Formula 1 to stop using Grid Girls [Update: Replaced with "Grid Kids" (see post #549)]
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So instead of sexy women they're being replaced with......young children?
.........who are they catering to again?
.........who are they catering to again?
Young karters who get to be up close to their heroes and their machinery.
Grid Kids is a good idea. Like how football teams walk out with kids before the match. Girls and boys. It's a positive change.
To the kids, who compete in Junior categories and karting. This gives them a chance to be close to their heroes and be inspired. This is infinitely better than Grid Girls.
I'm sure they'll land on their feet. F1 was hardly the only gig looking for pretty people.
This is a nice change overall.
To what end? Unlike the WEC and Formula E, they've massaged a molehill of a controversy into a mountain of international publicity for themselves.
Bad publicity isn't necessarily good publicity in the age of social media.
Pure bad publicity isn't, but this kind of particularly divisive, ambiguous controversy is. Bratches was at ESPN for about a million years, and handled their marketing for over a decade. If you listened to some of the nonsensical guff he came out with to justify the recent logo change, it's obvious he knows what he's doing and is looking to get a calculated rise out of the public wherever it makes sense. They've been staggering the news on this one for maximum effect, from teasing the decision last year to now announcing the grid kids a week late.
There junior series and karting kids.
They are already rich....if they get much id be shocked.
What wouldnt shock me is if they actually pay something to be in the pool of those chosen to be grid kids like some sort of extra membership fee.
P.S In case people dont know getting into racing is a very expensive thing even in lower series people invest alot of money gain sponsorship deal etc etc, most drivers by the time they are in F1 are already very comfortably rich by 20.
love the Grid Kids. It's like how they have kids in Soccer. Probably a move that should have been made years ago tbh
Not quite, this is the rich kids from the karting and junior racing series stuff.
Mascots in football are usually charity or local community based. yes, they're are places you can buy but even then it's available to anyone who wants to pony up the money. F1 is keeping this entire thing in-house and fenced off.
Lmao come on.
It's still lame though, there's room on the track for both women and the youth.
Great. Are they also getting rid of podium girls as well? Couldn't see anything scan reading the article.
Hopefully MotoGP will also follow suit. Also I hope the women that are affected can find jobs.
Hopefully MotoGP will also follow suit. Also I hope the women that are affected can find jobs.
I doubt they'll fully go away. There are still promotors, sponsors and too rich old guys.
Then just pray your kid has the talent to keep up with the other rich kids.
Hell if you have enough dollars talent doesnt even really matter in other series....buy your way into a team.
Take them to tasters for their age range. If they are into it you get them to do the training sessions whilst learning to take the relevant tests all this depends on where you live, most circuits will provide karts for this but once you have done the introduction based stuff you will need to buy one as well as a transponder, helmet, boots, gloves and the protective clothing required. Different nations have slightly different variations on the type of karts they can drive and you will be limited to the sort of karting your kid can be involved in by whats available at your local circuits unless you are prepared to travel.
This is all racing from the bottom all the way to the top. Hamilton is the outliest of outliers.
Cool idea. Kids getting to go to an F1 race, be a part of it, meet their heroes, and I am jealous.
I'm just waiting for someone to get pissed after the first couple of races that there aren't enough little girls being represented and how racing is exclusive to boys.
I'm just waiting for someone to get pissed after the first couple of races that there aren't enough little girls being represented and how racing is exclusive to boys.
Whilst I didn't feel there was a need to remove the Grid Girls in the first place - this is a good idea.
Forget not enough little girls.
Its gonna be all rich kids.
The 1% get everything.
i agree, still not a fan that they removed gg. nonetheless i'm okay with this alternative
I'm sure they'll make money from all the rich kids daddies paying for their grid slot appearance.
Name one woman who got "noticed" as a grid girl and moved on to bigger/better things.
Name one woman who got "noticed" as a grid girl and moved on to bigger/better things.
I am not talking about making it big but it helping them get other modelling work.
Theresa MayName one woman who got "noticed" as a grid girl and moved on to bigger/better things.
That doesn't make it any better. It is still lost work.
And what if other motor sports follow suit. The very agency you linked specializes in grid girls and motor sport
Great decision. Fully support this.
Same situation as E3 booth babes, imo.
Same situation as E3 booth babes, imo.
Of course not, this doubles as a (tiny) cost saver for the race tracks/organisers as well.
They are talented models, they will find work.
The notion you have to keep antiquated jobs around for fear of losing some jobs is silly. If they look hard they can take the great experience they got and parlay it into future success.
Grid kids is a great idea.
Screw that. I'm putting my name in the lotto and I'm going to win.
