F1 Academy is part of a wider culture shift in auto racing. In 2018, F1 abolished the role of “grid girls” — models paid to ...

EXCLUSIVE: Wolff, managing director of the all-female racing series F1 Academy, speaks to Kieran Jackson about the growing ...

Melissa James, one of the last grid girls to work in F1, told CNN ... various models and spokespeople don a cowboy outfit or Austrian dirndl while answering questions from race fans.

IVONN SIMEONOVA, AUSTRIAN MOTORSPORT TALENT: I think we need more girls in Formula 1 and in motorsport cause we are all equal and I mean we should get the same chances. LAURA BUBENOVA, SLOVAKIAN ...

SAALFELDEN, Austria, May 21 (Reuters ... "I think we need more girls in Formula One and in motorsport because we are all equal. And, I mean, we should get the same chances." ...