Formula racing: A female driver chases the dream | DW Documentary
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- Motorsports are one of the last male domains - a checkered ceiling 18-year-old Sophia Flörsch is out to break. Her dream is to become Formula 1 world champion. And she won't let her crash in a Formula 3 race in Macau slow her down.
Sophia Flörsch was just four years old the first time she got behind the wheel of a go-cart. She was nine when she heard for the first time that girls couldn't hold their own with the guys in motorsports - a bias that she's since disproven on the track. Women, she says, can do anything, whether climb Mount Everest or become German chancellor - or Formula 1 world champion. In November, 2018, in a Formula 3 race in Macau, she hit a wall at 270 km/h. She was on the operating table for 11 hours and in rehab for weeks. Even so, she's determined to carry on. In spring, 2019, she returned to the track. A report by Janine Berger and Theresa Dahlhoff.
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She seems a hard working driver with great skills, who has earn her place rightfully. Couldn't care less about the gender.
Go get them Sophia!!
@@fademasterfade227 Do I cheer her for being a girl?? I only cheer for her, because she has to fight way more than a guy even if she's more talented. If it was plain level for her, I would only regard her as a favorite driver for style of driving and personality out of the race, which i happen to like as well. Get out of your mama's basement and don't be the cliché loser that blames women for your problems. I've follow her for years and she's earn all she has. I cheer her for that.
Fade masterfade Fade masterfade I see no evidence showing the above commenter is cheering for her based on her gender. His/her reasoning, as stated above, is because "she is hardworking driver with good skills who has earned her place rightful" Maybe you need reading glasses?
@@fademasterfade227 shoo shoo go away with your truths!
It was the same with Calderon. They just made her the reserve for publicity.
Liberty media is pushing it towards this direction. You can also notice it with advertisements/ promo/ racing too. They always show that Force India/ Racing Point and McLaren's female crew pit.
Meritocracy doesn't exist. She is where she is, because she comes from the right family and has the connections. She has access to enough wealth and resources to train to be a racer. Her gender is secondary.
I don't see too many dark skinned, muslim, women, refugees who could be equally talented and hard working making it in the racing world. Circumstances matter.
She has not won a minor racing league race since 2015. She's going nowhere.
I love Sophia but 2 wins in 96 races.
She’s gonna have to step up her game like 1,000,000% to get into F1 and be competitive. Every one of those guys in F1 will run circles around her.
I mean it’s cool she loves racing. But I wanna see podiums, top tens.
More women should be in the car racing industry. It’s legit all men, it’s disgusting.
Her crash was serious and is the reason why its hard for females to get in, she was going 270 around that corner with no breaking. What was she thinking!
@@ShammarPrincess think before you speak divisional rhetoric.
You have to start early. These men dont just walk into a F1 contract you know, and not every boy who starts young becomes a race driver. However there are a few women who have been good enough to become pros.
It's a result business and getting bad driver can kill a teams season and cost them millions. There are loads of f1 drivers who failed to be good enough and are not in F1 anymore. It's just a skill to be able to even keep the heat in the carbon brake discs, heat too low and you're not stopping unless you hit something. Not many can do that, or even push these cars and keep them on their limit lap after lap. I'd be terrified approaching a hairpin 180 plus miles an hour wondering if my brakes are hot enough to stop me or if the grip on my tyres is still there.
F1 cars are not like your Honda, blip the gas too early in an f1 car and you spin. It's a knife edge of balance, skill and balls of steel.
How many 6 year old girls want to go karting in the rain travelling up and down the country cause I don't see many. If any. Or want to move to the UK at 18 (or younger) as most boys do, like Senna and 100s of other drivers have done and will continue to do. Senna give up his comfortable life in Brazil to live in a caravan in the UK so he could race karts. You don't earn money from karting. If you're good you will get noticed. Like he did, but even so Senna didn't walk into the best team, no the worst team, yet he as able to perform miracles with that car due to him being a god behind the racing wheel.
