Macau Crash

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How lucky is this kid, the others drivers, spectators and staff of the Formula 3 event. It's an engineering miracle that people were not killed. I'm glad she is out of surgery and looks likely to recover, hard to believe she is tweeting from the hospital bed.

But my nature makes me prone to pose the unpopular questions, and I can't help but pose this question despite not knowing what went wrong.

Is this what equality quotas get you when anti-discrimination laws become extreme, did this kid deserve to be out there?

Did she have enough of the basic skills to deal with a car problem at 280kph, or was she just there because of her gender and an allocated spot?

If there are quotas in this sport, how is that fair on other drivers, officials and spectators, how is it fair on her when she could lose her life? The equality argument will be it's her life to lose, but she has no right to possibly take others with her!

I'm interested in the thoughts of others, because outside of this specific incident it's an issue being discussed across several sports and life in general.

Yeah, not sure I'm going to get into the argument of quotas in this sport...we've had plenty of instances of flying cars driven by some of the best drivers in the world (Webber, Barrichello etc).  Most of these are not the fault of the driver directly involved, but of either car design, or the actions of other traffic around them contributing to the launch.

Motor racing is one sport where theoretically women should be able to compete evenly at elite level (and some do - Simona De Silvestro), the fact that it is still male dominated just points to the sheer volume of male drivers out there imho.

I've been watching motor sport for 40 years....and have an interest in the history of it going back even further than that, and what really comes home about this crash is that if you saw this 20 years ago......it would have most likely ended in tragedy.  The question I have is whether the huge advances in cockpit safety in recent years has lead to a slightly gung ho attitude to racing among the younger driver these days.  Most of whom have not grown up in the same dangerous motor racing environment as those drivers from past eras.

Quite frankly, if drivers such as Verstappen, Vettel etc behaved as they currently do on track back in the 60s & 70s....the other drivers would have made sure they never drove again, as they would be a danger to all.