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INMOTION The international magazine of the FIA March 2012 inmotion@ a.com inmotion@ © FIA 2012. All rights reserved. (t) +33 (0)1 43 12 58 (f) (0)1 43 15 (t) +33 12 58 (0)1 43 19 +33 8 Place de la Concorde | 75008 | Paris . France | 75008 8 Place de la Concorde STOPSTOP UP UP TOTO 33 METRESMETRES SHORTERSHORTER * WITHWITH MICHELIN MICHELIN ENERGY™ENERGY™ SAVERSAVER TYRES.TYRES.* INSIDE Dear Friends, → INFOCUS 02 We have devoted much of this issue to our The latest developments in mobility and motorsport as well as news campaign to educate drivers and reduce road from across the FIA’s worldwide network of clubs deaths and injuries. FIA Action For Road Safety is in support of the United Nations Decade of Action and is key to what our federation will be engaging in over the coming years, combining → INSIGHT 12 the energy and know-how of motor sport with 12 Freedom of the City After Paris set the standard with its much- the grass-roots knowledge and government copied Velib’ bicycle-share scheme, the city is now getting motorised, contacts of our vast global club network. with a revolutionary electric car initiative, Autolib’. The scheme’s boss, In addition to this special section, you will find Vincent Bolloré, explains how it works. features on how the car industry is tackling the issue of power usage, both on the streets of Paris 14 School for Champions With money for race seats getting – in our story about the city’s innovative Autolib’ tighter as the global ecoonomy shrinks, Formula Two CEO Jonathan initiative – as well as on the globe’s most famous Palmer argues that the FIA’s budget-conscious F1 feeder series makes racing tracks, where we look at the exciting new more sense than ever. World Endurance Championship. 16 Beating the Boffins With the start of the new F1 season just Staying on the motor sport theme, FIA Formula days away, Technical Director Charlie Whiting, details how the rules One Technical Director Charlie Whiting outlines have been modified to make the racing even more exciting. the rule modifications and clarifications that have been introduced for this season’s grand prix season, all of which will make the racing closer and more exciting than ever. → INDEPTH 20 Soon we will also be introducing the FIA Taking the FIA’s Golden Rules for Road University to all our member clubs. This is a 20 The Road to Safety Safety as a starting point, our 20-page Action for Road Safety special fascinating new project aimed at helping all our reveals that from distracted driving to the largely unrecognised scourge members to gain access to best practice across of drugged driving, and on to the fatal effects of fatigued driving, action the complete spectrum of mobility interests and is being taken by clubs, campaigners and stakeholders all over the world. eventually, it is hoped, motor sport. I hope you enjoy this issue of InMotion, our 40 Enduring Passion With its emphasis on innovation, the FIA’s magazine for all FIA members as well as the new World Endurance championship has grabbed the attention of the many colleagues and friends in both sport and world’s motor manufacturers – including Toyota. InMotion looks at why mobility who make up our thriving and vibrant we could be about to return to a golden age of sportscar racing. community. 50 The University Challenge The FIA University is a new Best wishes, initiative designed to help all member clubs to develop to their full potential by teaching best practice in all things mobility. InMotion goes back to school to find out more. → INPERSON 54 There are important reasons to choose The MICHELIN ENERGY™ Saver tyre stops up to 3 metres shorter 54 Mümtaz Tahincioğlu The President of the Turkish federation a MICHELIN ENERGY™ Saver tyre: TOSFED succeeded in bringing WRC and F1 to his country and for his * STOPPING TYRE FUEL in wet conditions . What’s more, it lasts 6,000 miles longer than latest coup he’s secured the 2102 FIA Annual General Assembly and DISTANCE LIFE EFFICIENCY There are important reasons to choose ** *** Gala Prize Giving for Istanbul. STOPS UP TO LASTS SAVES UP TO itsThe competitors MICHELIN ENERGY™and helps you Saver save tyre up stopsto 80 litresup to of 3 fuelmetres. shorter a MICHELIN 3 METRES ENERGY™ 6,000 Saver MILES tyre: 80 LITRES 57 Michel Meynet The FIA’s Head of Printing and Shipping SHORTER ON LONGER THAN OF FUEL*** * STOPPING WET ROADS* ITSTYRE COMPETITORS ** FUEL Seein howwet theconditions right tyre. What’s changes more, everything it lasts at 6,000 www.michelin.co.uk miles longer than explains how the federation is upping its game in both areas. DISTANCE LIFE EFFICIENCY ** *** STOPS UP TO LASTS SAVES UP TO its competitors and helps you save up to 80 litres of fuel . 58 Mathias Barbera and Malaika Coco The FIA’s new Head 3 METRES 6,000 MILES 80 LITRES of Content and Content Officer are helping to bring the FIA into the SHORTER ON LONGER THAN OF FUEL*** WET ROADS* ITS COMPETITORS** See how the right tyre changes everything at www.michelin.co.uk digital age with a comprehensive reconstruction of how the federation presents itself online. *Compared to the previous generation of the MICHELIN ENERGY™ Saver tyre. 2007 TÜV SÜD Automotive test on tyre size 175/65 R 14 T. **On average for the MICHELIN ENERGY™ Saver tyre compared to its main competitors. Tests conducted by TÜV SÜD in 2008 and DEKRA in 2009 and 2010 on sizes 175/65 R 14 T, 195/65 R 15 H and 205/55 R 16 V, with tyres available on the market at the time. ***Estimate of average saving with MICHELIN ENERGY™ Saver tyres compared to main competitors for petrol vehicles. TÜV SÜD Automotive 2009 rolling resistance tests on 15 key sizes for the European market (Michelin was first in 13 sizes and second in 2 sizes). Calculated over the average life span for Michelin tyres i.e. 28,000 miles (internal source).

*Compared to the previous generation of the MICHELIN ENERGY™ Saver tyre. 2007 TÜV SÜD Automotive test on tyre size 175/65 R 14 T. ALEX WILLIAMSON IMAGE: COVER **On average for the MICHELIN ENERGY™ Saver tyre compared to its main competitors. Tests conducted by TÜV SÜD in 2008 and DEKRA in 2009 and 2010 on sizes 175/65 R 14 T, 195/65 R 15 H and 205/55 R 16 V, with tyres available on the market at the time. ***Estimate of average saving with MICHELIN ENERGY™ Saver tyres compared to main competitors for petrol vehicles. TÜV SÜD Automotive 2009 rolling resistance tests on 15 key sizes for the European market (Michelin was first in 13 sizes and second in 2 sizes). Calculated over the March 2012 INMOTION average life span for Michelin tyres i.e. 28,000 miles (internal source).

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“European legislation concerning safety and the environment should be made on the basis of sound evidence. This report is disappointing as the evidence of all key stakeholders, in particular users and suppliers, has not been included.” FIA Region I Director General Jacob Bangsgaard on an EU motorcycle ABS report that the region branded “flawed”

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FIA Region I appointment Launch of European BRUSSELS ms Frederikke Bollerup-Jensen has joined the staff of the FiA Region i office in Brussels. Apart from her projects on eMobility native Danish, Frederikke also speaks fluent English and Spanish. She began work within the office late last year supported by the FIA as an intern and has now began work as a full-time Junior Project manager. Her main responsibility will be to BRUSSELS the FiA Region i office recently participated in provide administrative support to the region as well as the launch of four European emobility pilot projects supporting the office in the organisation of FiA Region i (SmartCEm, iCt4EVU, moBi.Europe, and moLECULES) at events, including the creation and dissemination of the European Parliament. Each strives to enhance user campaign and event materials. experience and acceptance of electric vehicles through demonstrations on test sites across Europe. Werner Kraus, President of FiA Region i, explained why the FiA has agreed to partner the smartCEm pilot project. “Raising consumer awareness is key for the adoption of new technologies and the FiA and its member clubs are best placed to play this role,” he said. “that’s why the FiA fully supports the smartCEm initiative and the demonstration of emobility as a real alternative for our day-to-day mobility.” Jacob Bangsgaard, Director General, Region i said: “the successful application of intelligent transport Systems can remove some of the main barriers to consumer adoption of electric vehicles, for example, anxiety over range. SmartCEm will help demonstrate that intelligent mobility solutions can allow emobility to meet the needs of everyday life. the added value of these projects is their strong focus on collaboration between a broad base of stakeholders, including service providers, vehicle manufactures, energy providers, local authorities, and research institutes. our participation keeps the FiA to the fore of the debate on emobility in Europe.” 004 005 (ESC). in an accident the roof of Collision Prevention Assist Swedish motorbike alarm is capable of bearing 4.2 and City Safety respectively. Euro NCAP unveils times the car’s actual weight. Both are examples of helps save riders’ lives Euro nCAP also rewarded Autonomous Emergency GOTHENBURG Fast and adequate help at a traffic its best of 2011 several manufacturers for Braking Systems (AEB). accident can be crucial. Pawsec, together with the advanced safety features not Eleven cars achieved four Swedish motorcyclists Association (SmC) and teliaSonera, yet included in the ratings stars, while the poorest result recently announced the world’s first intelligent alarm MOTORING A solid safety While Audi walked away scheme. the Ford Focus, was achieved by the Dacia system for motorcycles, CQrify mC, at the motorcycle record has become absolutely with the Small off-Road 4x4 offered with optional Active Duster SUV, with three stars. show På två Hjul in Gothenburg. essential and indispensable category, it was the little City Stop, Driver Alert Euro nCAP also made special About 40 per cent of all fatal accidents on motorcycles for car manufacturers on the Chevrolet that stood out. A Forward Alert and Lane mention of the Ford Ranger, are single-vehicle accidents. most incidents occur on European market and thanks five-door family city car, the Keeping Aid, made headlines the only pick-up tested by minor roads with low traffic density and a speed limit of to ever-evolving technology, Aveo has six airbags as as the first high volume car Euro nCAP in 2011. the 70kph. Sometimes it takes a long time before these single- an array of new safety standard, a four-channel anti- receiving four rewards. Ranger is the safest pick-up vehicle accidents are discovered by passing road users. features and sophisticated lock braking system (ABS) mercedes’ B Class and the yet tested by the organisation According to Jesper Christensen, Secretary General of systems are available to car with brake assist and new Volvo V60 were also and scored highly in all areas SmC, CQrify mC is linked to the driver’s smartphone. if an buyers today. Electronic Stability Control commended for the provision of assessment, most notably accident occurs a signal is sent to the alarm centre. the Euro nCAP’s ratings reflect in pedestrian protection. alarm operator can analyse relevant information about the progress made in this With electric cars hitting what happened seconds before the accident and hear the regard and highlights cars Europe’s roads this year, the sound from the accident scene. this enables the operator designed to exceed organisation released the to assess what action is needed and relay details to the expectations on safety and results of four EVs. Plug-in ambulance team as soon as it is routed to the scene. those that fall short. As such, vehicles are exposed to the “SmC’s involvement in the development of CQrify mC the organisation recently same test conditions as their has been primarily to define the product based on the announced its best in class gasoline counterparts, while motorcyclists’ needs, and not government,” Christensen winner for 2011. that a Volvo special attention is paid to explains. “this means that we have a product that can features on the list won’t battery integrity after a not only save lives, but also enables the individual surprise many, but the news crash. the nissan LEAF was motorcyclist to analyse their riding outside perspectives that the Chevrolet Aveo stole the first of its kind to achieve such as speed and traffic situations.” away with the Supermini Euro nCAP five -star Luca Pascotto, mobility Director, FiA Region i said: category surely will. the overall rating, placing itself “We believe this system has the potential to reduce the results also saw Ford, Audi amongst this year’s best severity of accidents and save many lives Europe-wide.” and mercedes score well. small family cars.

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HIRIKO WE GO The CityCar project has now been taken over by UNFOLDING Hiriko, a Spanish consortium based in Vitoria, near Bilbao. Their version of the car the future has a top speed of 90kph on the open road Dreamed up at renowned research facility and 50 kph in urban areas. It has a range of MIT and now entering production in Spain, 120km. The car also could this space-saving, folding electric features a haptic car be the future of urban transport? steering wheel, which responds to touch and vibration. The first Hiriko cars are due to come off the production line next year.

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BOSTON/BILBAO If asked to nominate Media Lab at the Massachusetts and said: ‘Dream of a city you want to upwards to reduce the vehicle’s two actuators that assist with the the two major obstacles in the way of Institute of Technology, where the live in and think what you would parked footprint from 2.5 metres (8ft folding, but because there is no engine building effective urban transport aim is to ‘invent a better future’. One design for it.’ So everyone starting 2in) just 1.5 metres (4ft 11in) when in the front and the batteries are systems, the most common responses of its research groups focused on thinking about it and that is how the parked. Couple this with the car’s located in the rear, there is not much would probably be – lack of space and Smart Cities, with the goal of making ideas came about.” front entry and it meant that CityCar weight to lift. You can even be inside it lack of energy sources. urban living more functional and as a Supported by General Motors, the could be parked nose-to-kerb, greatly when it folds up.” Older cities in particular suffer result less stressful. The CityCar, soon group announced its CityCar concept reducing the street space it took up. When GM went into administration from a lack of space and traffic flow is to go into production as the Hiriko, is in 2005. A two-person vehicle, Indeed, it is possible to park four such in 2008 and funding dried up it often constrained by narrow streets, the result of the group’s work. weighing just 450kg, the CityCar cars in the space usually required for seemed that the project would grind which lead to confusing and “The story began in 2000 when would be 60 per cent the size of a one car. to a halt. However, a Spanish haphazard road networks. On the Professor Bill Mitchell and I put Smart Car. Powered by a lithium-ion “The folding system is divided into consortium, Hiriko, picked up the energy side, the problem is obvious – together a proposal to work with the battery it would be able to go 120km two compartments,” Chin explains. baton and the car, largely unchanged, dwindling resources and the need to architect Frank Gehry to design a car between charges and would have a “There is the passenger cabin, which is set to finally go into production pursue energy beyond fossil fuels. with General Motors,” says MIT top speed of 50kph in urban areas. pivots forward on the front axle, and next year, with plans for 9,000 cars a These were among the issues researcher Ryan Chin. “Bill came The key, though, was the car’s then there is the rear section that year by 2015. Could it be the future of confronted a dozen years ago by the from an urban planning background ability to fold, with the cab sliding tucks underneath the cabin. There are urban transport?

