No more grid girls at WEC

[Jason]

WEC announced yesterday that the era of grid girls is over, posted on their facebook page this morning:

Dear ‪#‎WEC‬ Fans,here's a small message about the news that there'll be longer grid girls at our races:

WEC garages, paddocks, grandstands, hospitality & media rooms full of beautiful women, always much appreciated by everyone not just before start. We have many more beautiful women who work with the WEC than just those holding number panels.

On the grid we believe cars are the beauties & LM-style start echoes Spirit of Le Mans ethos communicated in all we do.

i have to be honest, as a sport we are Way past their time. In a way it wouldn't have been so bad if there had also been grid-boys, to attract some females to the crowd, I know a few series in the UK tried that, but it didn't work. But while we are trying to say that motorsport is as much for women, they can be engineers, drivers, senior team personnel, why are we then dressing them up is skintight clothes to 'promote' the sport in a male biased way?

Having spoken to a few of the girls over the years, I also know that a lot of them like doing it, and fair play to them for doing so. But there has to be a middle ground. F1 doesn't do scantilly clad brolly dollies, but dresses them to look like air hostesses. Perhaps, a mix of male/female in 'traditional' dress on the grid could have been a way forward?

Also, the traditional pit wall herringbone grid lineup will return for each round

[lofty]

Barry Sheene would turn in his grave.

[lofty]

No more of these?

[lofty]

these

[lofty]

even old black and white ones?

[Lorry]

Whoever wrote that doesn't understand English either.

Is this the result of yet another EU directive?

[Boorish Grobian]

This is another case of political correctness run amok.  Good fricking grief, we're being reduced to a bunch of panty wearing candy-asses.  At the end of the WEC races are they going to give everyone a trophy, so that way no one loses, and everyone gets a bag of orange slices & a juice box.  As Lofty said, Sheene, and Hunt are puking in their graves.
Fax

[Jason]

BG, as a society we have grown up since the days of Hunt and Sheene.

[lofty]

You might have, but loads of us ave not.I feel the need for a protest. I can imagine( i am a bit pissed though) the Club Arnarge grid geezers parade on friday down the pit straight We all know a few blokes who thrive on dressing up like birds. Lee would make a great lead pom pom girl/cheer leader.

[Boorish Grobian]

Not always grown up for the better.  In forty-four years of attending racing of every conceivable discipline, I can never once remember hearing any man, woman, or child complaining about the sight of grid, or brolly girls at a race.  I suppose the memories of Paul Newman posing with the Hawaiian tropic girls before the start in 1979 are best resigned to memory anyway, the sport is a pathetic shadow of what is was then.
I'd like to find out how I can get the job of coming up with asinine directives like a ban on grid girls, some bright spark is probably getting paid good money to sit at a desk and come up with nonsense like that.  This actually working for a living is for the birds (no offense to birds intended, someone might be put off, gotta be careful).
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[lofty]

Her indoors was a Gordons gin boatshow bird for a bit, loads of money.

[Grand_Fromage]

This blog post sums up quite well my response to the WEC grid-girls decision :

http://www.f1fanatic.co.uk/2015/04/03/why-f1-should-adopt-the-wecs-ban-on-grid-girls/

[Boorish Grobian]

Who knew after all the years that brolly girls are the spawn of Satan!  This is laughable, my wife has been attending races for years, seen countless grid girls and has never once felt insulted, or demeaned by what they represent, hell, she's had her photo taken with Pirelli girls at Sebring.  She purchased a Honda Civic a few years ago, and I can safely say that whether or not Honda has grid girls at a race, was never a factor in her decision.   This is the WEC trying to be seen as forward thinking, or clever, but its much ado about nothing.  If someone is sitting around genuinally bothered about the social and moral impact of brolly girls? For crying out loud, they make medication for that...
There are far more important issues facing motor racing, and the world as a whole.
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[Snoring Rhino]

BG, as a society we have grown up since the days of Hunt and Sheene.

No it hasn't, it has always been a part of the grid razamatazz, also a good gig for models to earn from. They will be sacking Jeramy Clarkson next.

[Barry]

Don't think the teams publicity girls are banned, just the girls who hold the grid position boards and the brollies. Whether ACO will join in, we will have to see.
Silverstone can probably be blamed for this, after last years WEC, when 3 of the girls had to be treated for hypothermia because they hadn't been issued with suitable kit.
However the job will still have to be done, new career move for Leighla?