2017 FIA ACTIVITY REPORT 1 TABLE OF CONTENTS 2 4 MESSAGE FROM FIA AT A THE PRESIDENT GLANCE 6 12 13 14 GENERAL 2017 GOVERNANCE ADMINISTRATION ORGANISATION HIGHLIGHTS 24 68 96 110 PERFORMANCE PARTNERSHIPS SPORT MOBILITY & COMPLIANCE FOR PROGRESS 2 2017 FIA ACTIVITY REPORT MESSAGE OF THE FIA PRESIDENT JEAN TODT 2017 was a milestone year for the FIA. On each of our main objectives – Motor Sport Development, Sustainable Mobility and Road Safety, Strengthening of our Clubs – we have made progress. Motor Sport Development The FIA is also constantly working towards strengthening track safety conditions, which remains one of our main priorities. We Motor sport will always need an arbitrator, a body to define rules have taken a major step forward this year with the decision to and ethics that raise the values of the sport to the highest level, that introduce from 2018 an additional frontal protection system provide a show that thrills, and that ensure motor sport continues called the Halo, which the World Motor Sport Council mandated to be a laboratory for the automobiles of the future. That is the for Formula 1, Formula 2 as well as for Season 5 of Formula E primary ‘raison d’être’ of the FIA, and much has been done this beginning at the end of 2018. In time, the device will be fitted to year in that domain. all single-seaters competing in FIA Championships. This decision With a new promoter – Chase Carey and the Liberty Media team comes as a result of rigorous research conducted over a number succeeding Bernie Ecclestone in February 2017 – Formula One of years. It corresponds with a commitment undertaken in 2016 experienced a spectacular season and many positive by the F1 Strategy Group and was carried out at the request of developments. The duel between two great champions, all drivers. Driver safety must come first: they are the ones risking Lewis Hamilton and Sebastian Vettel on the Drivers’ side, and their lives in races. Mercedes and Ferrari on the Manufacturers’ side, not forgetting Red Bull Racing, kept us on the edge of our seats. The F1 cars Alongside Formula 1, which is and will remain the flagship increased their level of performance, as planned. The various discipline of motor sport, Formula E continues to grow. In addition innovations in terms of the show and a willingness to open the to the 2016–2017 season Driver’s title being awarded to television rights to free channels will widen the audience and Brazil’s Lucas di Grassi and the Manufacturer’s title being won by increase the number of fans – all of which is good news. We French team Renault e.dams, the tremendous level of excitement have to continue on this path, particularly by developing the surrounding this new discipline is tangible for everyone. The sporting and technical regulations to reduce costs and increase enormous crowds seen at the series street circuits, the mayoral competition among the teams. We have begun this work with support of these attractive races in the heart of cities such as Hong the F1 Promoter, the F1 teams and engine manufacturers and Kong, Paris and New York, the commitment of major manufacturers we will continue these efforts in order to reach the best possible such as Mercedes and Porsche to joining those already involved, agreement for 2021. such as Renault, Citroën, Audi and Jaguar, and the exemplary 2017 FIA ACTIVITY REPORT 3 models they represent for the electrical cars of tomorrow are all Strengthening of our Clubs signs of the growing success of Formula E. In Paris in December, the annual FIA General Assembly once The FIA World Rally Championship, which saw Sébastien Ogier again showed its confidence in me by electing me for a third and and Julien Ingrassia seal a fifth title, this time with M-Sport, and the final four-year mandate. From the bottom of my heart, I would like FIA World Rallycross Championship, with the crowning of Johan to once again thank all the Club delegates. I have committed to Kristoffersson, also experienced exciting and closely followed continuing the work commenced in 2009 to strictly implement the seasons. undertakings upon which my election was based. The FIA World Endurance Championship was able to renew its Alongside me, I can count on the help of a superb and highly calendar and its rules to address the announced withdrawal of experienced team, with Brian Gibbons as President of the Porsche. Similarly, the transformation of the FIA World Touring Senate, Graham Stoker as Deputy President for Sport and Car Championship into an FIA World Touring Car Cup in 2018 Thierry Willemarck as Deputy President for Automobile Mobility should enable the revitalisation of this discipline. and Tourism. Sustainable Mobility and Road Safety To ensure a dynamic presence in the four corners of the world, our 246 Clubs will be supported by Regional Vice-Presidents. For Advocating for safer, more innovative and sustainable mobility Sport, Mohammed Ben Sulayem was elected Vice-President for forms the second