of Europe” – thousands of miles from the heartland of the sport in the south of England where many teams are already based.

If you have an existing Formula One team, it would be hard to build a team with 50% male, 50% female, because it would be difficult with a clean sheet of paper.

As part of the selection process, the FIA will assess, among other things, a detailed business plan, the team’s experience, technical ability and resources, and the potential to raise and maintain sufficient funding.

As well as being the CEO for BAR, Pollock was also manager for one-time F1 champion Jacques Villeneuve, so he is well aware of the huge amounts of money needed to get a team off the ground.

“I’m not really in the position to talk about that and be fully open about it at this present time – that will come out in the very near future. I hope it works because it does take a lot of money.

Such comments have fed speculation that Pollock’s backers are from Saudi Arabia, a country with bold ambitions in the sport having first hosted a grand prix in 2021.

A year ago, the race in Jeddah went on despite an attack on a oil storage facility near the track claimed by the Yemen’s Houthi rebels, while Lewis Hamilton and many other human rights groups were uneasy about Saudi Arabia’s human rights record.

Formula One has never engaged with human rights and the way it whitewashes abuses in repressive regimes, according to a joint executive director of Reprieve.

Saudi Arabia banned Saudi women from driving until the end of the year, making it significant that a mixed- gender team is in the country.

F1 has responded to questions about sportswashing – the practice of using a sport to project favorable images of a country around the world – by saying it has worked hard to be a “positive force everywhere it races, including economic, social, and cultural benefits.”

Source: https://www.cnn.com/2023/03/28/motorsport/formula-equal-f1-motorsport-spt-intl/index.html

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“In reality, it’s them having come to us because we have a turnkey operation with the business plan, with all the costings, with everything ready to go.”

“This has to be built from the bottom up in a Gulf state and this is what we are aiming to do,” he adds. This project is long-term and not short-term.