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in all sporting competitions as a The FIA says the FIA aims to means of raising awareness. EU failed to listen President carry on to suppliers such President todt then moved on to as Bosch, whose pushes for Albania, where the Automobile Club camping ABS 9 system is of Albania revealed that over half of shown here. all fatal accidents in the country are TOURISM tourism road safety in caused by speeding, with one third of continues to be a key fatal accident happening to drivers generator of demand for Balkans and with between three and six years’ mobility, whether in experience. As such the club, in terms of business or on Africa visit committing to FiA Action for Road leisure. With over 60 per Safety, pledged to raise awareness on cent of holiday trips PARIS FiA President Jean todt has speeding, seat belt use and drink made by car, the FiA is been busy advocating on behalf of FiA driving. working hard to support Action for Road Safety, undertaking a Following his Balkan travels, the the role of clubs in this tough travel schedule in order to meet President next visited two African growing market and with representatives of clubs from a countries to measure progress on Japan hosts driving the Camping Card number of different territories in a bid road safety in the territories. After instructor training international (CCi) has to spread the message of the campaign. productive discussions with olivier recently introduced the President first travelled to Kamitatu, President of the Federation NARITA As part of its response to the Un additional features. Macedonia, where he visited the Avto- Automobile De la Republique Decade of Action, the Japan Automobile the CCi began in 1953 Moto Sojuz na Makedonija club Democratique Du Congo (FEDACo) Federation (JAF) recently hosted a series of as a joint effort between (AMSM). there, at a press conference, Mr todt met with government training programmes for driving instructors the FiA and its partners, which featured President todt and ministers to discuss how road safety from across Region ii for the second time. the international government representatives, the focus awareness could be raised through JAF officials shared their long experience Federation of Camping was on the safety, or otherwise, of advocacy by local sports stars and on and know-how in traffic safety with clubs and Caravanning (FiCC) roads in the country, with the result the rally raid the local federation will from countries where traffic fatalities are and the Alliance that the government created a national organise in 2013, at which the FiA expected to rise in the future. internationale de strategy for Road Safety 2009-2014 in President will be the guest of honour. the training, partially funded by the FiA, tourisme (Ait), to offer order to decrease the number of road From there it was on to nigeria. was supported by the Japanese national discounts to campers traffic accident victims in Macedonia. According to the World Health Police Agency, and an officer from the force worldwide. the AMSM also signed a commitment organisation, the country has the gave a presentation demonstrating today, the CCi card form in support of FiA Action for Road third highest number of road deaths successful policies for reducing traffic 008 provides considerable Safety, pledging to increase awareness in the world and Mr todt was deaths by one-third. in all, seven personnel 009 discounts to holders of of drink driving, safety belt wear and encouraged to learn that a new road from four clubs in the region took part; the card at more than to drop further once the legislation on speeding. safety campaign will begin in the ikatan Motor indonesia (iMi), the 1,500 campsites in 26 ‘Flawed’ report ABS is passed. the President then met with the country in 2013, featuring a travelling Automobile Association of Malaysia (AAM), European countries. the “these figures highlight the significant Automobile Federation Macedonia education programme which will the Korea Automobile Association (KAA), discount can be as much leaves FIA Region I difference that exists between the cost (AFM) where he again pressed home educate drivers and pedestrians on and the recently founded Automobile as 25 per cent in both of ABS to manufacturers and the price the message of the campaign and road safety, with particular emphasis Association of Cambodia (AAC). high season and low ‘disappointed’ consumers pay,” added Bangsgaard. received a commitment from the club on targeting students from primary opening the programme, JAF President season. the CCi Card is “By making ABS mandatory, legislators to use the Action for Road Safety logo school to university level. Setsuo tanaka told the participants: “it is available to all members BRUSSELS An EU report on the cost-benefit can make sure manufacturers are not JAF’s mission to share our longtime of an FiA affiliated club analysis of Anti-Lock Braking Systems for making high profits on optional safety FIA President Jean Todt experience and know-how in traffic safety and is valid for one year motorcycles (ABS) has been branded technologies.” meets the media in Albania. with our partner clubs in Region ii. i hope from the date of “flawed” by Region i of the FiA, with the the FiA statement pointed out that, in its you will learn more than what you need purchase. For more office’s Director General Jacob Bangsgaard, opinion, the report report “dismisses and implement in your country.” details see: www camping saying that the “disappointing” report had future savings as a result of economies of over the course of two days’ of lectures cardinternation-al.com. failed to include evidence from a number of scale once the legislation is passed. this is and practical lessons at the nihon key stakeholders in the system. in total contradiction to the experience of Automobile College in narita, the “European legislation concerning safety Electronic Stability Control (ESC), which participants were schooled in a number of and the environment should be made on became mandatory in november 2011. driving techniques from basic to the the basis of sound evidence,” commented Suppliers say the introduction of the ESC advanced safety technology including ABS Bangsgaard. “this report is disappointing technology has led to a 75 per cent and eSafety (Pre-crash Braking System). as the evidence of all key stakeholders, in reduction of price over the past 15 years.” Edwin Haryono, Vice Secretary General particular users and suppliers, has not Mr Bangsgaard added: “if European of iMi, said the training would be useful in been included. the report appears to have legislators had made the same mistake his own clubs’ activities. “it should be a been rushed, with questions (existing) over when debating the benefits of ESC, the standard training for safe driving across the methodology used.” technology would not be mandatory today, Region ii,” he said. According to an FiA statement, the key and we would not be benefiting from the His sentiments were echoed by Bora findings of the study are based only on the 4,000 lives saved each year as a result.” Moeu, the President/CEo of AAC, who said: use of manufacturers’ 2011 figures for the the FiA concluded by saying it regrets “this training is important for other clubs. price (€500) paid by consumers for ABS that the analysis “fails to provide a ‘high it should be continued and other clubs systems. However, the FiA insists that cost’ and a ‘low cost’ scenario, which should attend in order to bring the suppliers say manufacturers only pay as would have allowed for a more realistic experience back to their own countries.” little as €150, including fitting, for the ABS assessment of the potential benefits of JAF will host the third Region ii Driving technology today, with the price expected the proposed legislation on ABS.” instructors training in october 2012.

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President urges EU President visits Commissioner to Bentley factory focus on road safety CREWE As part of Volkswagen’s plans to expand its motor sport BRUSSELS the FiA President, Jean todt, presence, FiA President Jean todt, recently took the opportunity to meet with at the invitation of Mr Wolfgang Mr Siim Kallas, Vice-President of the Durheimer, the CEo of Bentley Commission and Commissioner in charge and Bugatti and the person in of transport at the European Commission charge of Volkswagen Motorsport in Brussels. within the VAG Group, recently During the meeting President todt Motor sports paid a visit to the headquarters of reminded the European Commissioner that the Bentley car brand in Crewe, each of the Region 1 member clubs is fully Doctorate England. committed to achieving road safety for ATCUAE After a lengthy discussion objectives and both men agreed that their concerning the sports activities respective organisations shared a common Director of the VAG Group, Wolfgang goal in this regard. Durheimer introduced his Mr todt added that the FiA is only too ANU DHABI AtCUAE principal staff members at Bentley willing to join the Commission in organising Director of Strategy Sean to President todt before taking common actions aimed at promoting the o’Connor has been him on a guided visit around the Road Safety action plan. awarded a PhD for his plant where the luxury cars are Mr Kallas stressed the excellent level of research into the constructed. co-operation with the FiA clubs, as well as management and the FiA President was with the FiA’s Brussels office, on all the marketing for Formula impressed by the contrast initiatives taken by the European Union for one and World Rally between the ultra-modern the benefit of motorists. Championship events. mechanical unit, with its array of the irishman, who has robots, and the departments worked in motor sport where the final touches, using for over 30 years, also leather and wood, are still carried has a Masters degree as a out in a traditional way that result of research into reflects all the care that is taken 010 tV coverage and WRC. over the niceties of a Bentley’s 011 “i welcome this finish. the President was achievement by Sean in particularly interested in the securing his Doctorate wide choice of leather available and so adding to and by the different qualities of knowledge in the wood used to build a vehicle that complex motor sport has lost nothing of its reputation management,” said as a luxury car. AtCUAE President Mohammed Ben adopted the slogan “Green Performance”. Tyre Their designs are Region I Club Sulayem. the modern Cinturato tyres have reduced realized at the motor Pirelli uses F1 to provider sport department in Dr o’Connor has rolling resistance, which results in fuel Izmit, where nearly 200 Conference set pioneered the keeps promote ‘green’ savings for the driver. the tyres are made F1 in people are employed. for Belgrade relationship between from eco-compatible materials that The tyres developed are AtCUAE and the minimise environmental impact and are Turkey manufactured on a BELGRADE this year’s FiA Region i University of Ulster message designed to last on average 30 per cent special F1 production The Turkish Grand international Club Conference (iCC) will be which has taught Sports longer than traditional tyres. line, which covers an Prix may have held in Belgrade, Serbia, from tuesday, 8 Studies for over 50 years MILAN/IZMIT Formula one tyre supplier now the Cinturato brand is being used for area of 15,000 square disappeared from the metres and features the May to Friday, 11 May, 2012. the Automobile in the UK. Currently six Pirelli is using its involvement in the sport the wet weather tyres in Formula one. Formula One and Motorcycle Association of Serbia students are enrolled in to highlight its efforts in sustainability. the “F1 is a very visible,” says Pirelli latest production calendar, but Turkey machinery available. (AMSS) have organised an excellent research degree italian multi-national has badged its wet F1 chairman Marco tronchetti Provera. “And is still an important The processes used in programmes via programme of activities for the event. tyres with the Cinturato name, reinventing it shows that you can have performance and territory for the sport Izmit are based on Key issues under discussion will include AtCUAE and the a model dating back to the 1950s. be green at the same time. if we produce – as Pirelli’s entire energy and water road safety actions following up on last university in the area Synonymous with speed and power light tyres you can reduce emissions and F1 motor sport efficiency and the year’s successful launch of the Un Decade of motor sport through the ’70s, the model has been tyres are very light, so the emissions are production is carried reduction of emissions, out at the company’s of Action, new measures aimed at lowering management. dormant for two generations but was very low. such carbon dioxide. plant in Izmit. emissions, and the rising cost of motoring revived to help promote Pirelli’s image as “Waste rubber is not easily biodegradable, Special attention has for consumers. A particular focus this year an innovator, specifically in eco-friendly but there are a number of ways where we Design work on the been given to the tyres is done by 150 will be placed on iMobility and its potential products. new processes eliminate the can do things: using the rubber in trucks recycling of used F1 research engineers tyres, most of which to make individual mobility safer, greener, aromatic oils in the tyres and minimise the tyres; in rubberized asphalt for new roads who work exclusively end up being used in the and smarter. environmental impact, both at the and in the production of new forms of on F1 at the Pirelli manufacture of tyres For registration to this year’s event, production stage and over the life of the concrete. this is all part of a programme research and for trucks. Jean Todt with Bentley’s please go to www.fiaregion1.com or contact tyre, without affecting performance. to reduce our consumption and cut down development Wolfgang Durheimer Ms Sinziana Gille at [email protected]. to emphasise this the company has on waste.” laboratories in Milan.

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established in 1822 when Breton it’s share safety and performance. our battery is pay and drive René Bolloré established a business and share unique. the technology has permitted manufacturing very thin paper, learned alike us to develop a car that runs 250km, after visiting China. For the next 100 a bus that goes 140 or 150 km, without years the business flourished, selling Autolib’ is by far the noise and without fumes. And from a most ambitious car paper to be used for tracing and household perspective people can have share scheme ever in Bibles. When cigarettes became launched, although a sort of suitcase in their home in which FREEDOM fashionable, Bolloré provided the paper they can store electricity when it is cheap there have been and by the 1950s it had a 10 per cent many others, dating and use it when it is most expensive.” share of the worldwide cigarette market. back to 1974 when “Autolib’ is both a great showcase it also became a big player in teabags Dutchman Luud and an effective stress-test for the cars,” OF THE and capacitors. Schimmelpennink he says. “it will allow us to show that in the 1970s the family had to sell set up Witkar in despite frequent recharging the battery ages Amsterdam. It the business but Vincent Bolloré iM will work. if our batteries are really received little bought it back a few years later and better than those of our rivals then etty support and was g began restructuring, diversifying with closed down in 1986. things will develop a great deal.” CITY investments in tobacco, shipping and the Autolib’ cars have a top speed of Most schemes that After changing the way Parisians navigate their city advertising, as well as more speculative 130kmh. they are 3.65 metres in length

onzales, followed involved with its widely copied Velib´ bicycle-share scheme, forays into other businesses. g customers having to and can carry four people and even have Bolloré bought into batScap in 2004. return the cars to the space for two average sized suitcases. the city fathers and entrepreneur Vincent Bolloré are He reckons the group has so far invested pick-up location. they are available to anyone aged 18 or repeating the feat, but this time with electric cars €1.5 billion in battery development, Among the more older with a valid driving license who including buying a Canadian company successful was takes out a paid subscription. the user Germany’s StattAuto,

