What were you doing on the 27th of April, 1975? If you're old enough and if you had a television - which wasn't a given at the time - then you may remember it as the day of the Spanish Grand Prix, an event that made the news not just for the usual reasons but because it was the occasion of a horrific crash, when Rolf Stommelen's car went over the barriers, killing four spectators. Something else happened in that race which, in light of that crash, didn't get the attention it otherwise might have done, but remains an important piece of sporting history: Lella Lombardi became the first (and so far only) woman to win a point in Formula One.
Picking up the story 45 years later, Riyaana Hartley and Vincent Tran's documentary asks who Lella was and how she got into that position, what became of her and.
Picking up the story 45 years later, Riyaana Hartley and Vincent Tran's documentary asks who Lella was and how she got into that position, what became of her and.
- 6/29/2020
- by Jennie Kermode
- eyeforfilm.co.uk
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