Oh, look up who owns and runs Williams Racing. Frank Williams retired and his daughter runs the F1 team now, I dare say Frank would of left it to his child no matter their gender. There wasn't outrage over that either.
There is ABSOLUTELY nothing stopping women from being race drivers. It takes risk, dedication, sacrifice, skill, the ability to have no fear whatsoever and a fair disposable income as it's normally the parents who pay, but it also helps if your family own a garage and have experience in mechanics and maybe racing themselves, that's why you end up with the sons of famous drivers become pros.
You should look up cookie and cars on here, Louise Cook, a pro rally driver and she is extremely good. I bet you've never even heard of her. Just giving it the gender outrage nonsense is my guess.
Or I guess you could just force women into racing against their will if you like. Or was you wanting special treatment cause..... feminism, if you shoe horn people into cars they can't handle then you're asking for trouble. Try karting for 30 mins around a track yourself in the cold windy rain and see how much you enjoy your arms aching and feeling like an ice cube. Once you know how that feels I'd say times it by 100. Just the g-force alone in an f1 car is physically exhausting. Especially on your neck.
I also know of another male dominate career, slaughterhouse work, do you find that just as disgusting that it's dominated by men?
I bet not....
@@ShammarPrincess it's their choice 🤷🏽♂️
@@ShammarPrincess No ones stoping them, its an open door. The question is can u climb the labber
Slammming into the fence at 270kmph? Amazing safety technology!!
but she did have the spinal concussion! I live with a crooked back and 3 slipped discs! I stretch about 20 minutes a day to live with the pain!
if it was maybe 30 years ago she would have died like Ayrton, amazing technology!
women can do everything better than man, its just women are cowards and scared their lives, or you should say men are forced to not care their lives in order to survive, this women is one who not care her life, to the extend that she does not even care the risk of crashing, she crashed because she don't care, has nothing to do with women cannot do things better than men.
DW it's an excellent documentary congratulation from Dominican Republic.
women can do everything better than man, its just women are cowards and scared their lives, or you should say men are forced to not care their lives in order to survive, this women is one who not care her life, to the extend that she does not even care the risk of crashing, she crashed because she don't care, has nothing to do with women cannot do things better than men.
8:32 , jesus what happened to the flying car?
That's hers. The car was wrecked, but she hit an elastic safety net and a camera booth that both buckled, which saved her life. Had it been an immovable object she would've been smothered.
Michelle Muton made it in WRC group B.. what are you saying.
All these reporters wants to make a gender thing from it. But on her own channel, she never talk about this. She is all in for the race and doesn´t even care about the fact that she is one of the fewer women in the sport.
May positive energies bless you always
all the best sofia...
I watched CZcams last week, seen some videos on crashing i had now idea that was Sophia, i just got into seeing her videos shes awesome
Best of luck to her, hope to see her in f1 one day!
women can do everything better than man, its just women are cowards and scared their lives, or you should say men are forced to not care their lives in order to survive, this women is one who not care her life, to the extend that she does not even care the risk of crashing, she crashed because she don't care, has nothing to do with women cannot do things better than men.
we r still waiting
The only reason shes getting attention is cause shes a pretty girl but she has nothing to bragg about other than surviving crashes. Everyone is just being sympathetic but imo this a race she got to earn the respect.
this documentary was more about what she felt than how well she raced
Yep. She hasn't won since 2015. Only 2 wins in 96 races, all in the easiest racing series.
@@abec8211 ah no its Literally because she survived the worst crash. Its not an accomolishment its a sign she should not be driving.
Love from India 🇮🇳❤
Keepgoing and fulfil your dream.
Yes! She is inspiring! 👍
this sounds so superficial... a european girl has a greater chance than any other in the world. Hope this channel would broadcast Tatiana calderon a south american girl who already drive test F1 that has greater challenges in a european sport.
sht i mean they are a german based media company...
@Justin Halladay mhm, and whom is she related too to get that attention?
i so proud of her 💟💌
WOW^ she is amazing- 💥
@8:39^ bro wtf 💥- her car went off cam
Mercedes has always shawn respect for diversity them supporting her is just another proof
8:25 a crash not of her own doing. What? She totally bombed that corner. Am I wrong?
