Divina Galica

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Divina Galica
Nationality	British
World Championship Career
Active years	1976, 1978
Team(s)	non-works Surtees, Hesketh
Races	3 (0 starts)
Championships	0
Wins	0
Podium finishes	0
Pole positions	0
Fastest laps	0
First race	1976 British Grand Prix
Last race	1978 Brazilian Grand Prix

Divina Galica (born in Bushey Heath, near Watford, Hertfordshire, 13 August 1944) is an English member of the Order of the British Empire, best known for her Olympics career and her motorsport racing career.

By age 20, she participated in her first Olympic games at Innsbruck 1964, competing in downhill skiing and the slalom. She also participated in the next two winter Olympics, at Grenoble 1968 and Sapporo 1972. Galica, a two-time captain of the British Women’s Olympic Ski Team, also briefly held the downhill skiing speed record (at 125 mph).

Accepting an invitation to a celebrity auto race, Galica surprised everyone with her driving talent. She eventually took up motorsport as a second career, racing karts, sports cars, trucks, and even Formula One cars briefly for the Hesketh team. Her racing career has included stints in Formula Renault, Formula Vauxhall Lotus, and Formula 2.

Galica is now a senior vice president with Skip Barber Racing, managing both its driving school and racing series.

In 2005, at the Mont-Tremblant weekend of the Skip Barber Race Series, Galica announced she was leaving Skip Barber to work for iRacing as a director in the company.

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Year	Entrant	Chassis	Engine	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	WDC	Points
1976	Shellsport / Whiting	Surtees TS16	Cosworth V8	BRA	RSA	USW	ESP	BEL	MON	SWE	FRA	GBR DNQ	GER	AUT	NED	ITA	CAN	USA	JPN	-	0
1978	Olympus Cameras with Hesketh	Hesketh 308E	Cosworth V8	ARG DNQ	BRA DNQ	RSA	USW	MON	BEL	ESP	SWE	FRA	GBR	GER	AUT	NED	ITA	USA	CAN	-	0