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F1’s first lady racer, Maria Teresa de Filippis, dies

Maria Teresa de Filippis, the first woman to compete in a Formula 1 Grand Prix back in 1958, has died at the age of eighty-nine. The Italian saw the chequered flag in only one of the three races she started, finishing tenth in the 1958 Belgian Grand Prix at Spa-Francorchamps driving a Maserati 250F, before retiring from both the Portuguese and Italian Grand Prix later in the year. She had earlier in the season failed to qualify for the Monaco Grand Prix, something she repeated at the same track the following year in 1959, before hanging up her racing helmet following the death of her Porsche team owner Jean Behra later that year in a sports car race at the German AVUS circuit. She stayed...
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