{"id":518072,"date":"2025-10-21T22:29:10","date_gmt":"2025-10-21T22:29:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/518072\/"},"modified":"2025-10-21T22:29:10","modified_gmt":"2025-10-21T22:29:10","slug":"susie-wolff-a-relentless-drive-to-the-top-of-formula-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/518072\/","title":{"rendered":"Susie Wolff: A relentless drive to the top of Formula 1"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">But it was, and still is, a world dominated by men. And, at times, that had a darker side. Susie, who has just released her autobiography Driven, tells how on one occasion she rebuffed someone who she describes as a powerful figure in F1. He came to her hotel room and tried, unsuccessfully, to get in.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8221;There was such an imbalance of power. That was someone who had huge power and I remember being scared. But then he did apologise, and I felt at the time that I just had to move on, because that was what the sport was.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;And thankfully for me, it didn&#8217;t turn into being anything more sinister, but I&#8217;m aware that that&#8217;s not always the case for women, and I&#8217;m glad that our sport has moved on from that and that now.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;If something like that would happen, you can put your hand up and say, &#8221;Look, this happened&#8221; and you will be listened to, and there is someone you can tell.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"But it was, and still is, a world dominated by men. And, at times, that had a darker&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":518073,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4103],"tags":[4199,707,4200,79,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-518072","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-f1","8":"tag-f1","9":"tag-formula-1","10":"tag-formula1","11":"tag-sports","12":"tag-uk","13":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115414523189594565","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/518072","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=518072"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/518072\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/518073"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=518072"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=518072"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=518072"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}