Motorsport
Jun. 06, 1976 - Divina succeeds in plttezc her name in the record books: top British woman racing driver, Davina Galina, set up five new speed records at Raf, Fair-ford, Gloucestershire, today, but failed in her attempt to beat a 50-year-old record held by sir Malcolm Campbell. Divina, 29, driving the formula 1 surtees racing car. set up new records in the three-liter class for the flying, quarter-mile, flying 500-metre, flying kilometer, flying mile, and the fastest British woman driver over one kilometer. But she could only equal the 170.61 m.f.h. unofficial British outright flying mile set in 1926, by sir Malcolm Campbell, The new records were set up on the Concorde flight test base. photo show Divina Calica, Britain's top woman racing driver, in her suttee formula 1 car, streaks done the runway at Raf Fair-ford today on her way to setting up five new ended records. In the background is one of Britain's supersonic concord aircraft, which use fair ford as a flight test base
