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Maria Teresa de Filippis, first female F1 racer, dies at 89

Maria Teresa de Filippis, the first woman to compete in a world championship Formula One Grand Prix, has passed away at the age of 89.

The Italian made three Grand Prix starts for the Maserati team in 1958, with a best result of 10th at Spa-Francorchamps in Belgium.

She also failed to qualify for the 1958 and 1959 Monaco Grands Prix, her second attempt being in a Behra-Porsche, and she walked away from the sport after the death of team boss Jean Behra later that year.

Naples-born De Filippis began racing after her brothers bet that she wouldn’t be fast enough, the result being that she won her first event in a Fiat 500. She went on to enjoy success in sports cars, before getting her F1 chance with Maserati.

De Filippis returned to a motorsport role in 1979 when she joined the Club Internationale des Anciens Pilotes de Grand Prix F1 for retired drivers, eventually going on to become its honorary president. She was also a founding member of the Maserati Club.

Only one other woman has recorded an F1 race start. The late Lella Lombardi, also Italian, started 12 Grands Prix between 1974 and ’76.

(source: f1.com)

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Tyler Alexander, 1940 - 2016

Tyler Alexander, one of the founding members of McLaren, has died at the age of 75. Alexander joined driver Bruce McLaren in the early 1960s to help set up the team that would go on to become one of the most successful in F1 racing.

Paying tribute to the American, McLaren Chairman and CEO Ron Dennis said: “Tyler Alexander was one of the first pillars of our company - working hard alongside Bruce from the very earliest days - and Bruce couldn’t have asked for a sturdier pair of shoulders upon which to help build the team’s reputation.”

After helping establish the team in 1963, Alexander worked with McLaren for two decades before leaving in 1983, two years after Dennis’s arrival at the helm. However, he returned in 1989 and remained with the squad until his retirement in 2008.

"Tyler Alexander was a true motor racing man, passionate, knowledgeable and the kindest of people," commented Formula One group CEO Bernie Ecclestone. "He worked with some of the greatest drivers, spanning nearly 50 years.

"He was a friend and had been through his days in motorsport. Tyler was a special person to me. He understood people and the sport. I am going to miss him."

Alexander started out McLaren's chief mechanic, working alongside Bruce McLaren and fellow American Teddy Mayer, before becoming chief engineer and then a director. As well as F1 racing, he led the company to success in the United States in the CanAm sportscars and Indycar series.

“Tyler's skilful yet practical expertise, coupled with his energetic and optimistic attitude, topped off by his infectiously dry and satirical sense of humour, made him both highly successful and hugely popular,” continued Dennis, “whether he was overseeing car-builds in the team's workshop, running race-winning CanAm and Indy 500 crews, or working with some of the world’s greatest drivers and engineers in Formula One."

In his period away from McLaren in the 1980s, Alexander returned to the US to join Mayer in running an Indycar team, before the pair briefly became joint team principals of the short-lived Beatrice F1 squad, which contested the 1985 and ’86 seasons.

After another brief stint in Indycar, he was re-signed by Dennis to McLaren in 1989 as a special projects engineer, and over his final 20 years with the team they won six drivers' and five constructors' titles, with the likes of Ayrton Senna and Mika Hakkinen.

“Quite simply, Tyler lived and breathed McLaren," added Dennis. "And, following his retirement in late 2008, during which season he attended every Grand Prix and played an important part in securing the team's and Lewis Hamilton's world championship success, he remained a much loved and greatly valued chum to many of us, regularly visiting our Woking factory to catch up with pals old and new. Tyler's was a friendship that you could really rely upon; he was a man who would never let you down.

“In fact, Tyler was one of the finest of the old school: hardy, humble and wise, leaving a reputation and a legacy that will remain indelible in the history of international motorsport.”

(source: f1.com)

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The 2016 drivers at the moment

Mercedes will continue with their "dream team". Let's see if this is the last season with the both of them.

So here's a list of the 2016 drivers and their teams that have already been confirmed:

Mercedes

Lewis Hamilton

Nico Rosberg

Ferrari

Sebastian Vettel

Kimi Räikkönen

Williams

Valtteri Bottas

Felipe Massa

Red Bull

Daniil Kvyat

Daniel Ricciardo

Force India

Sergio Perez

Nico Hülkenberg

Toro Rosso

Max Verstappen

Carlos Sainz Jr.

McLaren

Jenson Button

Fernando Alonso

Lotus

Pastor Maldonado

Jolyon Palmer

Sauber

Felipe Nasr

Marcus Ericsson

Haas

Romain Grosjean

Esteban Gutierrez

Manor

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