it is not april Ecclestone calls for separate F1 series for women

[Mark]

http://youtu.be/46ehrFk-gLk

You're right that 'he' is the default gender. However there has been a move to singular 'they' in recent years. Some say it's not grammatical but it's here to stay and IMO a necessary feature of English in the modern world where all the information you may have on someone is a gender ambiguous user name.