Motorsport
Jun. 29, 1976 - Divina succeeds in putting her name in the record books.: 29-year-old Divina Galica, of Chelsea, London, and Malmesbury, Wiltshire, today made a successful bid for a place in the car speed record books at R.A.P. Fairford Gloucestershire - the Concorde Flight Test Base - with attempts on the British 2000-3000 cc class records in her ShellSport -Rolatruc Surtees TS16 with formula 1 Ford DFV 3-litro engine. She set up a new 500-metre and kilometre record, and the fastest flying mile record and also the fastest fling quarter-mile. Divina is now the fastest British lady driver over 1 kilometre. But her attempt on Sit Malcom Campbell's record for the flying mile for any car, which starts at 170.61 m.p.h. set in 1926, proved too much - but managed to equal his record. Photo shows Top British woman racing driver, Divina Galica, gives that sweet smile of success Formula 1 car, after setting up five new speed records at RAF Fairford today