called Avestor – the only other business aris (2), Francisco enters a cabin at the docking station and in 2007, Paris began operating a bicycle- metal Polymer (LmP) battery. these are with the technology to manufacture which was started in connects to an operator to register the share system called Velib’. the scheme able to store five times as much energy LmP batteries – and building a factory at 1988 and worked with driving licence and credit card details. the German railways offered people the opportunity to hire as traditional car batteries and have a Ergué-Gabéric in Brittany. to provide cars for they are then issued with a card that a bicycle, ride wherever they wanted, life of more than 200,000km. Bolloré chose to embark on car rail travellers when unlocks the car, which features GPS and leave it there. Since then there have “As an entrepreneur you have to take building to promote the batteries and navigation and an on-board computer urliat/Mairie de p they reached their been more than 100 million rentals and risks,” Bolloré says. “it is the role of the Bolloré BlueCar was the result of a destination. In 2004 that not only guides the driver to a the idea has been copied in cities all over industrialists to innovate. taking leaps collaboration with italian design house it was bought by the docking station, but also allows him to the world. in technology is part of the DnA of this Pininfarina and former matra designer Dutch firm Collect reserve space before he gets there. 012 now Paris is moving on to Autolib’, a company.” Philippe Guédon. the Autolib’ cars are a Car and has since managing the Autolib’ infrastructure 013 similar initiative, but using electric cars. Groupe Bolloré has a long history development of that design. “We calculate around 100,000 been rebranded as is not going to be easy, however. subscribers. I am convinced this will the scheme was launched last December during which it has had to adapt and “the key to electric cars is the battery,” Greenwheels. “People forget that the Bolloré Group be a great success over the next 10 In the US, Zipcar has with 250 cars and 250 docking stations. change a great deal. today it has a he says, “and we are the only ones to years,” says Vincent Bolloré (below) is also a leading logistics company,” he the aim is to increase this to 1,100 turnover of €8.5 billion and around manufacture this kind of technology. it 9,000 vehicles and says. “We know how to have things in of his Autolib’ electric car scheme. 650,000 subscribers

docking stations and 2,000 cars by the 35,000 employees. the firm was is superior to other batteries in terms of g Jean-Baptiste photography: the right places at the right times. As and has finally begun summer, and eventually 3,000 cars and to make a profit after with a lot of revolutionary products it 6,600 stations. 12 years. It allows will take a little time to get right. We Autolib’ is the idea of Paris’s mayor cars to be reserved do have experience from La Rochelle, Bertrand Delanoë, who awarded the and driven in 28 cities although those cars were of an older contract to Groupe Bolloré in December in North America and generation. if we transpose the figures 2010. it has been a big investment for the in the UK, but they from there to Paris we calculate around company, with estimates of around €150 must be returned to 100,000 subscribers and i am convinced million to get the programme started. the pick-up location. that this will be a great success over the “We have had to provide not only Car2Go, a subsidiary next 10 years.” all the cars, but also everything of Daimler AG, began the company has calculated that around them: the recharging points, in Ulm, Germany, in Autolib’ will start making money in 2008. It has expanded the communication units and all the about seven years if there are 80,000 to 10 cities including other infrastructure,” says company Amsterdam, Austin subscribers using the cars twice a chairman Vincent Bolloré. “But this is a San Diego and week, for more than one hour on each revolutionary product, the first real car- Hamburg. Customers occasion. thus far the response has sharing scheme in the world. You can leave the cars where been positive. the scheme gained 6,000 have a car that you can take somewhere they like, with the subscribers – twice the expected number and you do not have to take it back to the next client then – in the first few weeks. However, there same place. this is an opportunity for finding the car and have been more malfunctions and the people of Paris and visitors to try an the level of charge vandalism than was expected as well. left on the Internet. electric car and to see what it is like.” Bolloré believes that profits will come the company has been working on A pioneering one- and believes there will be more than way service was La electric cars for more than 15 years, 100,000 subscribers and that each car Rochelle’s Lisélec, but Bolloré’s goal is not to be a motor begun in 1999. It will be used more than 10 times per manufacturer. instead, he wants to sell provided electric day. there are also plans to integrate batteries, developed by batScap, one cars and a limited the scheme into the existing ticketing of his subsidiaries. the company has number of charging systems for Paris’s traditional modes of designed a unique solid-state Lithium stations in the city. public transport.

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probably the most important thing to which means that drivers can really get understand in modern single-seater “Before f2, the to understand the circuits. opinion racing. in every other formula you need We also have a strong partnership to pit to do this, losing valuable track path to f1 was with motors tV, which will continue to time, which is a big handicap when incrediBly provide extensive coverage of the series. practice sessions are short. this will be available in 38 countries Formula two has much more practice expensive and around the world, predominantly in school time than most comparable series, as Europe. motors tV screens each of well – a full 90 minutes – and then there for some, just the 16 races live, as part of a one-hour are two separate qualifying sessions. impossiBle” programme, with a pre-race build up, So there is a lot of time to make set up podium presentations and post-race for changes and learn how to make your car interviews. Each is shown at fixed start quick. All the drivers can see the data times, so that people know when to and onboard video footage of the fastest watch – just as with F1. there will also driver from each session, as well as video be regular highlight shows. from their own sessions – something that in addition to this every race will be champions has yielded huge performance gains for a streamed live on via the F2 website. We As Formula Two enters its fourth year, series Chief lot of our drivers in the past are working with a number of partners Executive JonAThAn PAlmEr explains why, in to give drivers a good idea where to to secure wider distribution of race start they are given a baseline set-up and highlights and F2 race footage is now uncertain economic times, the FIA’s major feeder can discuss set-up with their engineers. being broadcast to a global potential of series makes more sense than ever to keep down costs a driver shares his more than a billion households. As we F2 engineer with two other drivers, own the rights to the footage we can although they can also have their own help out drivers in their own national this year marks the fourth season in are the same. At the start of the race engineer if they like. However only the markets, by providing footage to any the new era of the FiA Formula two meeting no-one has an advantage. F2 supplied engineer can communicate driver’s local news channels. We can Championship and there are a number We also limit the things that drivers with the driver or his mechanic during even provide a Live tV feed if requested. of changes this year. We’re delighted to can change, so as to keep costs to a any session. the F2 engineers move We also have our own online video have Yokohama as a new partner and minimum. Spring changes front and rear around on a rotational basis, moving to channel, which we call F2tV, which from what we have seen in testing so far are limited to two options apiece. there a different driver group each event, to offers a wide range of videos on the we are confident that the new tyres are are also two options of rear anti-roll bar. provide the optimum equality. At the series from both on and off the track. going to offer not only better pace, but the front anti-roll bar has an extensive same time it also teaches the drivers how the top three points scorers in the 014 also improved consistency. range of adjustment, via a cockpit to work with different engineers, which F2 Championship are all eligible for a 015 i believe that this is crucial in control. the drivers cannot change the makes them more adaptable. FiA Superlicence, which is required in maintaining the completely equal gear ratios or differential settings – these Reliability is vital to maintaining order for a driver to be able to compete environment that F2 provides. We are optimised for each circuit. confidence in the series and attention to in Formula one. on top of that the continue to work closely with Williams At the same time there is still a huge detail is really important. in 2011, we had champion gets a full test drive with the F1 and this year’s JPH1B F2 car is an amount they can change, including ride a total of 352 car-starts in the races with Williams F1 team during the official incredibly sophisticated machine. the heights, camber, tracking, wing flaps, only five failures, which is 1.4 per cent. Rookies test at the end of the year. design has been upgraded and we have damping, tyre pressures and even the i think that is a remarkable figure. this is an incredible opportunity and new carbon composite brakes, which, engine mapping, so they learn a lot. the other thing we have done to they receive not only great track time but allied to the tyres, will result in lap times i think one of the major advantages is enhance the benefits of the series is to also engineering support and technical around two seconds faster than last year, that a driver can adjust the front wing alter the calendar to visit more tracks advice. the driver is also fully prepared based on the testing we have done. of the car from the steering wheel, that are used by Formula one, so that beforehand, working with the team and Formula two was revived by the FiA in which means he can balance the car drivers get a broader education. this learning on the simulator. other drivers 2009 in order to give young drivers the aerodynamically as he or she drives. year we have eight venues, including Spa are paying hundreds of thousands of opportunity to show their potential in a this enables them to make more changes and monza and, for the first time, the Euros to get such an opportunity, so our much more cost-effective environment faster and to gain more experience of Hungaroring. At each event we have a alliance with Williams is very valuable. than the other available championships. what is the optimum aero balance – maximum of 230 minutes of track time, this year we have a new prize for the Before F2 came along, the path to F1 was rookie of the year. the best rookie gets incredibly expensive and for some it was two days of free winter testing during just impossible. others were unable to the championship’s regular winter test es Bearne

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they can to direct the exhaust gases down into the area where they want “The cars all look a F1 2012 them. i think, it will be 20 per cent of what they had before. i suspect we’ll biT like ducks buT have to have another go at it in 2013. “We put all these constraints into our ThaT’s noT really electronic control unit (ECU) code, so our problem” BEATING that they can’t operate outside this. the ECU and its software had to be approved by the FiA. Generally, we want to stop them producing exhaust gases when the THE driver is off-throttle.” the 2011 season also saw teams experiment with front wings that moved under load and the sport has introduced laws to govern the amount of movement. BOFFINS “By introducing a new test we Formula One’s rules are a constant battleground, with have effectively halved the permitted the FIA closing loopholes in the law as quickly as team deflection,” he says. “With a 1,000 newton load they were allowed a engineers find them. Race Director ChARlIe WhItIng deflection of 20mm. As a result of this explains what’s been shut for the 2012 season they built wing after wing to be tested and to get the deflection to 19.9mm. We have had enough of this. twenty the exact formula that defines the the proliferation of ‘exhaust blown millimetres was a guideline. But then we world’s top open-wheel racing series is diffusers’ last year, a system whereby saw some extreme forms of deflecting a constantly moving target. the furious exhaust gases were ejected onto the rear on track. these wings had been designed speed of innovation at the top teams diffuser, effectively pushing the cars with flexibility in mind. We believe that means that the sport’s legislatorsface close to the track and providing better the principle as laid down in Article 3.15 often find themselves positioned as downforce and aerodynamic grip. is the key issue, not the guidelines for peacemakers in an ever-escalating An incredibly complex and emotive deflection limits in Article 3:17. technological arms race, frequently issue due the variety of systems in use, “We are allowed to introduce new 016 being called in to rule out brainwaves and their methods of activation, the only deflection tests if we feel that our 017 that sail marginally beyond the exact answer, according to Whiting, was to guidelines are not followed in the way letter of the regulations. outlaw the technology. He still admits, we think they should be. So there is this year’s set of rules is no however, that there will be ways around a new test which moves the pressure exception and in response to a litany of the legislation. point rearwards by 10mm and inboard developments over the past few years, “We all know that our new rule by 5mm and this reduces the permitted Race Director Charlie Whiting has cannot be 100 per cent effective,” he deflection to 10mm.” redrawn the regulations to once again says. “it is a classic case of not being able there have also been some changes to level a playing field that had become to unlearn things once they have been the rules about wheel guns? somewhat skewed. invented. the engineers know that there “We have banned the use of helium, the most noticeable thing about the are benefits to be had and there is still which was being used to make the wheel latest generation of cars is that most some scope for development in this area. guns operate faster. it was just madness have a step between the monocoque and And we can’t wipe the memories of the spending money on helium, when you the nose. this is because of a change of engineers like a computer, can we? can use compressed air.” regulation to lower the noses. “However, the systems won’t be nearly And what about new Sporting “the height of the survival cell was as effective as last year,” he adds. “the Regulations? You have restricted the 625 millimetres before,” says Whiting. rules only apply to the last 100mm of the maximum race time to four hours. “We wanted it to be 550 millimetres, tailpipes, which have to point between “Yes. if we have another race like but some teams began to complain, 10 and 30 degrees upwards. i’m pretty Canada [where torrential rain led to long saying they would have to completely sure, that they will all be on 10 rather stoppages and faltering light], then after redesign their cars and that this would than 30 degrees. they will probably four hours we will show the drivers a have knock-on effects on suspension introduce the exhaust gases in that final signal indicating that there is one more packaging. So we agreed that from a part of the tailpipe, at an angle, to get as lap to go. then they get the chequered point 1950mm in front of the rear edge much of the gas going down as they can. flag. the race in montreal lasted four of the cockpit template, the height the bodywork behind that exhaust gas hours and four minutes. it should not go should be at 550mm. the effect has will likely be designed in such a way that much longer than that.” been some rather ugly cars, with a step the exhaust gases stay attached to bring What about the new rule about drivers down from 625mm to 550mm at that them into the diffuser area. leaving the race track without reason? particular point. Yes, the cars all look a “We combined the exhaust rules “We have seen some drivers on in-laps tty

bit like ducks but thankfully that’s not with additional constraints on engine or reconnaissance laps cutting chicanes gE really our problem!” mapping and these will make it really to save time. Some engineers think that the second major change is a difficult to exploit the exhaust gases in they save a bit of fuel or time by doing limitation on the size and positioning the manner of last year. We are aware this. But if one driver does it, they all do

of the exhaust outlets, in response to however, that they will do as much as it and no one is going to use the track. → photography

