Grid Girls

F1: Chequered Flag

BBC

Sports

4.2 • 2.2K Ratings

🗓️ 14 December 2017

⏱️ 54 minutes

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Summary

As the popularity, participation and coverage of women’s sport continue to grow – Jennie Gow investigates whether the use of grid girls is a sexist, outdated relic in 2017. Hear the thoughts of the models themselves alongside F1 drivers, team and circuit bosses. Plus find out how the issue is being considered in boxing, cycling and darts.

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0:45.0	This is Five Lives Checked Flag Podcast.
0:48.0	This is Five life sport.
0:54.0	Pit babes, brawly dollies, racer chases,
0:57.0	just some of the names that grid girls have been given through the years.
1:00.0	A society continues to close the gender gap and sport looks to appeal to a wider
1:05.3	audience should scantily clad bodies and big boobs be a thing of the past.
1:10.1	The lycra can stay in the 70s and 80s for me. I don't want any of that tardy nonsense.
1:13.7	We should move on. We think it's an egalitarian world and I don't want my daughter growing up thinking that Lycra is what she ought to aspire to.
1:21.5	Well that's one view but on the other side,
1:23.8	has the world gone PC mad?
1:26.3	Are these girls inherently part of motorsport and its traditions
1:29.9	and add to the glitz and glamour of one of the world's biggest sports.
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