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How to help women F1 drivers? Put one in every team

What a shame that Formula One's next stop is China. Because its notoriously protest-intolerant government surely wouldn't look kindly on crowds of demonstrators venting against Bernie Ecclestone's latest putdown of women drivers. 'For some reason, women are not coming through -- and not because we don't want them,' says Bernie Ecclestone. AP Photo/Wong Maye-E Yet people should vent. Because there's a whiff of sexual apartheid in the latest madcap suggestion from F1's billionaire boss that teams should launch a championship exclusively for women. Segregating female drivers in a separate, second-fiddle series that few fans will watch cannot be the best way to advance...
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