It's only practice, but how will Susie Wolff do on Friday?

I think she will do 100% better than 100% of every single person in an F1 car on here thats for sure
However I hope she does well among her F1 driver piers.

 

Do we know who's car she's getting? Just FP1? Or is she doing FP2 also?

My guess is she'll do just fine - Lots of camera action and "added interest" from breathless journos telling us how long it's been since a girl drove in FP - This will naturally link to poor Maria & her accident - "Human interest", blah, blah..... Good coverage for Frank....

She should keep her nose clean, and given how good Isobel says the car is, she'll probably wind up midfield somewhere - A little behind whoever's in the other one for more breathless one liners; "she's only 1 second behind the regular driver, and he's a man!" Blah, blah.....

I wish her well, and if it helps Frank drum up some more $, so much the better.

Cheers,
Ian

 

She´ll do fine.

Wait, wait: his husband is bringing the engines. And some say that even some confidential information from Mercedes.

So she´ll do greeat.

 

She'll do fine. She did a test last year as well and did a lot of laps (also Silverstone if memory serves) and she wasn't last.

Would be funny if she does 1 lap and then it buckets down and she'll end up first. Lol.

 

Frankly, F1 tests/practice are pretty stress full - unfamiliar car, and trying to get the most data/performance out of it.

Lots of F1 spins/wrecks in tests/practice.

I don't know enough about the Mrs. Wolff to say anything for sure.

 

I think she's very brave.

 

Third option: Who cares? Another way for Williams to indirectly pay for its engine's supply and their shared secret intercooler

 

Because some of us actually like to see new drivers in the sport, instead of the same set of drivers with championships 10 years ago moving around and the names on the grid staying the same.

Kudos to the teams that put fresh non championship drivers into their machinery, Red Bull picked up Vettel - look how that turned out, now they have Ricci. Mclaren dumped in Hamilton, and now have KM.

Always interesting to me to see a fresh driver behind the wheel of a F1 at a F1 track.

 

+1

It's just a marketing gimmick.

 

I think she could be very quick(top 5 perhaps) if Williams allow her to drive and not parade around.

 

+1

Very well said.

I don't recall any threads asking how will Haryanto or Rossi do in their tests..... a little more interest because she's a girl? Sure, why not?

Cheers,
Ian

 

Toto will secretly have her engine developing an extra 100 hp from higher boost.

Better prediction - She'll be faster than Massa in her practice session.

 

I've been waiting for that one since the OP.

The Massa sucks thread will get yet more (unneeded ) mileage.....

Cheers,
Ian

 

Wow! Surprised it took all the way to 13 posts before Massa was targeted. You guys are slacking...

 

Close! If Wolff's engine hadn't failed after 4 laps, she probably would have been faster than Massa, who threw his car into the wall after 7 laps.

 

Not his best track, unless you like ballet when wet.

 

Surprised no one has linked to it yet, so here goes...

Woman drives F1 car « Sniff Petrol

Woman drives F1 car

Posted in Motorsport, News by Sniff Petrol on Friday, July 4th, 2014

A woman has driven a Formula 1 car today, despite being a woman.

To everyone’s great surprise, her delicate bones were not crushed by the enormous pressures involved and, more remarkably, her tiny mind did not seem confused by the world passing rapidly in front of her pretty little eyes.

Naturally, the car broke down, almost certainly as a result of the woman’s lack of mechanical aptitude, but the woman was at least able to then park the stricken machine without backing it into another car, no doubt to the surprise of the watching menfolk!

To the relief of all concerned, the woman will not be allowed near the expensive and complicated car again for the rest of the weekend and hopefully will return to baking, sewing and thinking about kittens, as she should!

© All motorsport coverage

 

If she'll have a son he will need to be an idiot not to make it into F1. I'm certain she'll not be the last Wollf to drive such cars

 

Very strong showing from Ms. Wolff today at P1 in Germany. Ran well, and finished within 0.2 seconds of Massa for her best lap.

 

Yes good stuff, but can she reverse and park it.............runs and hides no offence intended Izobella

 

That was sexist and inappropriate.

But pretty funny.

 

She could be released to get a seat somewhere else.