I just don't want to be standing there when you tell Tannis Hammond that
she is inferior to men and must compete in her own class....
However.... if you decide your going to tell Bridget Krompass this.... (
the ECTA's First Female in the 200mph club ).... I'm going to be the one to
tell her.... getting beat up by this little girl might be FUN.....
Keith ( I didn't say that.... I'll deny it till the day I die... and Miss
Kathy still won't believe me )
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> From: Malcolm Pittwood <MPittwood@compuserve.com>
> To: LSR List <land-speed@autox.team.net>
> Subject: Women's LSR
> Date: Tuesday, December 11, 2001 3:38 PM
>
> Whilst on water for a while there was an official Women's category for
> record attempts, this has never been the case on land.
>
> Of course women have driven the official jet record holding cars of the
day
> to take the 'title', but they did not break any 'official' record (which
> usually means the FIA speed). The fastest woman on land Kitty O'Neil
drove
> a rocket car that did not itself achieve an official outright LSR.
>
> Call it what you will Louise, Paula Murphy and others did not set
> 'recognised' records at over 200mph, which appears to me to be part of
the
> Bonneville 200 mph club rules.
>
> If you wish to lobby for a Women's land speed record category I would
> support that, but would the SCTA double it's number of classes at a
stroke?
>
> In these PC days would it not be better to support women racers who
compete
> in LSR directly with the men? Why not get a competent person into a new
> car to go after Andy Green's record or Don Vesco's record?
>
> Paula Elstrick in Australia is of course working with Rosco McGlashan to
> take the 'single jet engine' record (even though the FIA have yet to
> provide a class to this description) and to go faster than Kitty O'Neil..
>
> Malcolm Pittwood, Derby, England.
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