Inside F1: Life alongside legends

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But I will never forget the first moment I hit the track at Silverstone in the Williams Formula One car. As an F1 fan there’s nothing here that I didn’t already know and as such it’s just going over old ground. That’s not to say the girls that were going around the track – the Abbi Pulling’s of this world – don’t have enormous talent, they do. It’s really nice to see that there’s a lot more girls coming into karting and it’s good that F1 Academy are pushing for more girls. By using the Web site, you confirm that you have read, understood, and agreed to be bound by the Terms and Conditions.

A driving tactic when a driver is able to catch the car ahead and duck in behind its rear wing to benefit from a reduction in drag over its body and hopefully be able to achieve a superior maximum speed to slingshot past before the next corner.Lee McKenzie walked and navigated it so others like Laura Winter, Jennie Gow, Natalie Pinkham, and more could be given the baton. Quite simply, the numbers are not where they need to be for the female talent pool – both on and off the track – and the battle to alter that starts at the grassroots. A bed of gravel on the outside of corners designed with the aim of bringing cars that fall off the circuit to a halt. On the frontline of one of the most watched sports on the planet and gaining the respect of F1 world champions with her tough but fair interview approach, Lee has shared experiences, hire cars, parties and friendships with a host of drivers from Michael Schumacher to Lewis Hamilton and Sebastian Vettel to Jenson Button.

I think anyone in my position would be saying they want to get to the top of motorsport and be in Formula One. A turning point in the history of motorsport” – that’s how F1 Academy Discover Your Drive, a new global initiative aiming to increase the female talent pool in motorsport both on and off the track, is being described.

These then stick to the tread of the tyre, effectively separating the tyre from the track surface very slightly. That plays into one of the most important factors of all – role models are worth their weight in gold.

A computerised system that detects if either of a car's driven (rear) wheels is losing traction - ie spinning - and transfers more drive to the wheel with more traction, thus using its more power efficiently. This is a book about Lee herself and the World Champions she knew personally and interviewed publicly, and includes, besides Felipe, Michael Schumacher, Sebastian Vettel , Jensen Button, Fernando Alonso, Max Verstappen, and Louis Hamilton with thumbnails of their backgrounds, their racing and F1 lives with main, often dramatic, events ighlighted.

Overall, if you are already a fan of F1 and have been with the sport for the last 10 years, none of this information is new - though does offer different perspectives.