{"id":519097,"date":"2025-10-22T07:53:11","date_gmt":"2025-10-22T07:53:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/519097\/"},"modified":"2025-10-22T07:53:11","modified_gmt":"2025-10-22T07:53:11","slug":"the-mercedes-f1-women-inspiring-schoolgirls-into-motorsport","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/519097\/","title":{"rendered":"The Mercedes F1 women inspiring schoolgirls into motorsport"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Imogen Tait, 27, the charity and community outreach activities lead at Mercedes F1, said: &#8220;An event like this would have allowed me to believe much earlier on that there was just as much right for me to be in this sport as anybody else.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Reliability engineer student Lauren O&#8217;Mahony, 20, said: &#8220;I think it&#8217;s so important to give them that tangible part, as it really connects your learning to what you could do in the future.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Amy Scerri, 20, a composite manufacturing engineer student, said she had been to a similar event at school and wanted to give back.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;I think it&#8217;s incredibly impactful to teach young girls what engineering is at a young age so that they can make informed decisions about it, because I only found out what engineering was almost too late.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Brackley caretaker Jodie Norman, who attended the event with a group of students, said: &#8220;I think it just broadens their horizons and they&#8217;re not just narrowed to what they see or what what they &#8216;should&#8217; be doing as girls.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Imogen Tait, 27, the charity and community outreach activities lead at Mercedes F1, said: &#8220;An event like this&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":519098,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4103],"tags":[4199,707,4200,79,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-519097","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\/115416740927344629","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/519097","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=519097"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/519097\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/519098"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=519097"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=519097"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=519097"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}