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Team boss makes worrying admission about females racing in F1

Williams team principal James Vowles has admitted that a woman competing in Formula 1 again is 'years away', due to issues which have gone on for too long. It's been 37 years since Lella Lombardi competed at the pinnacle of motorsport, with her having been the most recent female driver to have raced in F1. Until recently, very little has been done to try and get a woman back into the sport, with Susie Wolff's Free Practice 1 appearance at the 2014 British Grand Prix having been the last time a female completed an official F1 session. Formula 1 has finally realised that enough wasn't being done to get a woman into the sport; however, the biggest question is what took the sport so long to...
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