Lella Lombardi

Lella Lombardi

Nation:	Italy
Automobile world championship
First start:	1975 South African Grand Prix
Last start:	Grand Prix of Austria 1976
Constructors
1974  Brabham  1975  March / Frank Williams Racing Cars  1976 March / RAM Racing
statistics
World Cup balance:	WM-21. ( 1975 )
Starts Victories Poles SR 12 - - -
World Cup points :	0.5
Podiums :	-
Leadership laps :	-

Maria Grazia "Lella" Lombardi (born March 26, 1941 in Frugarolo , † March 3, 1992 in Milan ) was an Italian racing driver .

Career

She made her Formula 1 debut in 1974 with the Allied Polymer Group team at the British Grand Prix at Brands Hatch , but without being able to qualify for the race. In 1975 she started for the first time in a Formula 1 race, the South African Grand Prix , for the March team . At the last race of the season, the US Grand Prix in Watkins Glen , she competed for Frank Williams Racing Cars , but could not start the race due to ignition problems in the warm-up . In 1976 she drove a race for March, which she finished from 22nd place in 14th place. She then switched to Team RAM and drove three races. She drove her last of twelve races in 1976 in Zeltweg at the Austrian Grand Prix and after finishing 24th in the qualification, she finished 12th.

Lella Lombardi is so far the only woman in a Formula 1 - Grand Prix drove into the points. In 1975 she received half a World Championship point for sixth place at the prematurely canceled Spanish Grand Prix at the Circuit de Montjuïc in Barcelona.

She is also the first woman to take part in a race in the German Touring Car Championship . With seventh and tenth place respectively at the tenth race weekend at the Hockenheimring 1984 , she finished in points, but was not entitled to points as a guest starter.

She was also active in sports car racing. In 1981 she won together with Giorgio Francia on a Osella PA9 the 6-hour race at Mugello .

Lella Lombardi died of cancer on March 3, 1992 in Milan.

statistics

Statistics in the automobile world championship

These statistics include all of the driver's participations in the World Automobile Championship, which is now known as the Formula 1 World Championship .

Single results

season	1	2	3	4th	5	6th	7th	8th	9	10	11	12	13	14th	15th	16
1974
										DNQ
1975
			DNF	6th	DNQ	DNF	DNF	14th	18th	DNF	7th	17th	DNF	DNS
1976
	14th								DNQ	DNQ	12

Legend
colour	abbreviation	meaning
gold	-	victory
silver	-	2nd place
bronze	-	3rd place
green	-	Placement in the points
blue	-	Classified outside the point ranks
violet	DNF	Race not finished (did not finish)
	NC	not classified
red	DNQ	did not qualify
	DNPQ	failed in pre-qualification (did not pre-qualify)
black	DSQ	disqualified
White	DNS	not at the start (did not start)
	WD	withdrawn
Light Blue	PO	only participated in the training (practiced only)
	TD	Friday test driver
without	DNP	did not participate in the training (did not practice)
	INJ	injured or sick
	EX	excluded
	DNA	did not arrive
	C.	Race canceled
		no participation in the World Cup
other	P / bold	Pole position
	SR / italic	Fastest race lap
	*	not at the finish, but counted due to the distance covered
	()	Streak results
	underlined	Leader in the overall standings

Le Mans results

year	team	vehicle	Teammate	placement	Failure reason
1975	Equipe Elf Switzerland	Alpine A441	Marie-Claude Charmasson	failure	Electrics
1976	Aseptogyl	Lancia Stratos	Christine Dacremont	Rank 20
1977	Inaltera	Inaltera LM77	Christine Beckers	Rank 11
1980	Scuderia Torino Corse	Osella PA8	Mark Thatcher	failure	accident

Web links

Commons : Lella Lombardi  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Tom Distler: Lella Lombardi - woman power in the premier class! In: www.motorsport-magazin.com, January 1, 2005, accessed October 3, 2009

literature

• Peter Grunert: The Formula 1 Lexicon. All cars - all drivers - all winners (= Econ 26353 ECON non-fiction book ). Econ, Düsseldorf 1997, ISBN 3-612-26353-6 , p. 279.