Pink Bull chief Christian Horner mentioned on Friday it was inevitable that gender equality would attain Method One amid reviews {that a} staff using an equal break up between women and men was seeking to enter the game.
Former British American Racing (BAR) founder Craig Pollock informed CNN final week he wished to debut “Method Equal” from the 2025 or 2026 season onwards.
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The purpose was to have a 50 per cent break up between women and men throughout the entire organisation, from the cockpit to the engineers and the boardroom.
He has reportedly submitted an expression of curiosity to racing’s governing physique, the FIA, which opened up the method for locating a possible eleventh staff earlier this yr.
Horner, when requested about Pollock’s plan, mentioned he believed gender equality within the historically male-dominated sport would occur “naturally” anyway.
“I feel it’s implausible to see the quantity of ladies, females, which might be displaying curiosity in Method One now and we’re seeing it in any respect ranges,” the Briton mentioned in Melbourne forward of the Australian Grand Prix.
“I feel the curiosity is rising … it’s interesting to extra ladies to get entangled within the sport, whether or not that’s from an engineering foundation or throughout all facets of the organisation.
“As the game does grow to be extra accessible, and we’re pushing to make it extra accessible, I feel that it’s one thing that may naturally occur anyway.”
Pollock, previously the supervisor of 1997 F1 champion Jacques Villeneuve, acknowledged funding such a enterprise can be massively costly however mentioned he was in intense discussions with “a Gulf-area nation” about bankrolling it.
Alpine staff boss Otmar Szafnauer mentioned gender equality was “essential to everyone in Method One”.
“So something we are able to do to extend range in F1 I feel everybody right here would welcome it,” he informed reporters in Melbourne.
“However I don’t know something apart from what I briefly examine their (Method Equal) entry.”
