Maria Teresa De Filippis

Maria Teresa De Filippis. The 1950s was the first decade of the Formula 1 championship, a time when Juan Manuel Fangio had already cemented himself in the history books as a 5x World Champion. Countess Maria Teresa de Filippis was born in 1926 in Naples, Italy


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Her first race was the Salerno-Cava dei Tirreni in 1948, a local 10 km hillclimb, in a Fiat 500 Maria Teresa de Filippis, who in the late 1950s became the first woman to compete in Formula 1 world championship grands prix, widely regarded as the pinnacle of automobile racing, died on Jan

Maria Teresa de Filippis, the first woman to start a Formula 1 world championship grand prix, died last week Maria Teresa de Filippis (born 11 November 1926) is a former Italian racing driver noted as being the first woman to race in Formula One Maria Teresa de Filippis, the first woman to start a Formula 1 world championship grand prix, died last week

. The Italian made three Grand Prix starts for the Maserati team in 1958, with a best result of 10th at Spa-Francorchamps in Belgium. Maria Teresa de Filippis (11 November 1926 - 8 January 2016) was an Italian racing driver, and the first woman to race in Formula One

. Our story of forgotten women begins in the 1950s with Maria Teresa de Filippis She participated in five World Championship Grands Prix, debuting on 18 May 1958, but scored no championship points