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→ We could put barriers there to stop VIVE LA FRANCE! UGLY DUCKLINGS, RACING SWANS? that, but that looks stupid. The rules say 2012 F1 Season Preview It’s a bumper year for Frenchmen in F1. With F1 designers seeking that drivers should use the track. If they The Tricolore last fl ew in F1 when Romain 2011 SHAPE ever better ways in which to don‘t they will need to justify why.” THE LONG AND WINDING ROAD Grosjean raced the fi nal seven rounds channel air under their cars, F1 And what about the overtaking rule? of the 2009 championship and this year nosecones have in recent years The 2012 season is set to be the longest in sections, including a section based loosely on It says that if a driver has moved off the he returns for Lotus. Over at Toro Rosso, risen to heights the FIA considers Formula One history, with a whopping 20 Silverstone’s challenging Maggots/Becketts Jean-Éric Vergne will race alongside hazardous. This is particularly so racing line to defend and then moves races pencilled in. After the series raced for complex and a corner modeled on Istanbul Australian Daniel Ricciardo, while at in the event of a nose-to-sidepod back onto the line as he reaches a corner, the fi rst time in India last year, the headline- Park’s fearsome, triple-apex Turn 8. Match that Marussia Charles Pic partners Timo Glock. collision, where the nosecone of he must leave at least one car width. grabber this year will be the sport’s return to with the tech and college town atmosphere of Remarkably for a country with such a long one car might be higher than the “The problem goes back many years,” the USA after a fi ve-year absence, with a new cosmopolitan Austin, a town best known for and proud F1 tradition it’s the biggest side protection of another. he says. “The argument was that if the US GP due to be held at the newly constructed its superb South by Southwest citywide music French contingent since the Brazilian GP For 2012, the area ahead of the front bulkhead can be no higher than 550mm, while the area behind Circuit of the Americas in Austin, Texas. The festival and the US GP looks to have found an defending driver moves completely to of 1999, when Stephane Sarrazin made the bulkhead can go as high as 625mm. new 5.5km facility, designed by F1 circuit guru interesting new home. The race is set to be held the side to block the inside of the road, his single race appearance, lining up And the results are aesthetically challenging to say the say the least! Caterham got the ball rolling by Hermann Tilke will feature a number of exciting on the weekend of 16-18 November. and the other one tries to pass on the alongside Jean Alesi and Olivier Panis. leaking images of their car on Twitter and the CT-01’s duck-billed platypus styling quick put noses out outside instead, how far is the defending of joint beyond its own. Other teams followed and the fi rst test in Jerez was awash with cars in dire driver allowed to move back. If the TEAMS AND DRIVERS need of major rhinoplasty. Indeed, the only team out of step with the stepped nose is McLaren, whose driver behind is still able to go around gently curved nose is the cleanest solution of a pretty dirty dozen designs. The bottom line though will RED BULL RACING LOTUS WILLIAMS F1 be victories. No matter how ‘ugly’ a car appears at fi rst it will soon become a thing of great beauty the outside, it is okay. If not, it would th 2011: Champions 2011: 5 2011: 9th should it have its stepped nose in front at the end of the fi nal lap. have meant, that the driver in front Drivers: Drivers Drivers had made a second move to defend his 1. Sebastian Vettel Kimi Raikkonen Pastor Maldonado position. That is potentially dangerous Nationality: GER Nationality: FIN Nationality: VEN SIX OF THE VERY, VERY BEST Born: 03/07/1987 Born: 17/10/1979 Born: 09/03/1985 because there is the risk that one driver If you want a clue to just how good this season who will race for an already competitive looking Wins: 21. Poles: 30. World Titles: 2 Wins: 18. Poles: 16. World Titles: 1 Wins: 0. Poles: 0. World Titles: 0 will hit the back of the other. might be then you need look no further than the Lotus this season. With 18 wins and 62 podium 2011: Champion. 2011: Did not race 2011: 19th “We cannot ask the defending driver fact that six champions will line up on the grid, and fi nishes to his credit, as well as a reputation as the 2. Mark Webber Romain Grosjean Bruno Senna to stay completely on the inside line, but all in competitive machinery. quickest man in F1 when the mood was upon him, Nationality: AUS Nationality: FRA Nationality: BRA he may not come back so far that there is There’s two-time defending champion Sebastian Raikkonen sensationally walked away from F1 at the Born: 03/07/1987 Born: 17/04/1986 Born: 15/10/1983 Vettel at Red Bull Racing, while McLaren will fi eld end of 2009, headed for a career in rallying. There no room for the guy behind. In order to Wins: 7. Poles: 9. World Titles: 0 Wins: 0. Poles: 0. World Titles: 0 Wins: 0. Poles: 0. World Titles: 0 2009 title winner Jenson Button and 2008 victor he drove fi rst for the Citroen Junior Team and then avoid getting into arguments we decided 2011: 3rd 2011: Did not race 2011: 18th that there must be at least a car width.” Lewis Hamilton at McLaren. Double champion last year his own Ice Racing 1 team. He posted a best Fernando Alonso lines up for Ferrari again, while fi nish of fi fth at the 2010 Turkish round. Tyre use has also been revised, MCLAREN FORCE INDIA CATERHAM F1 over at Mercedes, the man he beat in ’05 and His return to F1 was marked in fi ne style with the 2011: 2nd 2011: 6th 2011: 10th offering drivers more options. ’06, Michael Schumacher, will make a bid for a fastest time in the fi rst session of the fi rst test of Drivers: Drivers Drivers “We have changed the tyre rules so staggering eighth world title. the year in Jerez last month. The return of the man 3. Jenson Button Paul Di Resta Heikki Kovalainen 018 that drivers may use more than three And the fi nal member of this illustrious sextet? It’s they call ‘The Iceman’ will make Formula One a 019 Nationality: GBR Nationality: GBR Nationality: FIN sets on Fridays. Each driver still gets 11 none other than 2007 champion Kimi Raikkonen, much more interesting prospect. Born: 19/01/1980 Born: 16/04/1986 Born: 19/10/1981 sets of tyres for the weekend, of which Wins: 12. Poles: 7. World Titles: 1 Wins: 0. Poles: 0. World Titles: 0 Wins: 1. Poles: 1. World Titles: 0 he has give back three on Friday and nd th 2011: 2 2011: 13 2011: 22nd GETTING A GRIP another two after Free Practice on 4. Lewis Hamilton Nico Hulkenberg Vitaly Petrov Saturday. We have also agreed that Nationality: GBR Nationality: DEU Nationality: RUS How cars and drivers dealt with tyres was the big talking point last year, with supplier Pirelli, at lapped cars that are between cars on the Born: 07/01/1985 Born: 19/08/1987 Born: 08/09/1984 the request of the governing body, bringing rubber that was much more prone to degradation. lead lap during a Safety Car intervention Wins: 17. Poles: 19. World Titles: 1 Wins: 0. Poles: 1. World Titles: 0 Wins: 0. Poles: 0. World Titles: 0 There was also a big difference in the performance of the various options on offer and tyre can pass the faster cars and drive 2011: 5th 2011: Did not race 2011: 10th strategy became a key factor in 2011. Pirelli have changed the game again for 2012. According to the company’s Motorsport Director around to the back of the field before Paul Hembery the performance gap between options was too great last season and will be much a race is re-started. We have had the FERRARI SAUBER HRT 2011: 3rd 2011: 7th 2011: 11th tighter this year. “We made it too easy for the teams by using soft compounds at each (race) rule before but we took it away because Drivers Drivers Drivers weekend,” he said. “This year we want to mix it up more. The teams were making choices based before it was very difficult to manage. 5. Fernando Alonso Kamui Kobayashi Pedro de la Rosa on tyres that had a 1.5 seconds difference – we have tried to get that down below one second and “Now we will make it easier by being Nationality: ESP Nationality: JPN Nationality: ESP the aim is to have it at around 0.8 seconds.” clearer about when the order to pass Born: 29/07/1981 Born: 13/09/1986 Born: 24/02/1971 The slimmer performance gap should mean that the race strategies are not so cut and dried and, will be established. That will be by the Wins: 27. Poles: 20. World Titles: 2 Wins: 0. Poles: 0. World Titles: 0 Wins: 1. Poles: 4. World Titles: 0 once qualifying is over with, there should be a wider variety of scenarios for starting the race. second time everyone has crossed the 2011: 4th 2011: 12th 2011: 20th The tyres, in general, are more aggressive, the compounds being softer and offering more grip. line behind the Safety Car. Once they are 6. Felipe Massa Sergio Pérez Narain Karthikeyan As such the racing should be even more exciting. The Italian company has also made its tyre ‘fl avours’ more recognisable this year, with improved colour coding so that spectators can easily in the correct order, we tell the lapped Nationality: BRA Nationality: MEX Nationality: IND identify the tyres a driver has opted for. drivers that they can overtake. Born: 25/04/1981 Born: 26/01/1990 Born: 24/02/1971 Wins: 11. Poles: 15. World Titles: 0 Wins: 0. Poles: 0. World Titles: 0 Wins: 0. Poles: 0. World Titles: 0 “We also made a few changes at the 2011: 6th 2011: 16th 2011: 26th WMSC meeting in Milan,” he concludes. “We decided that one set of dry weather MERCEDES SCUDERIA TORO ROSSO MARUSSIA tyres can be carried over to Saturday if 2011: 4th 2011: 8th 2011: 12th both Friday sessions are wet. The reason Drivers Drivers Drivers for that is to give the teams the chance Michael Schumacher Daniel Ricciardo Timo Glock to run more laps on Saturday. We also Nationality: DEU Nationality: AUS Nationality: DEU decided that we would clarify things Born: 03/01/1969 Born: 01/07/1989 Born: 18/03/1982 with regard to DRS use so that we can Wins: 91. Poles: 68. World Titles: 7 Wins: 0. Poles: 0. World Titles: 0 Wins: 0. Poles: 0. World Titles: 0 2011: 8th 2011: 27th 2011: 25th prohibit the use of the adjustable rear Slicks: Wet weather tyres: Nico Rosberg Jean-Eric Vergne Charles Pic P Zero Red – Supersoft Cinturato Blue – Full wet wing if we feel that visibility is too poor Nationality: DEU Nationality: FRA Nationality: FRA in wet conditions. We did that on safety P Zero Yellow – Softer Cinturato Green – Born: 27/06/1985 Born: 25/04/1990 Born: 15/02/1990 P Zero White – Medium Intermediate grounds because of concerns about the Wins: 0. Poles: 0. World Titles: 0 Wins: 0. Poles: 0. World Titles: 0 Wins: 0. Poles: 0. World Titles: 0 P Zero Silver – Hard th

speed differential between cars.” 2011: 7 2011: Did not race RIGBYGRAPHIC: JOHN 2011: Did not race

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PAY ATTENTION calling and texting make me dangerous PROTECT MY CHILDREN keeP them safe in car seats RESPECT THE HIGHWAY CODE rules are there to Protect us all STOP WHEN I’M TIRED getting there late is better than not at all BELT UP all Passengers are my resPonsibility OBEY THE SPEED LIMIT my car is made of metal, Pedestrians and children are not DRIVE SOBER when i am drunk or on drugs, i am a danger on the road WEAR A HELMET motorbikes and bicycles don’t Protect my head LOOK AFTER MY VEHICLE i don’t want to kill anyone 020 021 BE COURTEOUS AND CONSIDERATE resPect other drivers

Dear Friends, The FIA Action for Road Safety campaign is at the centre of In the following articles you will read that by focusing on a simple everything the federation will be doing for many years to come. And set of messages encapsulated in the FIA’s Golden Rules for Safe that is right, as we have a pivotal role in the fundamental process Driving, we can successfully engage with all levels of institutions, of education and accident prevention, so that we signifi cantly as well as ‘real’ people who can act as ambassadors for roads participate to reduce road deaths and injuries over the next 10 years. safety in their communities. I trust that you will enjoy reading The fi gures are stark: 1.3 million people lose their lives on the world’s this special section on road safety. The hope is that it gives you roads each year, and another 50m are injured. Most are young people plenty of food for thought, so as to motivate you to commit to in fast-developing countries. It is a global tragedy and this is why we this campaign through your clubs, institutions, companies and on have set up our campaign to support the United Nations’ Decade of a personal basis too. Action for Road Safety, which targets 5 million lives saved by 2020. Jean Todt

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international Auto Show held in Detroit: infotainment is now what sells cars. According to Ron Szabo, Director of Delphi’s Forward Engineering, infotainment and Driver interface Business Unit, consumers are inevitably going to demand the same level of functionality in the car that they get at home or in the office, “it really is about providing consumers with those features and the connectivity they see in other environments – but designed in the most distraction-free way possible.” A cornerstone of Delphi’s concept is 23 user configurability – times more likely to in essence enlarging be involved in an tFt displays to accident if you text take over the space while driving #1#1 driven to formerly occupied by analogue gauges and dials and then allowing the driver to place information – within limits – where distraction they want it. this is believed to limit distraction, though the big advantage if you thought driving while using comes from integrating the displays with sensor technology to give the vehicle a a hands-free phone was safer than degree of discretion in what the driver is driving drunk, you’d be wrong… allowed to see. Gerry Witt, Manager of Advanced Driver interface Activity explains: 022 “Configurability will help us manage 023 distraction, particularly by alerting the driver to serious issues or by modifying the functionality of the vehicle based on driving conditions. For example during ack at the dawn of the motoring age, cars had all manner of cent of the brain activity that would “there’s a need to continue research a ‘high-traffic’ event – dense traffic levers, handles, clutches and pulleys for a driver to whirl, usually be tasked to driving, while that looks at how people interact with many distractions – we may want prod and pull in order to achieve forward motion. Distracting, researchers at the University of Utah with vehicles, how vehicles impart to disable certain features. in normal yes, but at 5-6kph events tend to creep up slowly. in the conclude that a call creates a real-world information and how vehicles prioritise situations we would use text-to-speech modern world the levers and pulleys have impairment equivalent to a the information drivers need. technology to read out text messages beenB replaced by keypads, buttons, touchscreens and blood-alcohol level of 0.08 “obviously there’s the risk that if from the driver’s cell phone but during clickwheels. they’re just as attention deflecting but per cent. Essentially, there’s the interaction between driver and a high-traffic period the system could the difference is the world is now coming towards the little difference between vehicle isn’t done well, the end result is just alert the driver that a text message vehicle at 130kph. making a phone call and a cluttered steering wheel, console and has been received but not process that Driving has never been so distracting. the world driving while drunk. an instrument cluster filled with all sorts six years on, they’re a major player message until the situation has passed. outside the vehicle is filled with traffic and advertising, 0.08% But even without the of buttons and displays that distract the in automotive electronics and heavily “Likewise, the configurable display while the car itself doles out more information than blood alcohol concentration external devices that people using them.” involved in vehicle safety, infotainment has the capability to display lots of ever before. And then the ubiquitous portable devices eQuals the level of imPairment litter vehicles, there’s Simply banning the technology from systems and the nebulous area that information but it can choose to not. if we can’t live without outside the vehicle turn out to be caused by making a hands-free Phone still an increasing level of the vehicle is one option but in a battle exists between the two. their latest the driver monitoring system senses the pretty useful inside too. Keeping hands on the wheel call. that’s the eQuivalent of information being offered between legality and convenience, concept, called ‘MyFi, Connecting driver is in a high workload situation it and eyes on the road has become a part-time job. three drinks for a Person of 63kg to the driver in the form of history backs convenience, so ordering with Safety’, is an all-encompassing can reduce the information down to a that’s bad news: studies show that even taking your Satnav, extra functionality people to put away smart phones and system designed to provide drivers the very basic level and maybe limit access eyes off the road for two seconds significantly increases the likelihood for DAB and so on. it’s a complicated iPods isn’t going to work. the alternative infotainment options they’ve come to to certain features. it’s not necessarily of crashing. Research conducted by the Virginia tech transportation environment in which to work. is to manage their use by controlling expect while supporting the ideal of eyes something that would prove popular but institute suggests a driver engaged in text-messaging takes their eyes off in the UK the Royal Society for the the interface – which means integrating on the road and hands on the wheel. it it is important to make sure the driver is the road in 4.6-second bursts. And given that texting involves both visual Prevention of Accidents cites driver the device with the car. focuses heavily on voice recognition, focused on the driving task.” and manual distractions it’s not surprising to read a US Department of distraction as one of the key areas to be Delphi first began text-to-speech translation, if that sounds a little like the car is transport statistic claiming a texting driver is up to 23 times more likely to tackled in making roads safer. distracting drivers large touchscreens and gently urging the driver to pay more be involved in a crash. “there isn’t always anything to be in 1936 when a configurable displays. attention, the next feature is more Less appreciated than visual and manual distractions are cognitive done about distraction outside the direct predecessor tellingly, Delphi chose to like a slap on the wrist. “it’s called the distractions. Many parts of the world have banned the use of handheld vehicle but inside there is a lot more of the company launch it at the Consumer exogenous alert,” says Szabo. “if our phones while driving, which creates a belief that using a hands-free phone to say about how distraction can be first put a radio 28% Electronics Show in Las driver state sensor sees the driver is not is safe. Research by the Center for Cognitive Brain imaging at Carnegie prevented,” argues Duncan Vernon, into a production more lane excursions Vegas, rather than the paying attention for an extended period Mellon University demonstrates that such a phone call takes up 37 per RoSPA road safety manager for England. dashboard. Seventy- and 140% more incorrect concurrent north American of time it’ll flash a bright light in their → lane changes by drivers sending and receiving inMotion | March 2012 text messages March 2012 | inMotion indepth indepth

