Joan Newton Cuneo, racecar driver, ~1910

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Joan Newton Cuneo, racecar driver, ~1910
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🎶 Joan-y was a racecar driver. She drove so goddamn fast 🎶

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She never did win no checkered flags
But she never did come in last

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joan_Newton_Cuneo

So good the cowards banned women from competing in races to keep her out. Fragile snowflakes.

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Need movies about these women.

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I would be more curious to find out more about why they were banning women from racing. It doesn’t sound like it was a universal push from the drivers, and the manufacturers she drove with seemed happy to have her. Sexism is obviously the problem, but what were they afraid of? If more women were racing they would leave their husbands and neglect their children?

I’m also curious to know more about the murder charges her mechanic beat. When I see the son of a wealthy family has been acquitted of murder charges I’m more likely to suspect he was actually guilty but had powerful attorneys.

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Sexism is obviously the problem, but what were they afraid of?

Administrators tend to think in the abstract - they’ll revert to what they believe in. Participants tend to think in-context - they can ignore what they believe in if the milieu functions to their liking.

Racers see another racer first, another lovable lunatic with a lead foot who understands the thrill of the race, and a woman second. She’s not a woman, per se, she’s One Of Us.

The suits saw a woman first and foremost.

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This is awesome thanks for sharing.

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This doesn’t look safe.

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I’m going to have to look up þe cars and rules - is þat just a steam tank wiþout a boiler? Þat would be pretty interesting - you get filled up wiþ steam at pitstops, instead of petrol. It’d make a light vehicle wiþ incredible acceleration, compared to ICEs of þe day, and since you’re going around in circles, pitstops are regular and you don’t have to worry about range. It’d also add more strategy, because you can accelerate less quickly at each circuit, and you have to strategically consider wheþer to make anoþer or stop and charge up to get more oomph. Rules could normalize pressure and volume to regulate for driver skill over technical merit of þe vehicle, as in today’s tourneys. What a fascinating concept.

Plus, your car could literally explode at any moment, and crashes potentially spectacularly fatal. Racers would be true daredevils. I see no downsides.

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