Formula E aiming for female drivers in two to three years

LONDON, Aug 14 : Formula E hopes to see female drivers competing at championship level within the next two to three years, the all-electric series' chief executive Jeff Dodds said on Friday.Speaking to reporters ahead of a weekend that will mark 50 years since a woman last raced in Formula One, Dodds said his series would soon announce a major expansion of its women's programme."We have a hypothesis which is that men and women can compete equally in motorsport but the conditions definitely are not equal for both to compete alongside each other," he said.Formula E, whose season-ending races are at London's ExCel convention centre this weekend, has featured three female competitors - one more than in 76 years of the Formula One championship - since 2014 with the most recent being Switzerland