→ peripheral vision. 27% to put the important Because the natural of american adults admit information,” explains response to a flash of light to having sent or read Gert-Dieter tuzar, is to look in that direction, text messages while principle designer for it draws the driver back to driving HMi, Johnson Controls. the eyes-forward position – “We will have systems which is where they should be.” in the future that use a bigger area of the Johnson Controls international (JCi) windshield,” he adds. “ten or 15 years in produced 7 million instrument clusters/ the future the windshield will become displays and 5.1 million instrument the information delivery system.” panels in 2011. it makes complete the DS5 is JCi’s first full-colour HUD cockpits for Ford and Mercedes, and after a range of monochrome systems instrument clusters for most everyone on recent Peugeots, but before the else – and it views the future of display windscreen displays become ubiquitous, technology and the JCi believes there’s still considerable science of Human scope for improvement in traditional Machine interaction displays, particular with 3D. (HMi) as rich with “the multi-layering of 3D has possibility. potential to better provide information,” 37% the recently says tuzar. “We really haven’t exploited of fatal road crashes launched Citroën this yet and there is enormous potential in sPain in 2008 DS5 features an to create information systems that case study: were caused by driver instrument cluster greatly improve the distraction and a head-up situational awareness Practicing #2#2 lessons in display (HUD) from of the driver, safe text JCi. By using a HUD and putting key particularly when Modern research suggests information into the driver’s primary using active safety driver distraction plays a key road safety field of vision, JCi claims that data such as collision role in over half of all road is processed much faster than from warnings and blind 25% traffic accidents – and with the standard displays. “We talk about the spot detection. there of australians admitted growing ubiquity of MP3 if the world’s roads are to be made primary field of vision being a 12° arc in is a lot of room to to using a mobile players, SatNav devices and safe then the lessons of good practice front of the driver, that’s where we want make things better.” Phone while driving complicated in-vehicle infotainment options, the on the streets and behind the wheel 024 problem is growing. must be learned early, but are our 025 Particularly dangerous is the commonplace use of mobile children getting the right messages? phones behind the wheel. Talking on the phone while driving is incredibly dangerous, though worse is the practice of one are the days when road safety texting while driving, combining education was a grainy public as it does the need to take eyes information film featuring a faintly off the road and hands off the scruffy pop star or footballer wheel. The problem of texting imploring kids to look right and left while driving is particularly Gbefore crossing. these days the buzz words shout prevalent among young people. that using social media to deliver peer-to-peer The Canadian Automobile campaigns is the way forward. Association provided a graphic Whether it is pre-schoolers playing road safety demonstration of how driving games online with their parents, or teenagers deteriorates when distracted by downloading graffiti-covered leaflets to hand out to placing two drivers in a friends, the ways in which children learn about road simulator and having them text while driving. To demonstrate safety are being forced to move with the times. that it really doesn’t matter how Road accidents are the biggest killer of young high your level of driving skill is people worldwide and the statistics make for sober beforehand, the drivers they reading. Each year almost 1.3 million people die picked were F1’s Felipe Massa in road traffic crashes and more than 30 per cent and Michael Schumacher. of these are young people – that’s 1000 each day. “If you use a mobile phone, the need to educate children about road safety is whether texting or phoning, or imperative, but how does this happen? playing with it, you will increase As with any other aspect of a child’s education, your chance of an accident by learning about keeping safe in traffic starts at home. more than 23 times. That is an thanks to the internet, parents can access a range outrageous number,” said of educational tools – many provided by government seven-time F1 champion Schumacher after crashing in agencies and charities – in order to pass on basic the simulator. “Not only do you information such as ‘Stop, Look, Listen’ to their risk your own life, but more, or pre-school-age children. Early years educational even important is that you risk providers such as childminders and nursery staff other people’s lives.” also have a responsibility to teach road safety and →

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026 → can get involved in local and national But while casualty and death rates Road Safety Partnership, YoURS helped 027 schemes in their countries. are falling in the Western world, the organise a workshop for 20 young road the British charity Brake organises a downward trend is not being repeated safety trainers in Siem Reap. it analysed Beep Beep! Day for infants as well as the elsewhere in the world. national road safety statistics and Giant Walking Bus march for primary Floor Lieshout is director of YoURS – discussed why young people behave school children and a 2young2die Youth for Road Safety – an organisation as they do in traffic. Some successful campaign for secondary-school kids. set up in 2009 and born out of the 2007 examples of peer-education were case study: the latter offers training workshops, Un World Youth Assembly for Road examined, and the group also considered Protect and survive competitions and online resources Safety. it aims to make the world’s roads the best forms of youth communication. Child protection and education is a major such as videos to help teachers get the safe for young people aged 15-29. He says: this practice of targeting young cornerstone of FIA Action for Road Safety and message across. the key to Brake’s “While road traffic death rates in many people with the communication tools crosses all national boundaries. The European approach is to target information at high-income countries have stabilised they use has become key to the modern Traffic Education Contest saw children chosen different age groups rather than relying or declined, data suggests that in most approach to child safety. the tune in by clubs from across Europe congregate in on a one-size-fits-all attitude. regions of the world the global epidemic to traffic campaign in the UK uses Paris to contest a series of theoretical and practical exercises designed to promote road But it is not just parents and of traffic injuries is increasing. social media and the internet to deliver safety awareness and skills. FIA President educators who need to get involved. A “Without increased its message. its research Jean Todt was on hand to present awards. great example of how different parties efforts and new showed that 75 per cent Meanwhile, half a world away the Touring y can work together comes from Faro, initiatives, the World of young people admitted Automóvil Club del Perú, together with the Portugal, where a ‘Safe Road to School’ Health organisation to listening to music while Ministry of Education, has sponsored a safety scheme was started in seven schools in (WHo) expects the total crossing the road. it is education bus that will tour schools over the 2001 and rolled out across many others. number of road deaths 75% targeting the danger in a next decade. The bus features audio and video Statistics showed that only 20 per and injuries worldwide of young PeoPle in the uk way it hopes will appeal to systems designed to teach more than 35,000 cent of children used rear seatbelts on to rise by 65 per cent admitted to listening to youths. six to 12-year-olds how to obey traffic rules. their way to primary school in Faro. between 2000-2020 music through headPhones Lieshout concludes, In Australia, WRC star Mikko Hirvonen showed the Portuguese Association for Child and in low-income and while crossing the road however, that any efforts his support for FIA Action for Road Safety by Safety Promotion (APSi), local police, middle-income countries should be part of broader joining students at Coffs Harbour High School and others stakeholders designed an deaths by as much as 80 per cent. ninety programmes. “A country can take to talk about the importance of safe driving as initiative aimed at 6-16 year olds, which per cent of the world’s fatalities on many actions to keep children safe. part of the Confederation of Australian Motor included interactive workshops with the roads occur in low-middle income not only the government, but the entire Sport ‘Ignition’ programme, a pre-licence safety initiative aimed at educating youngsters primary school children, an evening countries, which have just 48 per cent country has a role: private sector, local prior to them getting behind the wheel. “It is information session for parents and of registered vehicles. Road safety is a and national authorities, schools, the important the drivers of tomorrow are taught spot-fines at the school gates. Use of global crisis and needs a global solution.” police. We are all in this together and the rules of the road and how to drive safely,” rear seatbelts increased to 89 per cent in november 2010, in conjunction an entire country should be taking the said Hirvonen. “There is no better time to instil following the programme. with Cambodia Red Cross and the Global responsibility on their shoulders.” that information than when they are this age.”

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n any straw poll of for road data in the developed our interviews we found the drivers asked to name world as a whole, it suggests a proportion of people that the human factors previously unrealised global said they had fallen asleep involved in a car pandemic of fatigue-related at the wheel in the past year icrash, intoxication and road deaths. decreases uniformly across speeding usually top the list. the higher figures are the board from the youngest Distractions such as mobile backed up by research into to the oldest. We don’t have phones, iPods, Satnavs and the prevalence of people answers as to why that passengers also feature driving while fatigued. would be, though some other heavily. Few people mention the AAA Foundation’s researchers have suggested sleep deprivation. 2010 traffic Safety Culture that it might be that young According to much of the index surveyed 2,000 people are less likely to allow data on the subject those are representative drivers, 41 their perception of being fair assumptions. Looking at per cent of whom admitted fatigued to stop them from fatalities, 2009 reports from to having fallen asleep for getting in a car in the first the US national Highway at least a couple of seconds place, or that they are less traffic Safety Administration while driving. Within that likely to act appropriately (nHtSA) showed 32 per cent figure, 3.9 per cent said they and pull over for a nap if they of vehicle fatalities involved had done so within the past become aware they’re getting an alcohol-impaired driver, month, 7.1 per cent within into difficulties.” and 31 per cent a speeding the past six months and 11 the automotive industry driver. 16 per cent involved per cent within the past year. is perhaps paying this a driver who was distracted. these figures are most likely issue more attention than that fatigue isn’t included in conservative, based as they road traffic authorities and these statistics suggests the are on drivers being willing fatigue detection systems inattention with which the to answer questions honestly are beginning to trickle subject is treated. but also on their awareness into passenger cars. Recent #3#3 tougher Based on an aggregation of having fallen asleep in the years have seen active safety of some older research the first place. measures such as this coming common perception is that this is one of the to the fore as crash avoidance between 2-3 per cent of fatal unnerving aspects of driver takes over from crash rules on the crashes in the US have fatigue fatigue: in instances of mitigation as the object of as a contributory factor, ‘microsleep’, drivers are not intense research. While better 028 however modern research necessarily aware that they airbags, crash-structures and 029 by the American Automobile have been asleep. tefft says: seat-belt pretensioners are cZech list Association Foundation for #4#4 this is your “A laboratory sleep study, out there, the incremental traffic Safety suggests this that i find in equal parts gains from improving mature with beginner drivers responsible figure woefully misrepresents fascinating and frightening, technologies such as these the magnitude of the wake-uP call concluded that, on average, become smaller every year. for 17 per cent of acidents in the problem. the AAA’s recent people had to be asleep for as Active systems that prevent czech republic, the autoklub research suggests fatigue is long as two to four minutes crashes are where the big ceské republiky is pressing for responsible for one in six road tired drivers are a danger to themselves before having any recollection improvements are going to deaths. that they had been sleeping. be made. a tougher highway code the reason for the and others – but quite how big a danger By the time people are having While there are some discrepancy is explained by is something that authorities are only microsleeps sophisticated AAA Foundation for traffic in the vehicle, devices that Safety Senior Research slowly waking up to. they’ll be aware recent observe the Associate Brian tefft. “When that they are research by the driver – ranging case study: we look just at the data tired and desire from facial Having good road safety laws is crucial – but so is ensuring that those laws are that the US Department of Prevalence and impact of when there was a fatality. the to go to sleep aaa suggests recognition properly understood and adhered to by the driving populace. That’s why the transportation compiles Drowsy Driving, presents disparity between this and but often they that fatigue is and eyelid Auto Club of the Czech Republic (Autoklub České Republiky) has rolled out a from fatal crashes, we see evidence that drowsy drivers the commonly quoted figures will be unaware droop detection comprehensive FIA Action for Road Safety programme designed to lobby for that drowsiness is a factor are more common on the is based upon the 45 per cent they spent a resPonsible for cameras to a more stringent highway code, while also improving driving training and in between 2 to 3 per cent roads than has previously of crashes, single occupant few seconds one in six road seat sensors awareness. In the Czech Republic, a cause of particular concern is the frequency of fatal crashes – but the been believed. through or otherwise, in which the actually that monitor of accidents involving inexperienced drivers. Beginner drivers are responsible problem with this is many statistical analysis of ten drivers’ level of attention is sleeping.” deaths breathing – the for 17 per cent of accidents, while motorcyclists with fewer than two years’ drowsy driver crashes years’ worth of crash data coded as ‘unknown’. Using there systems most experience account for more than a third of accidents involving bikes. With this are single vehicle, single it also estimates that 7 per the imputation method is a perception that older commonly coming to market is mind the Autoklub’s strategy involves initiatives it hopes will lead to changes occupant events. in the case cent of all crashes in which of statistical analysis, drivers are most at risk from look instead at driving in Czech law. It lists its five key tasks as: lobbying and preparing proposals of fatalities, when a police a passenger vehicle was researchers concluded that fatigue, though the data says behaviour. Volkswagen has a tasked to improve the quality of laws applied to road traffic; boosting the quality officer arrives minutes or towed from the scene had drowsiness was a contributing otherwise. “in our study fatigue detection system that of driving schools; making mandatory the completion of advanced driver hours after the event, the only fatigue as a contributory factor in many more cases we estimated drivers aged analyses the first 15 minutes courses for beginners; increasing cooperation with, and support for, driver- person involved is deceased. factor. that figure rises to than had been established by 16-24 were 75-80 per cent of a journey for the driver’s training organisations; improving the standard of driving school instructors. there’s almost no way to find 13.1 per cent when the crash empirical evidence alone. more likely than drivers aged characteristic steering and It has also launched a social/modern media campaign to raise awareness of out what happened.” resulted in someone being As the US, with its mix of 40 plus to be in a drowsy driving behaviour. Further road safety, particularly among young drivers and riders, using rally driver Jan tefft’s report, entitled admitted to hospital and urban, suburban and rural crash – which i found a little into the journey the system Kopecký, kart racer Lucie Panáčková and World Superbike rider Jakub Smrž. Asleep at the Wheel: the to 16.5 per cent of crashes population, is a good model surprising,” says tefft. “in continually evaluates →

