Maserati Archives - World of Speed

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

Maybe McLaren and Ferrari really need to work completely on the edge before the results show up. Ron Dennis and Luca di Montezemolo are in all probability thinking in this direction, and they are ruling accordingly. Both no longer have anything to prove, but they can lose quite a bit; yet they feel called to establish proper order. What if there are problems. Who will say goodbye? Can Eric Boullier and Marco Mattiacci feel safe at all? The latter in particular is on much thinner ice, given that his racing connections are not much different from Luigi Chinetti, who was also Ferrari's first husband in America decades ago. There was a feeling of less panic around his appointment. As if it had all happened before. Let's go back half a century

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The first woman to drive a Formula One died

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