F1 Academy confirms calendar for second season including Saudi Arabia opener

15 comments on “F1 Academy confirms calendar for second season including Saudi Arabia opener”

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   SjaakFoo (@sjaakfoo)
   17th October 2023, 17:36

   Ah yes, perfect venue for sportswashing our misogynistic regime away, like magic.
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      BasCB (@bascb)
      19th October 2023, 7:49

      Yeah, from the calendar it looks like the middle eastern autorcratic regimes are happy to pay to show how they have suddenly become fully supportive of rights for women by having the academy.

      I guess for the drivers it does not matter much, but starting off at such a high speed track with bad chances at seeing any incidents ahead might be a bit of a worry.
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   Roger Ayles (@roger-ayles)
   17th October 2023, 19:14

   Letting them race on all the wonderful classic circuits I see.

   Seriously. That is an awful calender in terms of circuit quality.

   Zandvoort is probably the only really great circuit & while Circuit De Catalunya isn’t great in terms of racing it is at least a pretty fun circuit to drive on. The rest are just dreadful.
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      AntonyP
      18th October 2023, 0:36

      The ‘wonderful classic circuits’ have their schedules full with the real series, most with F2 & F3. The available time can’t accommodate another series with multiple races, qualifying and practice sessions.
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   David
   17th October 2023, 19:25

   7 races in a f4 car, hardly worth it
   F1 needs to get more serious if they want women to succeed in motorsport.
   Give them better cars and more race weekends and then there talent can be better seen
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   Simon
   17th October 2023, 21:11

   What an uninspiring calendar. 42% of the races held in the Arabian Peninsula, which speaks volume$$$
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      AntonyP
      18th October 2023, 0:38

      That is where there is free track time available, as F2 & F3 are not racing there.
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   Exediron (@exediron)
   17th October 2023, 23:25

   Seems a little ironic to open the all-female series in a country with an absolutely atrocious record on women’s rights…
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      BasCB (@bascb)
      19th October 2023, 7:49

      Ah, but they have been promoting how much they now let women drive @exediron, so all is good (wink, wink)
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         Billy Rae Flop
         19th October 2023, 11:06

         If you’re going to be one of many who are told what to say and think but don’t even know it, at least try to be more than one dimensional. Yknow instead of coughing up “LEt wOmEN dRiVE” every time you can think of anything else to say. And see other comment.

         Perhaps if you have not lived there, or spoken to the people and the majority women there, then it’s pretty short sighted to tattoo yourself with rhetoric that is based on your spoon fed narrative’s.
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      Billy Rae Flop
      19th October 2023, 11:01

      Seems like a great place to show an example of how women shouldn’t be treated and sex objects and used in vanity? Or an example of how women can be women and not men and an example of where women don’t have to give up their lives work and efforts in sports competition with biological males? An example of where women feel respected and are honoured by understanding their intrinsic needs?
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   Zann (@zann)
   18th October 2023, 10:44

   This is what it needs, live and alongside F1. And yes in the Middle East, where they need to have the example set! Hopefully we’ll get plenty of interviews.
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      Billy Rae Flop
      19th October 2023, 10:59

      An example of how women shouldnt be treated and sex objects and used in vanity? Or an example of how women can be women and not men and an example of where women don’t have to give up their lives work and efforts in sports competition with biological males? An example of where women feel respected and are honoured by understanding their intrinsic needs?

      Yeah sounds like a good example
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   dsa dsadsa
   18th October 2023, 11:38

   Usual brain dead comments, surley if such a country is so awful when it comes to women rights they wouldn’t highlight such issues by having a women racing series? People act like there aren’t some big female arab motorsport racers in countries that have vastly moderinised just in the past 5 years. We in the west seem to be the enemies of progress whilst we curb our own rights these countries are actually opening up. Such series need the money, if that’s where the money is even better.
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   Nerrticus (@nerrticus)
   18th October 2023, 15:25

   Will they actually provide live coverage of it this year? Being part of the F1 race weekends I would hope so.

   15 minute highlight videos on Youtube, and very little else, was a horrible way to promote the series and grow interest this year.

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