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→ signals such as steering Volvo is currently collating accept guidelines on a ‘safe’ angle, use of pedals and A FEW data on a study that will shed intake of alcohol before transverse acceleration. if some light on how successful driving. Similar guidelines the monitored parameters STATISTICS its fatigue detection has been exist for fatigue – but aren’t indicate a deviation from the TO KEEP in preventing accidents. publicised to the same extent. initial behaviour it assumes Anecdotal evidence suggest it “one of the reasons public case study: concentration is waning and YOU AWAKE works very well, though Volvo education on this issue provides a warning tone and points out it isn’t going to is challenging is a lack of a matter a recommendation to take a AT NIGHT catch everything. awareness,” says tefft. “our of endurance break. the system has been “We won’t be able to survey showed that of people Fatigue has long been a cause of an option for several years but according to the aaa detect every single case of who have fallen asleep at the road accidents but until recently has recently become standard foundation’s 2010 traffi c a driver falling asleep, but wheel, less than 30 per cent one that has not been well on several new VW models. safety culture index our tests show that in almost started out believing they understood. The difficulty Volvo likewise has a fatigue every case we have been able might have difficulty staying attached to data gathering in this detection system, in this case to warn drivers at least two awake: 71 per cent said they field has meant the problem is using the same hardware 41% minutes before they actually felt fine when they set off.” under-represented and behind its lane departure fell asleep,” says Coelingh. the fatigue-equivalent therefore action to tackle the OF RESPONDENTS ADMITTED problem has been limited. warning. it analyses driving “So i think the performance of ‘no more than one small TO FALLING ASLEEP Recent research, however, performance and relays a WHILE DRIVING is very good – but i wouldn’t glass of wine’ is having not suggests fatigue causes as many message to the driver when call it perfect. theoretically less than six hours’ sleep crashes as inebriation and algorithms detect behaviour there is no one method of the previous night and not – perhaps surprisingly – is most it perceives to be indicative 3.9% measuring fatigue perfectly.” being awake for more than prevalent among the young. FIA of fatigue. Erik Coelingh, OF RESPONDENTS ADMITTED TO of course detecting driver 15 hours before setting off. member associations are Senior technical Leader HAVING DONE SO WITHIN fatigue should be the last line An older AAA study done lobbying governments hard to for Safety and Driving THE PAST YEAR of defence, not the first. As in conjunction with the have more attention paid to this Support technologies at with any affliction, properly University of north Carolina area, while FIA Action for Road Safety has teamed up with the Volvo explains: “When we diagnosing the problem is demonstrated that drivers ACO and some of the world’s are alert, our focus as a 26.1% the first step to treatment. with less than six hours greatest stars of endurance driver is quite far out from OF THOSE WHO SAID THEY FELL the AAA Foundation study sleep the previous night racing to promote the idea of the vehicle. We plan our ASLEEP DID SO BETWEEN THE demonstrates that the were significantly more only driving when safe to do so. steering movements along HOURS OF NOON AND 5PM scope of the likely to have “My local area around Dumfries a long prediction horizon, …THAT’S A GREATER NUMBER problem has the fatigue a drowsiness- in the South looking maybe 50-60 metres THAN THOSE WHO SAID THEY been woefully related crash of Scotland has some beautiful 030 ahead of the vehicle and FELL ASLEEP BETWEEN underestimated eQuivalent of than those who roads, but also too many road case study: 031 steering in curves based on MIDNIGHT AND 6AM (24.7 %) and as a result ‘no more than a had slept for accidents especially involving that prediction. Conversely, the issue has eight hours or young people,” says Allan #5#5 bosnia While seatbelt and child-restraint laws when we’re becoming tired MEN (52.2 %) ARE MORE LIKELY never been glass of wine’ is longer. McNish, who as a two-time Le are very nearly universal, adherence and beginning to fall asleep, TO ADMIT TO HAVING FALLEN publicised with other forms Mans winner and double ALMS to the law varies wildly from country ASLEEP THAN WOMEN (30.1 %) no less than six champion knows all about being we have difficulty focusing at the ardour of dangerous behind the wheel for long to country. the Bosnian auto club long distance and our focus directed hours’ sleeP driving are learns to BiHAMK has pledged itself to the FiA periods. “As a racing driver who moves closer and closer 56% towards speed, before driving countered with knows the enjoyment of both Action for Road Safety campaign with to the vehicle. We start to alcohol and a combination of driving and racing, but who also a programme intended to tackle the introduce many more steering OF DRIVERS SAID THEIR LAST mobile phones. public education knows the risks that are always country’s indifference in this matter. in INSTANCE OF FALLING ASLEEP AT belt uP corrections. it’s this behaviour Better education is the key and the heavy hand of the present, I think FIA Action for cooperating with transport police and we are able to capture.” THE WHEEL OCCURRED ON A to reducing fatigue-related law. Fatigue suffers as an Road Safety is very important in the Ministry of Communication and the Volvo alert is a MULTI-LANE DIVIDED HIGHWAY crashes. issue because, unlike, drink, the education and training of with, at worst, only 20 per traffic it has launched the ‘Buckle-up – warning chime, with the 58.8% OF THOSE WHO FELL At first glance the issue drugs or speed it’s almost drivers to reduce road Seatbelt Saves Life’ promotion, aimed at fatalities.” cent of bosnians using seat symbol of a coffee cup ASLEEP REPORTED HAVING DONE seems fairly basic: driving impossible to prove beyond drivers who choose to drive without seat displayed on the instrument SO WITHIN AN HOUR OF SETTING while tired is obviously a legally-acceptable level belts, local auto club bihamk restraints. panel. it follows an unwritten OFF ON THEIR JOURNEY dangerous – but it isn’t of doubt that a person was has teamed up with the Research undertaken by the World industry principle that the ONLY 20.6% HAD BEEN DRIVING necessarily something that’s too tired to drive safely. police and its government to Bank suggests that only 20-30 per cent vehicle should warn the FOR THREE HOURS OR LONGER understood well enough to Correspondingly, unlike those of Bosnian drivers, 10-20 per cent of driver but not go further. “the prevent people attempting other issues, driving tired is get the nation to ‘buckle up’ front seat passengers and less than 10 system has proven itself to to drive at times when they not yet greeted with the same per cent of rear seat passengers use a work well but there’s always 27.7% perhaps shouldn’t. it’s the level of social vilification. seatbelt or child seat. the main goal of a risk it will overreact and OF THOSE WHO FELL ASLEEP difference between an Changing social attitudes the campaign, therefore, will be to raise falsely detect a tired driver,” SAID THEY REALISED STAYING objective understanding will perhaps be the greatest awareness of the critical importance of says Coelingh. “there has to AWAKE MIGHT BE A PROBLEM of dangerous behaviour challenge authorities face using restraints, with the initial aim of be a balance between warning WHEN THEY SET OFF and the application of that with the issue. improving compliance to at least 50 per when it’s needed and not 26.6% OF THOSE INTERVIEWED understanding subjectively. to get yourself in the right cent across the board. disturbing the driver during ADMITTED TO HAVING DRIVEN For example the dangers frame of mind, consider this: Getting the message across will normal driving conditions. DURING THE LAST MONTH WHILE of driving while drunk are the next time you’re driving involve an intensive media campaign that affects the way we design ‘SO SLEEPY THEY HAD A HARD widely understood but many on a highway in the evening taking place in all major Bosnian cities, the system. We could stop TIME KEEPING THEIR EYES OPEN’ people meeting the medical or early in the morning, including video spots and radio jingles, the vehicle, we could limit definition of intoxication there’s a reasonable chance the distribution of CDs containing its speed but we don’t think 2.4% ADMITTED TO DOING THIS wouldn’t consider themselves not all of the drivers around seatbelt videos and the production of that’s appropriate.” REGULARLY to be so. However, they can you are fully conscious. hard-hitting educational brochures.

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case study: racing to save young lives While any road death is a tragedy, perhaps the greater tragedy is the over-representation of children and young adults in the statistics. Young people are the group most at risk and concurrently the least #6 fast likely to heed road safety advice from sources perceived to be authoritarian. That’s where the campaigning ability of so many track stars of international motor sport has been vital. Everywhere, from F1 – where the biggest names in the sport pledged their support to to safety FIA Action for Road Safety – to WRC, Endurance and WTCC World, racing heroes have joined you’d think the last thing a formula one their voices to the FIA’s. By virtue champion needs is education on the of their visible achievements, the message gets across and lives are perils of speeding. not so, says damon saved. hill, who believes everyone should take Reigning WTCC Champion Yvan Muller sums it up best: “When a speed awareness or advanced driving road users think of racing drivers they always think of speed and course once in their life on the roads madness but that’s completely wrong. On the contrary, our 032 here are few better qualified detention. Hill’s reaction was similar but it experience may be used to pass people to talk about speed soon turned into something else. on very important messages about the necessity of evaluating than Damon Hill. the 1996 “it was curiosity,” he says. “i thought, well potentially dangerous situations; Formula one world champion at least they are trying to get me to change. road safety, braking distances, took 22 grand prix wins, 42 it’s all too easy to just take the pain (of a sobriety at the wheel and so on.” podium finishes and 20 pole positions in sanction) and carry on as before.” t Eight times Le Mans winner Tom eight seasons in the sport. Since retiring once the course is accepted in Kristensen adds : “I support the in 1999 has acted as President of the preference to points, the offender must FIA Action for Road Safety British Racing Drivers’ Club as well as attend a half-day series of lectures campaign. We all know it is all forging a career as a businessman and designed to raise the driver’s awareness about being alert, clever and media pundit. in short there’s not a lot of speed as a cause of problems while at focused behind the steering wheel he doesn’t know about driving fast – and the wheel and to refresh the offender’s on the roads, and this campaign that includes breaking the law and being appreciation for the rules of the road. will surely improve awareness.” punished for it. So what did Damon learn from the Eight times WRC Champion “Yes, i was caught,” he smiles. “it experience? Sébastien Loeb has proved a was a camera going into a village. i was “it was amazing,” he admits. “the tireless campaigner for road safety, particular with his work to slowing down, but just not fast enough! people who do the course are very make people recognise the i was given the option of points on my persuasive. i went with an open mind, but dangers of riding motorcycles licence or going for what’s called a Speed even so, they showed that we all have an without helmets. He said: “Road Awareness course. i thought, well, lets immunity to reason when it suits us! no crashes kill on the same scale as see what they have to say?” matter how we tried, they showed that the malaria – it is important to have Speed Awareness courses operate in facts cannot be denied. the greater the long term action at the highest the UK and are used as an alternative speed, the greater the risk to life.” level in order to make roads safe.” to prosecution for drivers who have Did it make him change his own habits? → Summing up the support F1 has broken the speed limits by relatively given FIA Action for Road Safety, small margins, the reasoning being that Rubens Barrichello said: “By education about the offence is preferable raising awareness of the dangers to doling out a slap on the wrist, a fine or that exist on the road, improving driver education and providing penalty points on the offender’s licence. better training, we can reduce the Many drivers have been forced to go frequency of accidents, the on such courses and the first reaction tragedy of which is compounded is normally one of annoyance at being by the disproportionate number dragged back to the ‘classroom’ like of children and young adults a naughty schoolchild being sent to involved in them.”

