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Daily Mirror
Daily Mirror
Sport
Daniel Moxon

F1 announces plan to grow female talent pool in motorsport with new F1 Academy initiative

A new initiative has been launched to get more girls into motorsport at a young age in the bid to discover the next female Formula 1 driver.

A handful of females have raced in the sport since the world championship was formed. But just two have ever even qualified for a race and only one has finished in the points.

That was Lella Lombardi, who scored half a point at the truncated 1975 Spanish Grand Prix. She qualified for 12 F1 races in total from 17 entries, the last coming in Austria in 1976.

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