Susie Wolff's big day .

Yesterday, Wednesday 17th October 2012, saw Susie Wolff the second female F1 driver, take to the track at Silverstone.

Susie Wolff, who has been racing in DTM car series and also happens to be the wife of Williams’ executive director Toto Wolff, ran a test drive for the team yesterday. She hopes the test will inspire other female drivers. Some may say this is all a publicity stunt for Williams, but this is so much more, the fist time to see women racingF1 cars .

Susie started her career at an early age in 1996 with kart racing. She started racing in DTM in 2006 and just earlier this year, was announced as the development driver for the Williams F1 team. Seeing her move to driving an F1 car at Silverstone yesterday. Susie did 50km runs in the Williams F1 car and went on to compete lap after lap at Silverstone.

The first on the full wet tyres in damp conditions and the second on the dry tyres.

Speaking about the run, Susie said: "It was incredible to experience aFormula One car for the first time. I've done a lot of simulator worksince I joined the team but nothing compares to the exhilaration ofdriving the real thing. The conditions were a little tricky as it wasquite damp at the beginning of the run but the track soon dried out.The team also did a fantastic job preparing me, giving me all theinformation I needed so that I was always in control."

This was achieved while the tragic accident of Maria De Villota's accident is still fresh in our minds. Maria was also test driving the car at Duxford Aerodrome last July, in which saw her lose her right eye and almost losing her life.

Yesterday's events is all good news for women in F1, I think this is a start to something good in modern day racing and something F1 and the FIA should embrace with open arms. 
There is space for both as drivers and teams, I don't think we should go down the lines of men and women only teams, but have mix drivers and pit teams. This will make for a more compelling atmosphere in the pit's and  .Therehas only been five female racing drivers since 1958, the last on was back in 1992.

I think it's quite sad that we see women in all other forms of motor racing, Indy 500, 24 hours le mans, nascar and dtm so it should be allowed in F1.

                   A list of the only women drivers to drive F1 cars past and present !

                                 MariaTeresa De Fillippis 1958,1959

                                 LelleaLambardi 1974,1976

                                 DivinaGalica 1976,1978

                                Desirewilson 1980

                                 Giovannaamati 1992

                                  Maria De Villota 2012

                                  SusieWolff, 2012.

Maybe one day I'll see Susie Wolff or another female F1 driver on the podium or even world champion and we all should embrace that day ..

                                 

Well done Susie Wolff! May it be the first of lots of F1 drives.............

Followlink bellow for her official web page 
www.susiewolff.com