Formula One's grid girls are to be replaced with "grid kids" - young karters and aspiring racing drivers. The children will be selected by each grand prix's national sporting authority, with 20 of ...

Grid girls love what they do and wouldn't do it if they felt pressured into uncomfortable situations, Hannah James writes. The 27-year-old has been a grid girl for motorcycle racing for nine years ...

Grid girls will no longer feature in Formula 1 from the start of the 2018 season. The sport announced the move ahead of the new campaign, which begins in March, after deciding that the long ...

Bernie Ecclestone, 87 year old former chief executive of the sport, has also defended the grid girls, saying in an interview with Sky News: "These girls did nothing harmful to anybody.

“GRID girls” have been scrapped from Formula One, the sport’s organisers have said. The ban takes effect from first race of the new season, the Australian Grand Prix on March 26. The role, which dates ...

Last week, former F1 supremo said that he disagreed with the decision to axe grid girls. In an interview with Sky News, he said: "These girls did nothing harmful to anybody. They were smartly dressed.

The concept of grid girls seems to pervade a message of women being primarily 'eye candy' or some form of window dressing for Formula 1, ... Grid girls pose in sky-high heels at Hockenheim, 2014. Ad.

Leading women in sport have hailed the decision to scrap grid girls from Formula One. Sign in. News ... While Sky's Formula One presenter Natalie Pinkham said it felt like a "watershed moment".

After the landmark decision to ban 'walk-on' girls in darts, Formula One has followed suit by confirming they will stop using walk-on grid girls with the start of the 2018 FIA Formula 1 World ...

The Tour de France is retaining its podium girls, after Formula 1 dropped grid girls, and furious darts fans demanded the return of walk-on girls by insisting: 'Keep the ladies where they should be' ...