Lella Lombardi is the only woman to finish in the F1 points. But that’s not all…
A sixth-place finish in the 1975 Spanish GP made Lella Lombardi F1’s only points scorer. Beyond that, her passion brought impressive racing achievements elsewhere too
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Taken from Motor Sport, April 2015
Formula 1 was at its most macho: James Hunt was having sex for breakfast; the ‘Monza Gorilla’ was muscling a works March; and, on a hill overlooking Barcelona, officials, team bosses and drivers were at each others’ throats.
Though officials erected barricades and bosses manned the barriers because the drivers were rightly unamused by Montjuïch’s laughable Acme Inc Armco, the latter would eventually kowtow and race with a collective madness – bar world champion Emerson Fittipaldi, who stayed true to his word and refused to start.