Dahulu Tony Fernandes waktu berkecimpung di dunia motorsport pun Tony Fernandes mendirikan tim Lotus hijau tahun 2010 dan kemudian berubah jadi Caterham F1 tahun 2012. Kiprah Tony Fernandes di dunia motorsport pun tidak serius di F1 karena selama memimpin Caterham F1, Tony Fernandes tak dapat poin dan TF ngeyel-ngeyel mau cabut dari dunia motorsport untuk fokus maskapainya (AirAsia).
Namun jika Ricardo Gelael juga tidak serius di dunia motorsport, Ricardo Gelael juga akan mencabut komitmennya dari dunia motorsport karena reputasi buruk. Bisa juga Ricardo Gelael alih fokus bisnis KFC ketimbang motorsport.
Hi, guys! I'm not completely sure if this kind of post is allowed here, but, if you don't mind, I'd like to share a story with you involving a specific event of the São Paulo GP.
I am a 22-year-old Brazilian student (F), and I had the opportunity to be at my first GP (and also at my first sports event) last weekend. I started to follow F1 during the pandemics, much because of this subreddit, which helped me a lot to understand a lot about the sport. On Saturday, as some of you may remember, Norris turned 22 years old, and I, who am also a big Taylor Swift fan, made a sign in celebration of his birthday, making a pun with the song "22" ("I don't know about you, but Lando is [probably] feeling 22"). A reporter from a well-known website saw me with the sign and did an interview with me. I was thrilled because it was the first time I'd ever done an interview in my life and even more for such a big website. The subject of the report was the female audience in F1, and how women are becoming more and more present in the world of motorsports in Brazil.
Yesterday, I made the mistake of looking for the article on Twitter. When I read the comments, I was amazed by the number of guys taking my lines and saying I'm not a real fan because of parts where I say I don't have a favorite driver (I really don't, although there are some drivers I identify with more than others) or because I say I like Norris because I think he's cool, young and cute (and I didn't lie, but I don't think that's all: he's a fuckin' outstanding driver and I really admire the fact that he talks openly about mental health in such a sincere way, besides the fact that I can relate to the fact that we're the same age), guys implying that I'm a daddy's girl when I paid for my ticket with MY money, guys calling me and the other girls in the report "Mary gasoline" (basically a hanger-on). It got me completely PISSED, but not because they were using things I said to talk shit about me or other women. What really pissed me off was when I realized that if it was a man saying the things I and the other girls in the interview said, he would hardly be called a "fake fan".
I decided to do a post on the subject because I believe it's past time to think about the way we treat female fans in motorsports. I have heard many reports of women being harassed in other areas of the track and I have seen men accompanied by beautiful women being called "cuckolds" (simply because they are beautiful women???). This needs
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