Goodluck
You go girl!
Auto racing of any form is a sport that women can compete and not only compete but win against men. It is not a sport like sprinting 100 where the top men would win and dominate the top women because of strength, size and testosterone advantages so in that sport and many other sports we have to separate the sexes in competitions. Strength, size and testosterone isn't a factor for auto racing and size can actually be a disadvantage in auto racing bringing too much weight in the car slowing you down. Alot of male drivers and alot of the top male drivers are 5'7" or 170 cm or shorter and thin on body size. Hell in dirt track 410 sprint car racing a 4'6" man competes and usually races well and wins from time to time, Rico Abreu. So auto racing is a sport women can compete against men and win against men and have won against men, especially currently in Hot Rod racing, in the NHRA with Brittany Force leading the points in Top Fuel, Erica Enders leading the points in Pro Stocks, and Angelle Sampey leading the points in Pro Stock Motorcycles. I have seen women win in sprint car racing with Brie Hershey winning multiple times in the 358 division and a few decades ago Erin Crocker win in the 410 sprint car division against the World of Outlaws beating the best of the best sprint car drivers, including the legendary Steve Kinser. Once women increase their numbers in auto racing winning will rapidly increase in all forms of auto racing for women.
@midnight-2021 I doubt many woman would survive in a 24 hour race, or withstanding the g force of an f1 car. But you do you I guess
@@sadrakeyhany7477 Hi Sandra; you're probably thinking about the 24 hours of LeMans. That is probably the most druling race out there.
The idea of creating a Formula 1 charter exclusively for female drivers is still on the table, and I hope that they actually do it.
I am Colombian and we have a female driver that has been able to survive all the attacks of her male counter parts; her name is Tatiana Calderón. I believe she is still working for the BMW team as a test pilot, and she is still featured as the ONLY female driver in the F123 video game.
So, "where thereis a will, thereis a way."
@MrMonoyo in traditional race cars? Absolutely, woman are not at a big disadvantage. But any racing series requiring major physical endurance is off the table due to how unfair it would be. F1 is just one example
Why at 8:32 do we care about her when a car Is iterally flying
I just saw another comment of someone who said it was her in the flying car
In her 96 race career so far, she has only 2 wins, 1 pole position, and 5 fastest laps, and it has been 4 years since her last win.
The only way she will make F1 is through affirmative action quotas.
Every man in F1 these days trains and drives like Senna. There are no more rich playboys to pass easily. There are dozens of Senna-caliber men in motor racing, but women still haven't had even a Rubens Barrichello.
No there is one daddys money guy in f1 lance stroll
Every man is anything but true there are many that don't make it in f1 you mean every profecional f1 driver and still are many that stay at midfield and Sena like what's Sena like driving Sena was great BECAUSE he didn't follow any rulles BECAUSE he had instinct he was great BECAUSE you can't learn that edit: yes he tested times and statistics but everybody did also the way Sena drove was different because those reason's
Bruh have you heard of lance stroll
@Rafale I’m talking about how the comment says there are no more rich or pay drivers any more while that is exactly who lance stroll is.
I m 18 years old Indian girl.....what's the probability of me becoming a mechanical engineer at F1 if I get Btech degree in mechanical engineering from IIT??
Search race engineering courses.
Learn french
Hi frends,do you know how can i become driver like this girl ? I really love to do it but i dont know what to do for start race this car? !!! i dont know how much money i need and how can i start ,i live in uk ,would be nice if anyone send me some advice ,i realy love to do it 🙋
Ok, first you have to be rich. If you want to make it to f3 you have to go through the other stages of motorsport (karting then f4). In order to get a seat in f4 you must prove yourself in karting first and then bring your money to f4 then hopefully if ur good and u win a championship you might be asked to join a f3 team ( assuming you still have financial backing). Also I don’t know how old you are but this has to be done fairly young. Hope this helps
Just do reference karting can cost anywhere from 2k to 25k a year. Some spend more (mostly the super serious kids hoping to make it to f1)
If you are passionate about motorsport but don’t want to get a second mortgage in your house just look up sim racing (it’s a great alternative)
@@sam-sj1nc thank you for your advice , i'm not rich 😔
@@meryalmeryall7297 I’m not either, I’d love to race if I was tho
It will be just a dream
So far just another average driver. Better than most females but not yet quick enough
Way to go girl!!! Still i think she is better than Calderon
is she flying 00:08:30 ..??
