SUSIE WOLFF

I'm not like other females. I'm obviously different because of the path I've taken. I'm just as aggressive as the guys when I get my helmet on. Plus F1 is not just about taking risks, but knowing when to take risks and when to back off. It's also about strategy and managing your tyres.

We are going to have to go through generations of change before we see the impact of females taking a role in the workplace and Formula 1 is no different.

Sir Stirling Moss, who said that women don't have the mental aptitude to take part in F1, is from a different generation. There's no reason why women can't rise to the top in F1. If you're not good enough you don't survive.

Because it was my decision to stop racing, I feel fine not being a driver anymore.

It's not a man's world any more.

As soon as you start listening to the gossip surrounding you, you just get dragged down by it.

The reality is that family is on the cards in the future. But you know in motorsport if you take yourself off to have children, you won't come back, partly as you're quickly forgotten in this sport.

I was always an adrenaline junkie, always competitive, always a speed freak.

Ultimately, a women's only championship is not going to get more females into motorsport as a whole.

I'm a great believer that if you knock on enough doors and stay at the level maybe an opportunity comes.

If I was to turn around now and say that motorsport should be segregated, then my whole career would have been for nothing. Every result that I have achieved on my own would stand for nothing, if I couldn't compete against male drivers.

As F1 is a male-dominated environment, you have to prove yourself. And first of all that means being given the chance to prove yourself.

In Formula E, because it has that structure of being quite cost-controlled and partly standardised, it means a small team or big manufacturer, if you get it right you have a chance for success which is great.

Love it or hate it, motorsport is not purely talent. It never has been and never will be.

A woman can be physically fit enough to drive a Formula 1 car. I did the race distance in Barcelona so I have proved that it is possible.

I never let my gender define me but in my whole driving career I only ever did one interview not being asked about being a female.

I was very lucky in that my parents supported my racing so much - they just said 'whatever you want to achieve, if you work hard enough you can achieve it.' They never, ever let me believe that, as a female, I couldn't compete in a man's world.

I loved the speed of go-karting, but didn't have a lot of natural talent. The first time I went out on the track I found it scary; other karts were flying past and bumping into me.

There's no prize for being the best woman.

Men are much more egotistical. But that means women can accept criticism and improve easier than men can.

We need to get more women into sport, whether that's young girls in karting or off the track. The more we get into sport, the more you are going to get rising to the top of the sport.

An all-women championship is giving up on the mission of eventually making girls compete on a high level and against the boys in Formula One. It is undermining what girls are able to achieve.

If there's 10,000 little boys racing around the world and there's only 10 girls, best case 100, the numbers are stacked massively against us. If you don't increase the talent pool of young girls, you're not going to get the best drivers at the top.

I'm simply trying to go as far as I can go in racing.

As a woman people judge you on your looks regardless of the fact you're just there to race.