pillar of the FIA’s activities, and all our efforts also the Middle East; Surinder Thatthi for Africa; José Abed for North focused on this quest in 2017. America; Carlos García Remohí for South America; Wan Heping for Asia-Pacific; Angelo Sticchi Damiani and Hermann Tomczyk To deal with the road safety scourge – 1.25 million deaths each for Europe. For Mobility, Thomas Møller Thomsen was elected year on the roads worldwide – I wanted to again strengthen our Region I President (Europe, Middle East, Africa), Mike Noon, actions by undertaking two new initiatives. The first was to intensify Region II President (Asia-Pacific); Tim Shearman, Region III the work of the FIA High Level Panel for Road Safety, a high-level President (North America); Jorge Tomasi Crisci, Region IV President advisory group on road safety that brings together leaders in the (South America); Simon Modisaemang, ACTA President (Region I fields of economics, International Institutions, Non-Governmental Sub Region African Council for Touring and the Automobile); and Organisations and the FIA Network with the aim of encouraging Essa Hamzah Alfailakawi, ACTAC President (Region I Sub Region innovation and implementing concrete measures. This year, the Arab Council of Touring & Automobile Clubs). Panel developed a work programme that included supporting a project to establish a UN Global Fund for Road Safety and the Our General Assembly also elected to the other bodies within search for funding; strengthening cooperation and coordination our Federation – World Motor Sport Council, World Council through the creation of Regional Road Safety Observatories; for Automobile Mobility and Tourism, Senate, Commissions, organising in-country missions as well as a global initiative aimed International Tribunal, International Court of Appeal, Ethics at encouraging the voluntary adoption of minimum vehicle safety Committee – outstanding and diverse individuals who will enrich standards by major car manufacturers. our knowledge and our influence, such as former President of Mexico Felipe Calderón, at the head of the new FIA Environment The second initiative, launched on 10 March 2017 in Paris, and Sustainability Commission, and former French Prime Minister is an international road safety advocacy campaign entitled François Fillon, as President of the FIA Manufacturers’ Commission. #3500LIVES in reference to the 3,500 lives lost every day on Additionally, among many others, former Director-General of the roads. UNESCO, Irina Bokova, and diplomat Maria Angela Zappia will sit on the Senate, and former FIA Formula 1 driver Felipe Massa Developed in partnership with the number one outdoor advertising will head up the International Karting Commission. company, JCDecaux, in order to ensure maximum visibility, it is driven by the endorsement of a simple set of road safety Over the next four years, the new FIA Innovation Fund (FIF) that I behaviours by major athletes and celebrities, such as Antoine wanted to establish will form the main platform for strengthening Griezmann, Fernando Alonso, Pharrell Williams, Rafael Nadal, the whole FIA Family. With an allocation of around €50 million Michelle Yeoh and Anne Hidalgo. Each promotes one of the FIA’s from the proceeds of sale of our 1% equity in the capital of Golden Rules for Road Safety, i.e. the fundamental principles of the Formula One promoter, this fund will serve to encourage road safety: obeying the speed limit, wearing a seat belt, not innovation in a broad range of areas. It will enable exceptional texting while driving, stop when tired, etc. The latest rule promoted projects to be financed both in sport and mobility domains, with by this campaign encourages regular eyesight checks. specific long-term aims to have a lasting impact. At the end of 2017, this campaign had been rolled out in more More than ever, the FIA, with its 246 Clubs present in than 30 different languages, in over 900 cities of more than 145 countries, over five continents, representing over 80 million 75 countries across the world, making it the biggest campaign on road users throughout the world, is able to exert a positive this issue ever undertaken. influence on decisive choices for the future. Among other major themes, access to sustainable mobility for all was at the forefront of our annual Mobility Conference, which met from 25 to 29 September in Tokyo under the auspices of our host Club, the Japan Automobile Federation, with the announcement of the creation of two new commissions dedicated to the environment and to disabilities. The FIA Smart Cities initiative, rolled out in Mexico, Paris, Berlin and Yours faithfully, Montreal this year, was a reminder that Sport and Mobility revolve Jean TODT around common goals: innovation and sustainable development. FIA President It is a fact that people will always need cars, but they will use them differently, with more respect for the environment: tomorrow’s automobiles will need to be cleaner and safer.