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Ah **** it. I'm wrong. You're all right. Hopefully next weekend at the Amex, there will be a hundred or so stunning, large-breasted women strutting around the pitch in bikinis before the game, waving and smiling benignly. In fact, come on: let's make them topless too. It'll bring so much more...

THEY ARE THE COMPETITORS, FFS. Nobody is making an issue of what the competitors wear. The issue here is women in not much clothing strutting around the grid for no valid reason other than the gratification of (mostly, I assume) male viewers. It's dated. It's condescending.

Have I just woken up in 1950?

The men you refer to are competing in the sport itself, as you well know. They're not prancing around waving banners simply to promote the sport to dribbling men.

An advertising industry which from its formative years was almost exclusively occupied by men, yes. When product advertising first became a thing however many years ago, the concepts of attractiveness and gender roles would have been conceived and promoted by those males, and many of those...

Men in Formula One are not employed for looking good. They are employed to drive cars fast (or design cars, or fix cars, or pay for them etc). I realise there are some women in those roles too, albeit not very many. That's probably down to existing gender preconceptions- whilst nobody stops...

I'd suggest you have absolutely no idea whether they enjoy their jobs or not. It just suits you to assume that they do.

I'm offended (not really sure it's the right word in these circumstances- perhaps irritated is more accurate) for myself thanks very much, not for them. It's patronising of you to suggest otherwise. It's a free country, and these women can of course do as they please, employment wise. I assume...

I wonder what would happen if they had only young men doing the pom pom waving? Presumably you'd be all in favour of that too.

Of course it is. Do they have men in tight clothing doing the same thing? No they don't. I'm not offended on behalf of anybody. I just happen to think using attractive women in tiny outfits for the titillation of (essentially) men at a sporting event is a tiresome and outdated concept. You want...

What would you prefer? Some hot guys in tight clothing joining the ladies prancing around amid the cars on the grid? I assume that's not what you're asking for, ergo the current situation is sexist and outdated.