There’s no rule barring women from competing in Formula 1, but you can still only count on two hands how many times a woman has sat in the cockpit of a car boasting to be the fastest of any in motorsport.
First, there was Maria Teresa de Filippis, the first woman to race in F1 when she finished 10th place in the Belgian Grand Prix in 1958. Lella Lombardi was the first woman to score points in the racing series in 1975, and Giovanna Amati was the last woman entered in an F1 World Championship in 1992.
