They prefer easy meat (targets). 😹

Its just another case of a small but loud minority dictating the behaviour of a majority. One day women will realize how this feminists 2.0 are actually bad for the majority of women.
I just wonder how many time it will take for them to tacle on porn industry...

Chase Carey himself, the boss of Formula 1, has said in an interview that he wanted to keep grid girls and that these girls did their job "with pride" but that there are "important clienteles" who were against them. Translation: Feminists pressured Formula 1 into banning grid girls and the management felt threatened that Formula 1 would be subject to negative press by feminists. So no, it's not about capitalism and "broadening their market" at all. It's about people (feminists) threatening to attack what had already been built: "You either do as we say, or we'll cry Wolf!" They are not trying to widen their market, they are trying to avoid it shrinking due to attacks from outside. You can already see that your explanation is wrong by the massive backlash of the fanbase, both male and female. I've been a hardcore F1 fan for more than 20 years now and on the F1 websites I visit this has caused more backlash than the Halo when that was revealed. 

Here's how it really is: The ban of grid girls could potentially shrink the market and fans don't like it. But the management was more scared of a coordinated feminist propaganda move because that would have been even more harmful in their eyes. This is a lose-lose situation for the sport and anyone who is even slightly interested in F1 knows this because there has never been any serious backlash against grid girls in the last 20 years other than the feminist one. A lot of grid girls were extremely happy with their job, proud to represent their country and excited to be near the stars of their favourite sport. There is nothing wrong with pretty women being pretty. And there is nothing good about pressuring a sport into banning a female job just because it goes against your political agenda. Keep the politics away from sports!, is my opinion.

The grid kids that F1 will be using are actual junior competitors in the sport, and will chosen by the national sporting authorities for each race, so I understand.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/formula1/42950040

On the subject of the grid girls themselves, I sympathise to an extent - it's one less choice that's open to them, and those are high profile jobs that they're losing. However, it's clear from the video in the OP that they do these jobs as an aside to their main careers.

I'd find it hard to choose giving the grid girls their 'choice' back, if it meant denying competitors in the junior racing series the opportunity to be involved in an F1 race in some way.

Semi related - my dad just got his issue of the Sports Illustrated swimsuit issue. Quite frankly I'm surprised this is still allowed given the current sociopolitical climate (at least in America and parts of the West)..

No one is saying objectification is the devils work and needs to be wiped from society, but many people feel that sexually motivated positions and roles should not placed in sport which ultimately have nothing to do with sex and a wide demographic audience including families. Just because someone thinks naked woman shouldn't be on page 3 of the UK's biggest newspaper, it doesn't mean they think porn should be illegal.

The fact that we're even comparing a strip club to an F1 event should make the point very clear.

Where? At comic conventions? I don't I think that makes a lot of sense... If the organisers think something is in appropriate than they should ban it. If fans think the organisers are wrong, they should pressure them to reverse said decision.

Because female representation should amount to more than eye candy and the same culture which doesn't care to address this encourages the piss poor treatement of woman who deal with daily street harrasment, inappropriate comments at the workplace, sexual harrasment in all stages of life from men who feel entitled, and complete abuses of power as seen in the Harvey Weinstein exposè. Its almost as if people are ignoring the fact we are a product of our environment and shaping our environment influences how the future generation grow and treat each other. If the market demands a return of the Grid girls I'm sure we'll see them in some form or another, I don't think they do...

And thats just one angle, they could want to make it more family friendly but I'll repeat my closing line again "it's about the culture you want the sport to represent and encourage that is far bigger and generational then the jobs they loose, but also less a tangible subject."

And its not even that I think that this is a must or believe it will definitely make a difference, but lets not over simply the thinking to crazy feminists ruining things. 

Actually it doesn't make it any clearer to me.

If these women are doing this against their will, or are not getting paid. Or if the argument is that they should be paid more... I will understand all that. Hell, if the argument is that their should be more women drivers i could get that too.

What i see here is a bunch of women taking the livelihood of other women simply because they feel they have the moral high ground. The only difference this is going to make in the world right now is that thousands of women or even the agencies that represent them are now out of a job.

Yay?

How about this, show us one single video or one article of these models saying they hate working there and how they feel objectified. Not a sex scandal... those happen everywhere. I am talking about an actual petition by one of these women that warrants this kinda initiative. Just one.

this doesn't make sense, how can you be against the objectification of women and not be against the production of porn? and even beyond that to a lesser degree modelling?