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<b>NO TO ALL-FEMALE F1:</b> Susie Wolff (above) has slammed Bernie Ecclestone's suggestions of an all-female F1 series. <i>Image: AFP / Bernd Weissbrod</i>
<b>NO TO ALL-FEMALE F1:</b> Susie Wolff (above) has slammed Bernie Ecclestone's suggestions of an all-female F1 series. <i>Image: AFP / Bernd Weissbrod</i>

PARIS, France - What a shame that Formula 1's next stop will be China (April 12) because its notoriously protest-intolerant government surely wouldn't look kindly on crowds of demonstrators venting against Bernie Ecclestone's latest put-down of women drivers.

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 their cause.

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