Formula One CEO Stefano Domenicali said Wednesday it is “very unlikely” there will be a woman driver in the top level of the sport within the next five years.
However, Domenicali stated that it’s “crucial in this moment to try to give the maximum possibility to women to come to Formula One. And this is something that we are totally dedicated [to].”
There has not been a woman competing in an F1 World Championship grand prix since Lella Lombardi in the 1976 Austrian Grand Prix where she placed 12th. Lombardi is the only woman driver to score points in a F1 Grand Prix, registering half a point during the 1975 Spanish Grand Prix. Over the last few decades, the only other woman driver who participated in a Grand Prix weekend was Susie Wolff, who was as a Williams test driver during the 2014 and ’15 seasons.
