50年前最后一位女性车手参加F1大奖赛
今天距离女性车手最后一次参加F1大奖赛已过去50年。1976年奥地利大奖赛上，莱拉·隆巴迪完成了她的最后一场F1比赛。
今天，距离上一次有女性车手出现在大奖赛发车格上已过去五十年，等待F1下一位女性车手的漫长历程又迎来了一个里程碑。
50年前的今天举行的1976年奥地利大奖赛，标志着女性车手第15次也是最后一次出现在发车格上。这位车手就是莱拉·隆巴迪，她占据了这些发车中的绝大多数（仅三次除外）。
隆巴迪代表RAM车队驾驶，她驾驶着已有一年车龄的布拉汉姆BT44B赛车，在25辆赛车的发车格上排在第24位。她此前在纽博格林北环赛道的上一站比赛中未能获得参赛资格，但两周后参赛车辆减少了三辆，尤其是法拉利的尼基·劳达，他在一场大火事故中受了近乎致命的伤。
隆巴迪最终以第12名完赛，尽管落后冠军约翰·沃森四圈。她领先队友洛里斯·凯塞尔六圈，不过凯塞尔因燃油接头故障在维修站停留了很长时间。
这标志着隆巴迪F1生涯的不幸终结，而那个赛季开始时原本充满希望。一年前，她成为第一位（也是至今唯一一位）在大奖赛中得分的女性。著名的是，她在蒙锥克公园缩短的西班牙大奖赛中获得第六名，赢得半分。
同年晚些时候，她在令人生畏的纽博格林举行的德国大奖赛中获得第七名，但这一成绩鲜为人知。隆巴迪在沃特金斯格伦的最后一站转投弗兰克·威廉姆斯车队，但她的FW03赛车在暖胎圈离合器故障。
1976年她代表马奇车队参赛，但仅一场比赛后车队就替换了她，因为她的赞助未能到位，而罗尼·彼得森从莲花车队转投而来。隆巴迪在RAM车队重新出现，但奥地利站是她唯一一次成功获得参赛资格。
遗憾的是，此后很少有女性有机会加入隆巴迪和玛丽亚·特蕾莎·德·菲利皮斯的行列，成为F1仅有的女性车手。德西蕾·威尔逊在布兰兹哈奇赢得了一场非锦标赛F1比赛，但在有机会参加顶级赛事时，她驾驶的赛车竞争力远远不足。迪维娜·加利卡在七十年代也未能让自己的赛车进入发车格。
最后一位尝试获得大奖赛参赛资格的女性是1992年的乔瓦娜·阿马蒂，同样驾驶布拉汉姆赛车，不过是为当时陷入困境的厂队效力。鉴于她缺乏经验以及车队糟糕的财务状况，她四次尝试均未能获得参赛资格并不令人意外。
此后唯一一位参加过大奖赛周末的女性是苏茜·沃尔夫，十多年前她曾为威廉姆斯车队四次参加练习赛。但如果F1能够再次让一位女性进入发车格，很可能要归功于沃尔夫，因为她现在领导着F1学院，这是一个全女性赛车类别，作为F1的支援系列赛运行，让女性车手驾驶由大奖赛车队支持的赛车。随着F1现在认真努力推广女性车手，希望她们中的更多人能进入F3、F2并最终进入顶级赛事只是时间问题。
但这需要时间，正如F1首席执行官斯特凡诺·多梅尼卡利所承认的那样。“现实地说，除非有某种像流星撞地球一样的事情发生，否则我看不到未来五年内有女孩进入F1，”他说。“这非常不可能。”
英文原文
The long wait for Formula 1’s next female racer reaches another milestone today as five decades have passed since the last time a grand prix grid featured a woman.
The 1976 Austrian Grand Prix, held 50 years ago today, marked the 15th and final time a woman appeared on the grid. The racer in question was Lella Lombardi, who accounts for all bar three of those starts.
Driving for RAM Racing, Lombardi qualified her year-old Brabham BT44B 24th on the 25-car grid. She had failed to make the cut for the previous round at the Nurburgring Nordschleife, but two weeks later three fewer entrants appeared, notably that of Ferrari’s Niki Lauda who had suffered near-fatal injuries in a fiery crash.
Lombardi reached the chequered flag in 12th, albeit four laps behind winner John Watson. She was six laps ahead of team mate Loris Kessel, though he spent a lengthy time in the pits while a fault with a fuel union was fixed.
This marked an unfortunate end to Lombardi’s F1 career after a season which had begun promisingly. A year earlier she became the first (and still only) woman to score points in a grand prix. Famously, she took half a point for finishing sixth in the shortened Spanish Grand Prix at Montjuich Park.
Her seventh-placed finish later the same year in the German Grand Prix on the daunting Nurburgring is less well-remembered. Lombardi switched to Frank Williams’ team for the final race at Watkins Glen but her FW03’s clutch failed on the formation lap.
She started 1976 at March but the team replaced her after just one race as her sponsorship failed to materialise and Ronnie Peterson switched teams from Lotus. Lombardi reappeared at RAM, but the Austrian race would be the only time she managed to qualify.
Lamentably few women have since had the opportunity to join Lombardi and Maria Teresa de Filippis as F1’s only female racers. Desire Wilson won a non-championship F1 race at Brands Hatch but laboured with much less competitive equipment when given the chance to compete at the top flight. Nor did Divina Galica manage to get her car onto the grid in the seventies.
The last woman to attempt to qualify for a grand prix was Giovanna Amati in 1992, also in a Brabham, albeit for the now-beleaguered works team. Given her lack of experience and the team’s dire financial situation, her failure to qualify in four attempts came as no surprise.
The only other woman to participate in a grand prix weekend since then was Susie Wolff who made four practice appearances for Williams over a decade ago. But if F1 ever manages to get another woman onto the grid it will likely have Wolff to thank, as she now heads up F1 Academy, the all-female racing category which runs as a support series to F1 and puts female racers in cars backed by grand prix teams. With F1 now making a serious effort to promote female racers, it is hopefully only a matter of time until more of them reach Formula 3, Formula 2 and eventually the top flight.
But it will take time, as F1 CEO Stefano Domenicali has acknowledged. “Realistically speaking, I don’t see, unless something that will be like a sort of meteor coming into the earth, a girl in F1 in the next five years,” he said. “That is very unlikely.”
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