Further to your editorial on FIA sexism [The Editor, February], drag racing has a healthier record of female racers.
The lone female prize winner you mentioned at the FIA ceremony was Linn Engan Fløysvik, the FIA Top Methanol champion.
Normally the Top Fuel dragster champion (in this case Ida Zetterström) would represent drag racing at the ceremony, but that weekend Ida was attending the PRI Show at Indianapolis to reveal her deal to race next year in NHRA with a leading American team. We shall be disappointed to lose Ida from the European scene, but she has never kept her ambition secret.
Meanwhile Erica Enders has been NHRA Pro Stock ‘world’ champion six times. (NHRA is a North American series but everyone accepts that it is drag racing’s premier series). A second woman, Camrie Caruso, has
