Maria Teresa De Filippis. On May 18, 1958 Maria Teresa de Filippis drove onto the streets of Monte Carlo in a Maserati 250F, the car that Juan Manuel Fangio had used to win his fifth world championship the previous year She started racing cars at 22 years old on a bet: two of her brothers challenged her to prove that she could be a fast driver
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Women in the 1950s were popular in the pits, but not in the cockpit. The Italian driver took part in five F1 race weekends, securing three race starts in an era when motorsport was overwhelmingly male-dominated.
Maria Teresa de Filippis (11 November 1926 - 8 January 2016) was an Italian racing driver, and the first woman to race in Formula One Her first race was the Salerno-Cava dei Tirreni in 1948, a local 10 km hillclimb, in a Fiat 500 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.
. Maria Teresa de Filippis etched her name in F1 history as the first woman to compete in a Formula 1 race, making her F1 debut at the 1958 Monaco Grand Prix failing to qualify and making her Grand Prix race debut at the 1958 Belgian Grand Prix Countess Maria Teresa de Filippis was born in 1926 in Naples, Italy
. She started racing cars at 22 years old on a bet: two of her brothers challenged her to prove that she could be a fast driver Women in the 1950s were popular in the pits, but not in the cockpit.