Quotes from Susie Wolff

We need to get more women into sport, whether that's young girls in karting or off the track. The more we get into sport, the more you are going to get rising to the top of the sport.

We have two issues - not enough young girls starting in karting at a young age and no clear role model. Sometimes you just have to see it to believe it.

When I decided to stop racing, I really wanted to give something back to the sport and for me it was always going to be about inspiring young girls and women.

I think as much as people talk about Scotland as being a place where it's raining all the time it's a fantastic country. Considering it's such a small country you have to realise how successful it's been in the world of motor sport.

I'm a great believer that if you knock on enough doors and stay at the level maybe an opportunity comes.

The vision becomes reality. Linking talent with opportunity.

I never thought of myself as a role model, but I've had so many messages from girls, women, mothers saying I was an inspiration.

When I did my first media interviews after I was announced as a team principal, the first question was, what qualifies you for the job? The second question was, did your husband place you in the role? And the third was, how are you going to do your job as a mother? I was speechless to think that we were not making any progress.

I was always an adrenaline junkie, always competitive, always a speed freak.

I loved the speed of go-karting, but didn't have a lot of natural talent. The first time I went out on the track I found it scary; other karts were flying past and bumping into me.

I'm not a girl racer, I save my speed for the race track.

An all-women championship is giving up on the mission of eventually making girls compete on a high level and against the boys in Formula One. It is undermining what girls are able to achieve.

Nobody says Nico Rosberg is only in F1 because his dad was a famous racing driver who funded his karting career and helped him get into F1. It s a bit unfair just to focus on the fact that my husband is in F1 and it's the only reason I'm in an F1 car.

It's all very well to talk about how it would be great to have a woman driver, a woman with sponsors and marketing, that's all great but to get into that drive you have to perform. That's what I realized early on when I got into Formula One.

I think we all, as drivers, come to the table with a package. It's either your speed and raw talent, your sponsorship money, your nationality. For me, one of my unique selling points is my gender, without a doubt.

Every racing driver in the world dreams of making it to F1, there's only 22 spots on the grid.

If you are a successful woman, that can inspire the next generation.

I like being feminine, it's my way of not conforming to the stereotype that if you're a racing driver you don't care how you look.

We have to stop this stereotype that for girls it's about being in pink and horse riding. We need to teach kids to think outside the box, to dare girls to be different.

There always will be stereotypes that women can't drive. When I hear the comments, it just makes me more determined to prove them wrong.

It's very important to me to give something back - to pass on my know-how, to give all the lessons I learned onto the next generation so they don't make the same mistakes.

I love reading fashion magazines, buying handbags, the usual things - but when you're in the moment and focusing on setting up the car, how you look is so irrelevant.

I have the deepest admiration for Angela Palmer and her work so having my helmet as her subject has been a true honour for me. I think the sculpture is stunning and very striking, it's the most incredible combination of strength with fragility.

I'm a development driver, which means I'll be doing a lot of work in the simulator.