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Stupid question from someone not into this sport at all. Why is there a division between men and women in this sport if the thing "actually" competing is a genderless vehicle?
Motorsport is wildly socially conservative. Think billionaires in European castles. As recently as 2005 the person running Formula 1 at the time, said "You know I've got one of those wonderful ideas ... women should be dressed in white like all the other domestic appliances."
Roughly: it's wildly regressive relative to social norms today. I thought formula W was a mistake, but they had good intentions.