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Mod note: If you skip to minute 3:25 in the video, you reach the part where it talks about the woman from Dubai owning and racing a Formula 1 car. That's why this thread was posted in the Automotive forum. It's pretty cool, actually. Tidbit: the car cost 200,000 pounds (almost $259,000)!
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Reason: Clarification.
Mod note: If you skip to minute 3:25 in the video, you reach the part where it talks about the woman from Dubai owning and racing a Formula 1 car. That's why this thread was posted in the Automotive forum. It's pretty cool, actually. Tidbit: the car cost 200,000 pounds (almost $259,000)!
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Mod note: If you skip to minute 3:25 in the video, you reach the part where it talks about the woman from Dubai owning and racing a Formula 1 car. That's why this thread was posted in the Automotive forum. It's pretty cool, actually. Tidbit: the car cost 200,000 pounds (almost $259,000)!
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She's bought a Ferrari. A street car (granted, from the same manufacturer that races in F1) that cost a quarter of a million dollars. Good on her. Trouble is, she couldn't buy a set of F1 wheels and tires with that money. So, no, she doesn't own or race an F1 car. There isn't a chance in hell she has an "F1 license" - first and foremost because there is no such thing. She'd need a superlicense as someone's correctly pointed out and unless she has raced a number of major feeder series to F1, she doesn't have that. I'm also not sure what the UAE racing team is since a Google search reveals nothing. She's participated in a Formula Ford training program in 2005. That's about it as far as her racing chops. Well, that and doing the timing at Yas Marina for Pirelli.
Not to diminish any of her accomplishments, but putting F1 in the title of the thread is inaccurate and is basically just clickbait.
the last female to run formula one was desiree wilson, and she retired a number of years ago.
Actually, that is also inaccurate. The last woman to drive an F1 car over a race weekend was Giovanna Amati for Brabham in 1992. She never qualified for a race, though, same as Wilson. Since then Maria de Villota had tested for Lotus and Marussia and, sadly, died as result of an injury sustained at one of the tests (in 2013, a year after the 2012 incident).
Actually, that is also inaccurate. The last woman to drive an F1 car over a race weekend was Giovanna Amati for Brabham in 1992. She never qualified for a race, though, same as Wilson. Since then Maria de Villota had tested for Lotus and Marussia and, sadly, died as result of an injury sustained at one of the tests (in 2013, a year after the 2012 incident).
but it is nice to see that other women have tried to get into formula one racing.
Nah. I'm well aware of Wilson's Aurora success. The problem is, Aurora isn't F1, as such. It was a short-lived breakaway series that essentially served as a feel-good landing spot for F1 rejects. It also ran F2 cars twenty years after that ceased to be common practice in F1 proper. If you read their entry lists, you won't find a single driver who accomplished much of anything in the real deal. It was basically the NBDL to real F1's NBA, except without any of the "development" piece since it wasn't a feeder series.
You want to talk about a woman truly succeeding in a top-tier series, Google WRC's Michèle Mouton.
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Tidbit: the car cost 200,000 pounds (almost $259,000)! 
