25K fine for David Reynolds....

The modern perspective is that women have a right to do what they want but - as with all workers - exploitation and/or sexism aint legit. It seems for the individual employee, while being objectified for work purposes has its benefits it also comes at a cost.

Reynolds got fined for denigrating a fellow competitor in a rather nasty way.

How do you think his sponsors would react if his vehicle was nicknamed "The Wheeled-Penis" or the "C@ck-mobile"?
 
How do you think his sponsors would react if his vehicle was nicknamed "The Wheeled-Penis" or the "C@ck-mobile"?
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Forget the sponsors. I tend to think the description could be close the mark. :D
 
Were it nicknamed "The Cockmobile" I'm sure red Rooster or Nando's would step up with a sponsorship offer.
 
addo said:
Were it nicknamed "The Cockmobile" I'm sure red Rooster or Nando's would step up with a sponsorship offer.
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Fair point.

I guess if it were called the Tosser Trolley sponsors like JP Morgan, Macquarie Group Limited, Barclays and their ilk would be queuing to get their logos plastered over the car...
 
Context and the way it is said is everything. He deserves a fine but $25G - don't know how wealthy these guys are. Could be like a pee into a bushfire for them?
I did notice he praised them almost right after without being prompted.

Grid girls being exploited - perhaps, depending what uniform they are 'forced' to wear. Recall an Austrian F1 GP where the girls were dressed in their national costume which is conservative by non Muslim standards :wink2:.
In my daughters case it was just extra income when she was a student. Never saw what she was wearing and didn't want to see.
 
I've been subjected to workplace sexual harassment by men and women. Offers of sex, deliberate undressing or hopping into bed while you're working in a bedroom, repeated touching, patting, groping, tweaking... The one-offs, you can usually laugh and brush away, but when it's repeated and persistent, and the protagonist has established their relationship with you in such a fashion that you are essentially "trapped" (if you want the income) it can make you feel very unhappy.

Thus, I fail to see the point of fostering environments that seem to encourage harassment.
 
Sounds like something you would have read in Auto Action in the 1970s.

alexander said:
"pussy wagon" is verbally crude, and overall sounds derogatory.
the presence of attractive women lacks both of those elements.

anyone in front of a camera should realise that doing the 'right thing' eg not coming across as insulting women, is critically important in the 21st century. furthermore, if outfits like V8 Supercar management dont respond with something non trivial, then they get criticised too. so whatever one thinks about the expression personally, seems to me that the response is entirely appropriate and necessary, pragmatically speaking.
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Maybe with hindsight, pussy wagon was closer to the mark than political correctness allowed at the time.

It turns out that motor racing does not pay anywhere near as much as Porn.
7news.com.au

Former V8 driver now earning $1m a year after switch to porn goes public

Renee Gracie’s shock career move went viral last week and now the history-making driver has hit the jackpot.
7news.com.au 7news.com.au
 
I have heard that phrase for 60 years or so. I knew a woman who used it to describe her own vehicle. This thing is ridiculous.
 
I think she has a subscription only service..

Jo
 
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