SUSIE WOLFF Calls Out F1’s Boys Club While Building Women’s Racing Future

November 16, 2025

• SUSIE WOLFF drops truth bombs about F1’s gender problem in her memoir ‘Driven,’ revealing she only did “one interview where I wasn’t asked about my gender” during her racing career. Male drivers literally shunted her off track rather than face the “shame” of losing to a woman – and she’s got the receipts on who’s still carrying that outdated attitude.
• Now as F1 Academy managing director, WOLFF is building the pipeline F1 never gave her generation. With Lewis Hamilton backing her vision and showing up on grid to support female competitors, she’s seeing real change – more girls in karting and F1 teams finally investing in young female talent through driver academies.
• The last woman to drive in F1 practice (2015) isn’t just dreaming about change – she’s engineering it. WOLFF believes we’ll see a woman in F1 within 5-10 years, powered by the foundation she’s laying through F1 Academy and the momentum from Netflix’s spotlight on women’s racing that’s attracting major brand support.

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