Alpine has announced the launch of its ‘Rac(H)er’ programme, which aims to increase female representation in the company throughout all sectors.
This includes direct changes to its own driver roster, and forms part of the Renault Group’s long-term goal outlined in the 2021 ‘Renaulution strategic plan’.
The team says that females currently make up just 12 per cent of the company’s workforce, while its F1 team has just 10 per cent of female representation.
The programme will start with investment in local STEM (Science, technology, engineering and mathematics) programmes, encouraging women to pursue careers in those fields.
In five years’ time, Alpine aims to see 30 per cent of its workforce being made up of females, as it pledges to recruit trainees and graduates on a 50-50 basis between males and females.
Although it is looking to increase diversity across all its sectors, Alpine has outlined that it is keen to encourage female drivers and pledges to “identify, from an early age, young female karters who want to enter Formula 1”.
The team also says that it will conduct scientific studies to identify ideal training methods for young female drivers in an effort to bring them to F1.
As part of this plan, “substantial resources will be allocated to the realisation of this programme to give women drivers the same chances to succeed as the greatest champions trained by the Academy and thus to move from karting to F4, then from regional championships to F3 and finally from F2 to F1”.
Laurent Rossi, Alpine CEO, said of the programme: “Our role, as a Formula 1 team and a brand of the Renault Group is to commit to making our ecosystem more inclusive and making diversity our strength.
“We are aware of the need for a profound transformation of both the sport and the industry so that all talents can flourish in the future.
“By launching Rac(H)er, this long-term transformation programme, we hope to be joined by all the players in the sector, because it is only by uniting that we will be able to make real progress. And that would be our real success.”
Here we go again, more diversity nonsense that will lead to F1 being filled by people who just want to collect a paycheck rather than people who live and breathe the sport. Just like blacks, if women actually had a genuine interest in F1, there would be more involved. Neither care about F1 on a large scale and it’s entirely realistic that this could never change. It’s actually much easier for women to get a job than men based on their gender alone, and this is very obvious by the amount of women around the world in extremely powerful positions who clearly aren’t even fit to flip burgers, and only got where they are based on gender alone. The same goes for skin color. And this not an attack on any gender or race on what they can or cannot do — neither should even be recognised when it comes to selecting employees — it’s just a fact that “diversity” and race/gender being the the #1 qualification to fill jobs rather than talent has lead to soulless paycheck collectors running everything, which has created an incompetent world that is probably beyond repair. Enjoy what little is left of F1, because it won’t last long.
We often people talking about diversity, and claiming it will make their company better. Why? They never tell us that, they just state it as an unchallengeable truth. Why would it make a company better to have more women, or blacks, or disabled, or more of any particular group? Why would it benefit a company run entirely by blacks, or one consisting only of women, to bring in whites, or men? Not that anyone has ever suggested such a thing, but presumably the unchallengeable truth applies both ways. If a company has a team of, let’s say, chemists, and they are all Japanese women, why would it improve the company to bring in a black woman chemist? Why would it improve a company with a board of all black men to add a white woman in a wheelchair?
There’s no logic behind this nonsense, beyond companies seeking to signal their virtue to woke activists in the hope they’ll wave their silly placards about bringing down national borders, and chant their silly slogans praising Stalin outside somebody else’s offices.