Susie Wolff: ‘I can be very punchy and pragmatic. If I have to fight for something, I’ll fight’

<p>Head of F1 Academy explains how close she came to a grand prix debut, her quest to produce female drivers and a frightening knock on her hotel room door by a powerful man in the sport</p><p>“There was a deep loneliness to karting, and then definitely in single-seaters, because no one else was going through the same thing as me,” says Susie Wolff as she remembers her long struggle in motorsport, from racing as a teenager against Lewis Hamilton and Nico Rosberg to her determined, but unfulfilled, quest to become a Formula One driver.</p><p>“After the whole #MeToo movement, we forget what it was like before. But the way I heard boys talking about girls in the paddock made me think I never want to be spoken about in that way. I realised I’d have to be whiter than white to get through it unscathed.”</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2025/nov/12/susie-wolff-f1-academy-female-drivers-interview">Continue reading...</a>