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→ “initially, i totally forgot everything that they had tried to teach us,” he laughs. “then, five minutes into driving home, i thought, oK let’s give it a go, by which i mean driving at the speed limit! it was very painful at first. case study: it was a changing the habit of a lifetime. For years i had driven at whatever bringing accident speed i felt comfortable at, which, for Prevention out of an F1 driver, is unfeasibly swift. “Yes, i could and have been driving the shadows in my own sweet way ever since i Sarah, fast 17 Jahre A particularly hard-hitting passed my test, but i have had near Ich hatte die Gefahr im Nacken initiative is being run by Austria’s Sarah war im zweiten Lehrjahr. Im Fri-Fri- ÖAMTC club. Named ‘Schatten’ misses and the odd impact,” he adds. seursalon, in dem sie arbeitete, war sie bei den Kolleginnen, beim Chef und bei (Shadows), the campaign places “there is no doubt that i would not allen Kunden/innen sehr beliebt, vor lifesize wooden silhouettes of allem wegen ihres herzlichen und huhu-- have had those events if i had been morvollen Wesens. Auch für ihre Eltern, young people on display in driving slower. But the real clincher for Geschwister und Freunde war sie imim-- mer da. Sie hatte bereits Geld angespart für den FührerFührer-- schools throughout Austria. me was that i suddenly realised that schein, den sie bald machen wollte. These shadows have been Oft traf sie sich mit ihren Freundinnen und am WochenWochen-- ‘they’ were on my side! it dawned on ende ging sie gerne auf Partys, Bälle und Konzerte. Sie individually designed to each me that i would be protected by law freute sich schon auf ihren 17. Geburtstag, in genau eiei-- represent a young person killed nem Monat, drei Tage vor Weihnachten. on Austria’s roads. Along with the if had an accident and i was driving Am Freitag, den 21.11.2008, war sie mit Freunden aus- within the speed limit (provided i gegangen und sie wollten noch weiter zu einer Geburts- cutout, the display carries a tagsfeier. Sie stieg mit ihrer Freundin Melanie in das description of the person, a wasn’t doing something else wrong).” Auto von zwei bekannten Burschen, die gerade erst den Führerschein gemacht hatten. Es war die erste Nacht, photograph and the So, did the course make Damon in der es auf dieser Straße etwas eisig war. Der Fahrer hatte nichts getrunken und er fuhr vorsichtig, nur mit circumstances of their death. It think differently about how we learn ca. 50 km/h. Die neue Musikanlage im Auto hatte einen tollen Sound. In einer starken Linkskurve kam der Lenker aims to raise awareness of traffic safe driving and whether those ins Schleudern und sah noch die Lichter des entgegen- kommenden Autos. Ein Knall, danach wurde es plötz- accidents and the consequences messages need to be reinforced on a lich dunkel und es herrschte Totenstille. Leider hatte der of speeding. Fahrzeughalter die rückwärtigen Kopfstützen abmontiert more regular basis? und auch die schwere Bassbox (Subwoofer) im Koffer- Meanwhile, in the world of raum nicht angeschraubt. Die Box wurde nach vorne ge- “Yes it did,” he says emphatically. schleudert und sie war viel stärker gebaut als das Genick rallying, young drivers von Sarah und ihrer Freundin Melanie. Sie hatten nicht “i have an unusual advantage in that i den Funken einer Chance und jede Hilfe kam zu spät. used the recent Rally GB can appreciate the energy involved in Die anderen Fahrzeuginsassen blieben unverletzt. event in Wales to team an accident and what it feels like to be up with the Royal out of control. i think most drivers have Society for the 034 no concept of how it feels to be in a car Prevention of hat is drugged driving? driving. this is false, as research such as 035 Accidents (RoSPA) that won’t stop as quickly as you want. For the majority, it this study is increasingly proving.” to raise awareness these events just do not happen often starts and ends at the #7 Statistics show worrying levels of of the dangers of enough for drivers to get to grips with reckless driving on the roads. warnings on packets drivers who admit to driving whilst the situation... until it is too late. For of legal prescription under the influence of narcotics. Up and coming rally star Craig racing drivers it happens every corner! Breen is an ambassador for Wmedication not to use heavy machinery. the drugs British road safety charity Brake “So, what to do? the speed Motorsport Ireland’s road safety But for a dangerous minority, it is said its research from 2011 suggested awareness course demonstrated the activities and also supports the driving after using illegal narcotics, in more than 11 per cent of young people science and the statistical proofs of ‘Keep the Race in its Place’ the knowledge that their driving may be admitted taking to the wheel after having an accident. i think most people who campaign. “I love driving. In or out impaired. don’t work consumed illegal drugs. attended were impressed enough to of competition, I love it, but I also Research published in the British in America, the 2009 national Survey change the way they drove.” recognise that there’s a time and a Medical Journal (BMJ) last month showed on Drug Use and Health (nSDUH), the new awareness led Hill to carry place for everything and it’s more that drivers who used cannabis up to the idea that drinking and reported an estimated 10.5 million than possible to have fun and on with road safety work and he has three hours before taking to the road people aged 12 or older who had driven drive safely,” he says. “When I get driving do not mix is fi xed in been active on a number of fronts. out on the stages in a rally car it’s were almost twice as likely to cause a the minds of road users, but under the influence of illicit drugs during “i supported a similar campaign full attack, but equally I would collision as those not under the influence the year prior to being surveyed. called ‘Safe Drive Stay Alive’, which never dream of letting that cross of drugs or alcohol. Researchers at is a new scourge of drugged the affects of drugs on a person can is based in Surrey in the UK. it’s a over to my driving off the stages. Canada’s Dalhousie University reviewed be numerous, from slower reaction times campaign aimed at new teenage “Road safety measures are put in nine studies of 50,000 people involved driving going unrecognised? to erratic and aggressive behaviour and licence holders. it is very shocking and place to protect us and the risks in serious or fatal road accidents around an inability to concentrate. Users may leaves nothing to the imagination with we put ourselves at when we don’t the world and concluded that the use also suffer from nausea, hallucinations, regard to the real effects of road traffic respect them are terrifying,” he of cannabis impairs brain and motor ian Jack, spokesperson for the paranoia, panic attacks, tremors, accidents. the idea is that the ‘flash adds. “The FIA Action for Road functions. Canadian Automobile Association (CAA), dizziness and fatigue – making them bulb’ experience will remain with the Safety campaign reminds us that “this is the first review looking at says the research is major step in raising a serious danger to themselves, their drivers, whom it is hoped will never when we take risks on open public observational studies concerned with public awareness of drugged driving. passengers and other road users. roads we endanger ourselves and take unacceptable risks on the road. the risk of vehicle collision after the “Driving under the influence of drugs An erratic driver stopped by the everyone else.” So should such driving courses be recent consumption of cannabis,” said Dr is an issue that is really coming to the police may show tell-tale signs of drug compulsory every 5-10 years? Mark Asbridge, an associate professor in fore in Canada and elsewhere,” he says. use – such as dilated pupils – and be “i would recommend a courses like Dalhousie Medical School’s Department “Research like this gives road safety subject to further tests. Depending upon this at least once in driver’s lifetime,” of Community Health & Epidemiology. advocates the ammunition they need to the country, this can range from a ‘field he concludes. “Perhaps 10 years is “this research clearly shows that recent engage the public about the seriousness impairment assessment’ (including tests sufficient to remind us old folk, but cannabis consumption impairs the skills of the issue. it’s been received wisdom such as walking the line) to roadside young people could probably benefit required for safe driving and increases among a certain set that doing drugs and screening with a ‘drugalyser’, which will from a five-year refresher.” collision risk.” driving isn’t as harmful as drinking and show if the person is doped. →

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→ in addition to 10.5 driver, rider or supervising CASE STUDY: identifying and punishing million PeoPle aged 12 licence holder for three or older estimated to One of the simplest but most drugged drivers, police kinds of drugs: delta-9- effective ways FIA Action and health agencies are have driven while tetrahydrocannabinol drugged in the usa for Road Safety can save also campaigning to warn (tHC), the active lives is through raising case study: the public of the dangers. component of cannabis; awareness of the number of Such public information messages methylamphetamine, also known as deaths that can be avoided if a different view have been highly successful in raising speed, ice, crystal meth, or base; and motorcyclists wear helmets. on drink driving awareness of the dangers of drink methylenedioxymethylamphetamine Helmet manufacturer driving, but the issue of drug driving has (MDMA), also known as ecstasy. While sobriety behind the wheel Schuberth has joined yet to receive the same level of attention. “Given this is new technology there has been a subject to which the FIA’s campaign. It authorities all around the world “As with other issues such as is a need to review its effectiveness,” has donated a number of have paid great attention over the texting or drinking while driving, CAA says McKellar. “Roadside drug testing helmets styled with the past 30 years, drunk and drugged believes enforcement and education is much more time consuming for Action for Road Safety driving still causes a shockingly go hand in hand,” says Jack. “A really motorists than a test for drink-driving, logo for use by member high percentage of road fatalities important advance in this regard when with drivers delayed by the roadside for clubs to promote it while – frequently because drivers, it comes to drugs is the development of several minutes while they await the also actively participating while aware of the law, do not measurement devices police can use to results. improving the technology so that in the education process. believe they are incapacitated. establish whether someone is under the the testing is quicker and less expensive The Slovakian Automobile Club is It also donated a number influence. these devices will allow for will provide the right balance between seeking to better educate of golden replica helmets youngsters on the need for the first time for robust enforcement improving road safety and not hindering copied from the design worn sobriety behind the wheel through approaches to complement and reinforce motorists getting about their day.” by Michael Schumacher the use of ‘drunk buster’ goggles public education messages.” For those countries yet to crack at the 2011 Belgian Grand that replicate inebriation. The Countries including France, Germany down on drugged driving, the issue is Prix. Schumacher, an FIA goggles demonstrate how difficult and Australia run a zero-tolerance becoming an increasingly hot topic. in safety ambassador and long- it is to walk in a straight line when approach to drugged driving, with the UK, a drugged driver can only be time Schuberth customer drunk, simulating the impairment saliva tests that can be carried out at the prosecuted if drugs are proven to have wore the special golden to vision and equilibrium. Local roadside to detect narcotics. Heavy fines impaired their driving – a difficult task, broadcasts of the demonstrations helmet to promote Action and the loss of licence which currently means that conviction and other special events are for Road Safety on the 20th helping to reach an even wider are among the penalties rates are low. With roadside testing kits anniversary of his F1 debut. audience. for driving under the not in use, it is often several hours an Schuberth and the FIA are influence of drugs in accident that a driver may be tested and Drunk busters have also been also collaborating to share used by ACAFA, the French those countries that in some cases this could be too late to theoretical knowledge and 036 Automobile and Touring Club who 11% have taken a hard line identify the use of illegal narcotics. practical research in the 037 set up a ‘Village of Responsible of young PeoPle in the on the issue. Whatever the difficulties the highly specialised field of Mobility’ in Alsace during the uk admit to driving the Australian state governments faces in strengthening protective headgear design. running of the French round of the after taking narcotics of Victoria was the first penalties against drug driving, they Helmet safety is a WRC last year. Working in to introduce roadside are under increasing pressure to act. particularly relevant in the cooperation with La Fédération drug testing, in late 2004. it followed a “We would say that drugged driving developing world. The FIA Française du Sport Automobile report on the toxicology of drivers fatally is a huge problem,” says the RAC’s Region I Legal & Consumer (FFSA), ACAFA set up the village injured on Australian roads, which spokesman John Franklin. “the statistics with the aim of boosting awareness Affairs Commission recently of issues such as road safety, eco- showed that in Victoria in 2003, 31 per for 2010 in the UK showed drugs were presented the Nicaraguan driving, new mobility trends and cent of drivers who died in crashes tested a contributory factor in 1094 accidents Automobile Club with its new green technologies. positive to drugs other than alcohol. and 51 of those were fatalities, so it’s Legal and Consumer Affair In order to get the message testing has been taken up by several certainly an issue. the problem is being award for 2011 after the club across, ACAFA made available other Australian states, and current able to convict people because the police successfully campaigned for driving simulators, drunk goggles figures state drug driving have to prove it has had an its government to introduce and a range of other games for is the main cause in 7 per impact on their driving. strict laws governing the spectators to test. cent of deaths annually Also we still do not have wearing of helmets. across the country. roadside drugs testing as in Working under the Andrew McKellar, France, Australia and other framework of the Global executive director of the 31% countries.” Helmet Vaccine Initiative Australian Automobile of drivers who died in Franklin adds that there (GHVI) and with the Association, says: “the road traffic accidents in is a long way to go until National Police, the the australian state of #8 PROMOTING AAA and its member awareness of drugged club engaged with local clubs support a broad victoria in 2003 tested driving matches that for government, NGOs and range of measures that Positive for drugs other drink driving. private sector partners to lead to improved road than alcohol “there has been a THE BIG COVER UP promote higher helmet safety outcomes, including campaign against drink standards. This included the roadside drug testing. Australia has driving for the past 30 years and it distribution of 1000 helmets embraced the Decade of Action for Road is clear that if you do it you will get Studies have shown that motorcyle riders to the local police force to Safety and the AAA will continue to caught,” he says. “i think drivers without helmets are 42 per cent more serve as an example to the engage with governments, police and probably do not feel they will get caught public. Before the campaign road authorities in order to see positive drug driving. But people are astute and likely to die if involved in an accident, yet just one in ten motorcyclists safety outcomes for all road users.” i’m sure they realise that if they take the problem is endemic. The FIA and its wore helmets, but the club in the Australian states implementing drugs it’s likely to have an impact on now believes that almost roadside testing, police can test any their driving.” members are helping to stop the killing every rider wears a helmet.

