A Question of Culture
The rhetoric across the motorsport world at the moment is that we must fight racism, it isn?t diverse enough and that this needs to change. It?s safe to say that the upper echelons of motorsport, such as MotoGP and Formula 1 are, as James Alison, Technical Director of Mercedes Formula 1 team put it, ?just nerdy white blokes?. So, what is it in particular about the higher echelons of motorsport that mean that this is the case"
Motorsport is a complex amalgamation of business, sport and technical exercise. Like any other sport in the world, in racing there is a way to get ahead of the competition individually (athletes), technically (equipment) or strategically (gameplay). However, unlike some other sports in the world where there is a coaching squad of a few people, some owners and the athletes, in the higher tiers of racing there are hundreds and in some cases thousands of people that make up each race team or work in the team’s network. Racecar Engineering’s Deputy Editor, Stewart Mitchell [Right], interviewing NIO Racing’s Gerry Hughes [Left] at the 2019 Rome E-Prix
Motorsport is a huge multifaceted industry with personnel working in all sciences, engineering, logistics, sponsorship, business management, accounting, IT, manufacturing, design, marketing, media, photography, and many more. However, as Lewis Hamilton highlighted in 2020, ?the institutional barriers that have kept Formula 1 highly exclusive persist.? Said institu...
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