In over 70 years of competition, only two women—Maria Teresa de Filippis and Lella Lombardi—have ever started a Grand Prix. Others, like Divina Galica, Desiré Wilson, and Giovanna Amati ...

The last woman to compete in an F1 grand prix was Lella Lombardi in 1976 but there are growing hopes that a female driver can make it to the top in this male-dominated sport. F1 Academy ...

Lella Lombardi remains the last woman to have started an F1 race, in 1976, and one of only two female racers in the sport's 75-year history to have qualified for one. In 2014, Susie Wolff drove in ...

The four-time IMSA race winner will become the first internationally born woman to race in Cup since Christine Beckers and Lella Lombardi in the 1977 July Daytona race. Coverage of the Shriners ...

With her Cup debut Sunday at Phoenix Raceway, Katherine Legge would become the 17th woman to race in NASCAR’s premier series (see list below). The eighth female driver in Cup during NASCAR’s modern ...

Rear-engined cars had already been adopted around the world when the Chevrolet Corvair first appeared in the United States, but the new technology left Americans concerned about the implications ...

In 1975, Lella Lombardi became the only woman to score in F1 by taking home a half-point at the Spanish Grand Prix. Though women had competed in NASCAR since its very inception, Janet Guthrie was ...

Motorsports have long been dominated by male drivers. Maria Teresa de Filippis and Lella Lombardi are the only two women to have started in an F1 race. De Filippis raced in three from 1958 to 1959 ...