"I think the obstacle comes watching racing on TV and you're seeing all these men going over the wall and you don't see the women there. "There's definitely space for women anywhere in a race team," Hutton said.
New Faces of Automotive Enthusiasm: Patrice Banks.Director April Wright on Stuntwomen and Hollywood.Hutton told me she knew she wanted to work in racing but had no idea there were so many different kinds of jobs in the high-tech world of modern motorsports. This worked out as planned for Rebecca Hutton, who was one of the 2022 interns, and who will be joining Ganassi Racing as a simulations engineer for 2023. The goal is both to bring attention to the importance of diversity in motorsports hiring and to act as a pipeline for women in STEM studies to graduate into full-time positions. The Women in Motorsport (WIM) program offers three paid internships working with the Chip Ganassi Racing Indycar teams. That's why initiatives like the PNC Bank and Chip Ganassi Racing Women in Motorsport internship are so beneficial, and why it's great news to hear that Ganassi Racing is repeating the program for 2023, with plans to continue it in the future. This isn't entirely due to the evils of sexism: There aren't as many women as men applying for racing jobs, and often young women studying engineering and mechanics don't even realize motorsport work is an option. So it is improving, but at that rate, it's going to take nearly a century to achieve anything close to parity. Data graphs on the career site Zippia show that the balance of male to female motorsports techs has gone from 96.1 percent male in 2010 to 92.3 percent in 2021. Now I can say from personal experience-almost 20 years covering various forms of racing-that it's noticeably better than it was when I was a baby motorsports reporter, and that's not just me imagining things.
Hang out at the track, any track (although some forms are doing better than others) and it becomes clear that there aren't too many women working in the garages or suiting up for the hot pits. It's easy to talk about improving diversity in motorsports, harder to make any lasting change.
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