{"id":495646,"date":"2016-07-01T02:09:07","date_gmt":"2016-07-01T02:09:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportscardigest.com\/\/?p=32014"},"modified":"2024-12-27T03:09:08","modified_gmt":"2024-12-27T03:09:08","slug":"lella-lombardi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.supercars.net\/blog\/lella-lombardi\/","title":{"rendered":"Lella Lombardi"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='memberful-global-teaser-content'>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Women drivers in Formula One are rare indeed. Since the start of the F1 World Championship in 1950, only five of them have made it to the track in fire-breathing Grand Prix cars, and only one ever managed to finish in the top six and score in a World Championship Grand Prix.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">She was a pretty Italian butcher\u2019s daughter from Piedmont named Lella Lombardi. Even so, destiny wasn\u2019t all that kind to her, because she took her 6th place in the 1975 Spanish GP on the Montjuich Park street circuit but, instead of winning a full point for herself, she only got a half a one. Still, the fact remains that she is the only woman ever to have scored in an F1 world title race in 67 years.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<style>\n        .memberful-global-teaser-content p:last-child{\n            -webkit-mask-image: linear-gradient(180deg, #000 0%, transparent);\n            mask-image: linear-gradient(180deg, #000 0%, transparent);\n        }\n    <\/style>\n<div class='memberful-global-marketing-content'>\n<div class=\"a07online-global-marketing-content-wrapper\">\n<h2 class=\"a07online-global-marketing-title\">No Subscription? 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