by Her Racing Journey Staff | Feb 1, 2026 | Legends
In the gritty, high-octane world of 1950s motorsport, there were two types of people: those who drove the cars and those who wrote about them. The drivers were gladiators; the writers were spectators. The two tribes rarely mixed, separated by the armco barriers and...
by Her Racing Journey Staff | Feb 1, 2026 | Legends
Open the record books of the Formula 1 World Championship, and you will find a stark, empty column. No woman has ever won a Grand Prix. But history is often more nuanced than a spreadsheet, and if you travel to the rolling hills of Kent in England, you will find a...
by Her Racing Journey Staff | Feb 1, 2026 | Legends
The Countess Who Bet Against the Boys: The Story of Maria Teresa de Filippis In the monochromatic newsreels of 1950s motor racing, the cast is almost exclusively male. It is a world of oil-stained goggles, leather helmets, and a nonchalant acceptance of death. But if...
by Her Racing Journey Staff | Feb 1, 2026 | Legends
If you want to understand the sheer, unadulterated madness of 1980s rallying, you don’t look at the statistics. You look at the footage. You watch a primitive, boxy beast of a car sliding sideways mere inches from a wall of spectators, spitting fire and gravel...
by Her Racing Journey Staff | Feb 1, 2026 | Legends
The Butcher’s Daughter Who Tamed the Bullring: Remembering Lella Lombardi Formula 1 in the mid-1970s was a theater of the absurd and the dangerous. It was an era of sideburns, unbridled horsepower, and a cavalier attitude toward mortality. Into this...
