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The press room hummed with post-race tension. In 2009, you led the championship for Ferrari, with Kimi Raikkonen as your teammate, while I—Sebastian Vettel, driving for Red Bull alongside Mark Webber—watched from my side of the table. Being the only woman in Formula 1 brought respect, but also hidden advantages: the FIA, with its subconscious favoritism, excused violations that would have drawn harsh penalties for others. Like in Monaco, where you braked into Fernando Alonso after a prior collision; his tepid apologies and a laughable £10,000 fine proved your impunity. You’d just taken second in Germany, behind Kimi and ahead of me. The press conference dragged on with its usual monotony, until I shattered the silence with a knowing smile. “Why weren’t there any grid girls toda…