Drive to Survive: Netflix F1 show criticised for lack of women

The caller Formula 1 play gets nether mode this play successful Bahrain.

And to get into the tone a batch of radical are tuning successful to the hugely fashionable Drive to Survive connected Netflix.

The behind-the-scenes F1 amusement dropped its 5th bid past week and went consecutive into the streamer's Top 10 charts.

There are plentifulness of play and deals down closed doors, but 1 thing's missing - women.

That's according to probe by Females successful Motorsport (FIM), a unpaid radical that advocates for women's participation.

It recovered that women spoke for lone six minutes and 7 seconds successful play five, retired of a full tally clip of implicit six and a fractional hours.

They said that equals 1.54% of the show's 10 episodes.

Across each 5 seasons of Drive to Survive, the probe said, radical who place arsenic women person spoken for little than an hr retired of 32 hours of episodes.

The probe besides recovered that lone six women are really named connected surface passim the season.

They see BBC writer Jennie Gow, who speaks successful 4 episodes, and Gertraud Steiner, woman of Haas squad manager Guenther, and Michael Schumacher's woman Corinna.

FIM said women mostly diagnostic successful the inheritance arsenic fans oregon are seen providing nutrient oregon applying make-up to the drivers.

F1 writer Claire Cottingham is successful Drive to Survive during a property league scene.

She's "the lone pistillate successful the room", and though viewers perceive her voice, they don't spot her.

"I inquire a question to a operator successful the bid and they don't amusement my face, they amusement a antheral journalist." she tells BBC Newsbeat.

Claire's watched the bid and says she's "definitely noticed determination are lone a fewer women".

"It's been thing that has near a small spot to beryllium desired," she says.

"Unless women spot that they tin get involved, past they don't cognize they tin get involved." says Claire.

F1 bosses are besides trying to pull much women to the sport.

They precocious announced the instauration of the F1 Academy - a junior-level contention conscionable for pistillate drivers.

Some teams, specified arsenic Alpine, person antecedently launched projects to boost the fig of women crossed each areas, including trackside and engineering jobs.

One pistillate who's been portion of Alpine's squad is 19-year-old Abbi Pulling, who's competed successful British Formula 4 and has been chosen for the F1 Academy.

Academy manager Susie Wolff spoke to BBC Sport this week and said she was alert of the deficiency of women successful Drive to Survive.

"I saw a terrifying punctuation that if you look astatine Drive to Survive, I deliberation it's 1.8% of surface clip features a female.

"How should a young girl, who's eight, and possibly loves F1, however tin she visualise herself getting into that paddock if she can't adjacent spot information oregon women moving successful the paddock?"

But Susie believes the caller academy volition person the powerfulness to boost the illustration of women successful the sport.

"We tin rather rapidly make alteration that they judge in. They tin deliberation possibly there's a accidental for me," she says.

BBC Newsbeat has approached Box to Box, the accumulation institution down Drive to Survive, for comment.

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