The first woman to drive a Formula One died
Back in 1958, Maria Teresa de Filippis entered the history of motorsport as the first woman to take part in a Formula One race. In 1958 and 1959, behind the wheel of a Maserati 250F, the Italian tried five times to qualify for the Grand Prix race. She failed to do so in Monaco in 1958, and luck smiled on her the same year in Belgium. The race in Spa is also the only one she has finished. She finished in tenth place, which sounds good by today's standards, but at that time only ten racers finished the race, so Maria was last in the race, two laps behind the winner Tony Brooks. At the time, the 32-year-old racer also qualified for the Portuguese Grand Prix and the domestic race in Italy in the qualifiers that year, but was stopped by an engine failure in both races. Last time j