Posts tagged Carmen Jorda

There’s something about Carmen…

There’s nothing wrong with countless heterosexual males clicking on links with nice but pointless images of Carmen Jorda like you probably just did, all the motorsport press have been fixated and fascinated with Carmen ever since she…….uh, sorry I just saw another article about her. Where was I?  oh yes, the motorsport! My timelines for almost all of the motorsport ‘press’, bloggers, youtubers and twitter personalities websites have been bulging with any comment, statement or latest news on the former race driver, So I thought I would chip in, get involved and see how easy it would be to get you to click on yet another dull, click-baity, totally irrelevant article about Carmen Jorda.

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I know it’s the time of year when the dullest press releases from F1 teams come out anyway and they get faithfully copied and pasted to a million sites but this year seems somewhat different after the Renault launch with more of a heavy emphasis on one person who’s not even a driver, not a team boss and seemingly not involved with racing in any way anymore, The sheer weight of coverage from the likes of the BBC, SkySports F1 right down to the small blogs and facebook groups would be more understandable if she were even relevant or talented or showed signs of promise or success in any previous category as a driver.

But hey, who am I to get in the way of a good news story?…….what was the story again? I forgot, something about Carmen Jorda.

Does Jorda hiring show that sexism in F1 is still alive and well ?

Following the puzzling announcement that the Lotus F1 team had decided to hire a driver who in their entire racing career had never scored a single outright podium and for the past three seasons has been languishing at the back of the GP3 grid, Jake Sanson and the #Pitbored team decided to discuss the decision in full,  The debate got very heated very quickly!

 

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The entire Downforce Radio team and myself wish her all the very best at Lotus and for the rest of her career.

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