I've been a follower of formula1 for a long time, but I was shocked at the end of the British F1 coverage on Sunday to see "grid girls" lined up to clap the winners as they went to the podium.
Clearly I've seen this in plently of previous races, (and perhaps I've been a bit blind to it), but I'd always dismissed it as something that happened in other countries which were perhaps more sexist / less enlightened than the UK. For some reason I had it in mind that the use of girls as window dressing in motosport was abandoned years ago. It's not what I want my daughter to see when we watch motorsports.
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hovers · 07/07/2014 22:20
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