Yes
She will never make it to Fomula 1. Unfortunately.
lol.... Schuster, bleib bei deinen Leisten. No way to endure the whole Race. Only possible rank is the last :D
When is the next F1 woman race to have
i thought it was tatiana calderon
That crash was her fault though...
Actually it wasn't. Read up on the crash
she`s a great example for those women who still stuck in feminism ,gender things and not focus on their skills.
Curious Person no
🙏🙏🙏🙏🇨🇦🇨🇦🇨🇦
She would be awesome to watch on formula E
To become f1 champion she is going to have to invest in English lessons and get a lot more consistent per lap and win everything in these lower categories. She is running out of time fast.
Kewl
She is beautiful 🤗
8:25 "..a crash - no fault of her own.." whose fault was it then ?
She was hit from behind and pushed into the wall.
@@vilemonkey if that happened, there should be a video of it, or at least official conclusion of what caused accident, with names of all involved in collision, i haven't seen that, if you can find it please post link in reply
The driver in front braked way before the braking point, she was also going for an overtake and was clearly surprised by the brake check. She definitely couldn't have avoided the crash
no one cared about the person that is in that car flying
Wonder woman cause the flying! 🤗 ..before the accident nobody knew who she was ...now she is out there! So glad you are ok ... things happen for a reason ..👌 ..pedal to the meta girl! Good luck
I have huge respect for her as a female driver, although if you do not look at her gender she is an absolutely horrible driver...
Yujleni thi
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I think she's more interested in becoming an Instagram star than a world champion. My sense is she was born into wealth and privilege and this is her fun hobby.
All formula 1 stars are born into wealth. About f3 I don't know
Jonathan Hansson not all but most of them are
She has it good
That has to be the dumbest comment I've read all day.
We need positivity and support for her. If you want to go get a dream do it instead of taking people down. Don’t waste your precious energy.
Alright, Captain Marvel go 'head, girl!! 🙌
Not allowed to dri've on the streets but competes in Formula. One of those aspiring drivers looking to make it to 40 points without a drivers license
Ain't gonna happen
😍 she's beautiful 😛
This can't be happened!
Why? Bc she’s a woman
She'll never get to formula 1 in my opinion
she got the fastest lap but there was nobody around her lol
I agree if she can’t get a podium in f3 there is no way she will do good in f1
sofia sera campeã mundial de formula 1 o dia que os outros pilotos ficarem em casa . Melhor ir se especializar em cuidar da casa dos filhos e ser uma boa esposa que terá mais sorte
🤣
She is the right height but looks too heavy to be a racing driver at this level especially for a 17 year old girl.
Her crash in Macou probably did her more promotion for her than ner driving ability.
Good luck... But we all know it's not going to happen.
Its really worrying how certain far left ideologues celebrate women engaging in what is considered male behavior.
Being a race driver, a ceo, an athlete .. Its like there is no room for women to be women anymore. At least in action because talk has been always cheap.
No idea what you're talking about, but you sound like you need some Contrapoints in your life.
Oh no, she's doing what she loves...how horrible! A female Formula 3 racer? Next time, they'll take away your first-born!
@@TheChickenRiceBowl Do I , why ? Whats so special about that channel ?
@@ScapeRuneQ And Im more than fine with that, in fact Im very supportive about people doing what they love. Im not the one telling people "dont do gender stereotypical things".
Was I wrong there? About anything ? I dont get it, I never said there is something wrong with her, whats your excuse ?
@@alexandert696 It'd probably help you simmer down a little.