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yres are a vital element in the into account and designed tyres based new tyres at the rear of the vehicle. arsenal of safety equipment on that research.” “You want the best grip at the rear,” on any automobile and while Choosing the right product is not he explains. “This avoids over-steering, advance warning systems and the only important factor. It is vital to which is much more dramatic than a host of other technologies maintain the tyres throughout their under-steering in terms of safety.” willT help drivers to anticipate heavy working lifetime. How often should tyres be changed? braking incidents, there’s no substitute “Tyre pressure is the big thing,” says “Some manufacturers are for grip when a skid does arrive. Couasnon. “Unfortunately all the studies recommending changing the tyres It’s a message Pascal Couasnon, show that more than 60 per cent of the before the legal limits,“ he explains. Michelin’s Director of Technical and tyres on the roads are under-inflated, “They say that the tyres should be Scientific Communication is more than and that leads to bad things. It decreases changed when there is 3mm of tread keen to stress. A chemical engineer, stability, especially in emergency left. Each tyre has a wear bar. The who began his career at Michelin as manoeuvres; it decreases the ability to legal limit for tread depth is 1.6mm and a test driver and research engineer restrict aquaplaning, it affects longevity recommend sticking to that. at the company’s Ladoux circuit near and fuel economy. “As I mentioned, our surveys show Clermont-Ferrand in France 25 years “As an illustration, think about that most accidents are in the dry. ago, he knows rubber better than most the tyres on a bicycle. When they are What we want people to focus on is and is sure that good tyre maintenance under-inflated it is much more difficult respecting the legal limits and one is a key factor in saving lives. And he #9 STAY ON to pedal than when the tyre is properly should be careful when inspecting #10 KEEP reckons that drivers need to do their blown up. It takes more them because tyres do not homework before investing in a new set. energy to move the necessarily wear evenly. “The first thing one needs to do when bicycle. It is the same thing One should look at the one looks at safety in relation to tyres THESE ROADS with a car. More energy wear bars on both sides YOUR COOL is to remind people that the tyre is the means that a driver has to of the tyre. Very often unique point of contact between the Cracked, worn and perishing, they’re often use more fuel, but it also 70% people check only the There’s one more step to vehicle and the ground,” he says. “Each means that the tyres are OF ROAD ACCIDENTS outside but you may have tyre has a contact patch with the road the fi rst thing to be neglected on a car but, not being used as they are MONITORED IN DRESDEN more wear on the inside take on the road to safety that is about the same size as your hand. says Michelin man Pascal Couasnon, if you designed to be used. We OCCURRED ON DRY ROADS of the tyres, depending and that’s to step back from So everything is dependent on an area recommend that you check AND WITHIN THE SPEED on the geometry of the that is just four times the size of a human look after them they will look after you the tyre pressures once a LIMITS OF THE CITY suspension. confrontation on the road hand. That is where the action is!” month and try to do that “If you are not using the So one of the most important things when the tyres are cold because hotter car very much we recommend that you in terms of road safety is making the them later. and cold rain, as well as snow and ice. tyres will have higher pressures because change the tyres after about 10 years. Everyone has done it. An inconsiderate 038 right choices when buying tyres? “As an example, these days we They give the driver much more grip and the air inside expands, so if it is warm It could be nine or 12 years depending driver cuts in front of you on a motorway 039 “When you are looking at tyres as a recommend that people use different control in the cold. They are also safer you need to decrease the reading by 0.2 on how you have stored and used the and then brakes hard, forcing you to take consumer and you are considering the tyres at different times of year. If you than a standard tyre in dry conditions at bars in order to have the tyres at the car, but it is best to change at 10 years. evasive action. Your response is to pull various elements that are important – think about it, it’s obvious. When you lower temperatures, because the tread right pressures, allowing for the heat.” In any case, that allows you to catch up out, speed up and cut back in, giving such as safety, performance, economy go out running you need to have the compound heats up at lower rolling When it comes to buying tyres with the latest technology. Things are the offender a taste of his or her own and, perhaps, the environmental right shoes for the conditions, and so we temperatures and thus offers better grip Couasnon says that, if a customer is changing all the time. We are learning medicine. But is that justice or jeopardy? impact – it is vital that you look at change our shoes accordingly. It is best in the circumstances.” working to a budget and wants to buy new ways to solve problems and so The answer is, of course, the latter and the differences between tyres from to have summer tyres in the summer Inclement weather is most people’s only two tyres at a time, it is best to have having new tyres is never a bad idea.” road rage is an increasing cause of danger the standpoint of technology and and winter tyres in the winter. reason for changing tyres, believing on roads across the world. innovation,” he says. “We “These days, thanks that worn tyres and rain are a recipe for A survey conducted in the UK in 2008 realise it is very difficult to improvements in disaster, and while it’s true, Pascal says CASE STUDY: PREPARING FOR revealed that 65 per cent of respondents for people to choose technology, winter tyres good tyre management is just as much admitted to using threatening behaviour between different tyres, are as good as summer about dangers in the dry as in the wet. ROAD AND TRACK towards other road users and that a because they all basically ones. They do not wear out “A lot of people think that tyre safety The Confederation of Australian Motor Sport staggering 77 per cent of those polled the same – black and quickly as they used to do. is just about braking in wet conditions,” (CAMS) and the Royal Automobile Club of felt that this kind of behaviour was round. The tread patterns 60% This is because they have Couasnon says. “But that is not the Queensland (RACQ), together with V8 acceptable. Another survey suggested OF THE TYRES USED ON THE Supercars Australia, joined forces to highlight may not be quite the same, ROADS ARE UNDER-INFLATED been designed to operate case at all. We have done some very that a third of fatal accidents in the UK but that does not tell you at lower temperatures and interesting work in partnership with the importance of good vehicle preparation had road rage as a cause. very much. so they are more efficient VUFO, the traffic accident research through a Facebook game. The problem is no less severe in The game, called V8 Supercars Heroes “But the fact is that there are huge in such conditions than summer tyres department at the University of Dresden other countries. In the US a poll of law Challenge, promotes road safety by raising differences between the tyres that are would be. When you change tyres in Germany. This included a survey awareness of the checks that a V8 team enforcement departments showed that available, particularly when you look between the seasons you have to make of the data from nearly 20,000 road performs before a track session– checks that 39 per cent felt road rage had become a at different constructions and tyre a bigger investment, but at the same accidents that have occurred in the are equally useful for a road car. serious problem in their jurisdiction. compounds. So we recommend that time you are not wearing out one set of Dresden region in the course of the last Meanwhile, together with FIA Action for Road So, how to avoid episodes of road rage? people think about the investment they tyres at the same rate, you are wearing 13 years. The analysis of these statistics Safety partner Michelin, the Mini WRC team Well, a further poll showed that four are making, based on what the tyres are out two sets but each of them is being revealed some very surprising results, had drivers Dani Sordo and Kris Meeke take types of driving behaviour were most designed to do, rather than just going for used more slowly and so, inevitably, that notably that around 70 percent of road part in an awareness drive to make sure likely to induce aggressive behaviour in the cheapest tyres on offer. is better for the longevity – and for the accidents occur not only on dry road people regularly check their tyre pressure. other road used: using a mobile phone Former professional race engineer Meeke “In reality, when you sit down and safety. It is also better in terms of driving surfaces, but also within the speed limits while driving; tailgating, speeding and said: “Tyre pressures are important for us work it all out, you may well find that pleasure and cost-effectiveness. of the city. They also revealed that only because if they are wrong the car reacts very cutting up other drivers. If those can be you will get better value for money if “Winter tyres are not the same as a quarter of the road accidents occur differently. Obviously this translates to the avoided then road rage would cease to be you invest more and buy the right tyres snow tyres. They are not studded, when cars are cornering on wet roads, public roads. In rallying we are on closed a major problem. Ultimately, the answer at the start, rather than buying cheaper but they have a tread pattern that is although these do tend to be the most roads, but on the public roads if a car reacts is simple, slow down, take a deep breath products and then having to replace deliberately designed to cope with slush serious crashes. So Michelin took that badly then it is a serious road safety concern.” and enjoy the ride, in safety.

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Enduring Passion The FIA World Endurance Championship has pulled together the classic long distance races under one banner and the blend of technical test bed and true world championship is proving irresistible to the globe’s biggest motor manufacturers, Toyota included

040 indepth indepth It used to be that racIng serIes demanded a certaIn level of orthodoxy from Its entrants that is no longer the case. this month the newly constituted FiA World Endurance Championship gets under way featuring gasoline V8s and diesel V6s. it has both petrol and diesel hybrids. it has flywheels and supercapacitors. in the past this would have been Formula Libre, for the moment it’s just LmP1 – and arguably this 042 could be the most fascinating 043 sportscar racing season for a great many years. one reason is the return of toyota. When the Japanese marque pulled out of F1 at the end of 2009 the decision didn’t raise too many eyebrows. Eight seasons and an eye-watering investment in resources both financial and human had failed to replicate the successes the manufacturer enjoyed in WRC during the 1990s. Faced with an economic downturn, a bare trophy cabinet and lacking a nemesis with which to do battle, toyota’s withdrawal was almost inevitable. more surprising was toyota motorsport GmbH (tmG) being retained as a going concern despite the lack of a works programme, the operation instead being turned into a hired gun for high performance testing and development. r

With world-class facilities and a LE t core of highly experienced staff, toyota’s return to the top table of S BU Ma motor sport was always a when, tho toyota’s tS030 being not an if. the enticement of the put through its paces resurrected FiA World Endurance by alex Wurz at paul Championship determined that ricard in January.

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“ toyota has hybrId technologIes that we would lIke to test under extreme cIrcumstances” Rob Leupen, tmG’s Director of Business operations is very clear that the primary reason for toyota to emerge from hibernation was the hybrid regulations now codified for LmP1. they make the World Endurance Championship a very attractive proposition for a manufacturer whose commitment to alternative energy technology is unequalled. “to put it very simply, toyota has hybrid technologies that we would like to test under extreme circumstances,” he says. “these are also technologies that we would like to display to the public and so, after two years out of professional motor racing, the WEC is a very good opportunity for us to come back. the nature of endurance racing, the high level of competition and the excitement 044 of the events make is a good fit for 045 what we want to showcase.” Keeping faith with the tS010 and tS020 (Gt-one) of the 1990s, toyota named their new car tS030. it broke cover in January, testing at Paul Ricard and features a 3.4l 90° normally-aspirated V8. toyota have announced that their electrical storage solution of choice is a supercapacitor, though at the time of writing the team is still coy on the issue of whether the tHS-R (toyota Hybrid System – Racing) powertrain will use recovered energy on the front or rear axle. it has tested both and will make a final decision on specification during the c.40,000km of testing in plans to conduct before making its WEC debut at the Six Hours of Spa- Francorchamps in may. over the past few years technology transfer has become a hot item for racing teams keen r

to justify their social credentials LE t against a backdrop of industrial austerity. in many instances the S BU Ma capacity of motor sport to offer technology transfer in areas tho such as batteries and energy anything of value to the outside recovery will be key to world appears superficial, though toyota’s involvement, says endurance racing has always had tMg’s rob Leupen.

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The team The withdrawal of Peugeot makes because right down to basic Technologies come through our the Audi R18s strong favourites for concepts these are different ideas race department and then are to beat the inaugural WEC title but Audi’s competing against each other. passed on to our customers. First The arrival of a world decision to have a mixed entry of “It’s good that the LMP rules have we had the direct injection petrol championship for endurance conventional diesel and diesel- been written to allow us this engine, which very successfully racing is a matter of great hybrid cars (including two of each degree of freedom and, in my transferred to the road, then the satisfaction for Audi’s head of for Le Mans) will spice things up. opinion, it’s why manufacturers first diesel going into the motor sport Dr Wolfgang Ullrich Not only will the new hybrids be are coming into this category. endurance racing which is now (pictured). “For me this is brilliant. racing head-to-head with the There is so much possibility to showing benefits for customers. I think endurance racing has the Toyota hybrids but also against push future-oriented technologies “Now we have the first diesel- value to become an official world their conventional TDI cousins. and make them work in a very hybrid car in endurance racing. championship. Personally, since Minimum weight limits are the harsh, very competitive This again will be something we 2000, I’ve always been pushing for same for hybrid and non-hybrid environment. I think it’s the best do that a little bit further down there to be a worldwide alike, requiring hybrid designers invitation to a manufacturer that the line will be valuable to our championship for prototypes in to do some serious thinking to get wants to prove it’s ready to go with road car customers.” combination with GT cars. their motor generator units and advanced technology and develop When Audi launched the R18 at “Endurance, I think, has great storage into a car that still hits the stuff that can be used on the road. the beginning of last year, history. It creates great motor minimum. The hybrids will also “It’s what we’ve been doing since observers noted it seemed to racing, it’s something very have to run with two fewer litres of we started racing at Le Mans. have been built with hybridisation special, and, for a manufacturer fuel – just to make it interesting. in mind. The company agreed that like Audi, which tries to use motor With Toyota favouring a gasoline- the day might come when the R18 sport to support new hybrid with supercapacitor evolved into a hybrid racer. technologies, endurance racing is storage and Audi using a diesel- “We weren’t ready,” says Ullrich. the best place to go. It’s a place hybrid with a flywheel, it promises “We said we would go with the where we can prove our ideas and to be a battle not just between most efficient concept and last demonstrate that they bring a famous racing marques but also year the diesel was still the better clear advantage to performance between vastly different option. But with another year of or emissions or consumption, and alternative fuel philosophies. development on the hybrid and a in parallel demonstrate their The differences, says Ullrich, are lot of testing we expect it to be as reliability. For a manufacturer like fascinating. “It’s something very efficient and reliable as it needs Audi it’s a key factor.” positive and very interesting, to be to go for overall victory.”

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→claims. toyota are very keen to to witness drivers battling to “in motor sport we’ve really continue the line of innovative become a true world champion. got into the discussion about endurance racers with crossover the opportunity isn’t lost on the alternative energy, and new potential, albeit in the cutting- drivers either. the first signed to technology and more efficient edge hybrid technology. toyota’s WEC programme was engines,” he says. “the rules for “there is definitely going to be Alex Wurz. it’s 16 years since endurance racing really open technology-sharing at some point, a young Alex Wurz, driving a that up. 15 years ago no one based around technologies such Joest Porsche, first won Le mans. would have thought you could as the battery storage and energy He’s added a long F1 career and win Le mans with a diesel. now recovery,” continues Leupen. “i another victory in the forests that’s been disproved and the think this a big issue where we, of Sarthe to that – but Wurz advancement in technology as tmG, are strongly invested and confesses that even for a driver that’s come from it has been have already come up with some of his experience, having a world significant. there’s probably still ideas – for instance, we recently championship up for grabs more to come from diesel but in broke the electric lap record changes the game. parallel to that we have hybrids on the nordschleife – and that “it’s a big thing,” he admits. and Le mans will be the perfect technology has already been fed “Racing to win an event is one place to show that off because it’s back to tmC.” thing – racing to win a world a fast track with lots of braking toyota’s willingness – indeed, championship is something else. and lots of opportunities to eagerness – to commit to a hybrid When i heard the news i was still recover energy. programme in WEC is in part also with Peugeot and certainly all “it’s the perfect proving driven by a belief that the new nine of the factory drivers thought ground because endurance format for endurance racing will it was very cool. in the past Le “ the hIgh level of racing is about performance, fuel entice more manufacturers into mans has always been the focus economy and reliability and this the sport over the next few years but i think now everyone will be competItIon and is perfectly in tune with what’s and give it serious competition thinking ‘yeah, Le mans… but the required of a normal road car. to race against, thus accelerating world championship is the really the excItement of “obviously toyota is a leader the pace of development. the loss important thing.’” the events make in hybrid technology on the of Peugeot’s entry is obviously a on the subject of Le mans road and everything we can do blow, but with Porsche expected specifically and endurance racing It a good fIt for for R&D in racing – whether it’s to return with a works team in in general, Wurz thinks it will be what we want to making components lighter or 2014 and others presumed to the perfect place for a hybrid to improving packaging or making follow, the innovation war at the stand out. showcase.” them more robust – is going to 048 The in prototype racing and two talk about competing at a front is likely to be stepped up. be of benefit. it’s a beautiful 049 PrivaTeer incredibly successful higher level it isn’t just on “We expect other example of where cutting edge seasons in LMp2 with our track where that applies.” manufacturers are also working technology comes into sport, is While the manufacturers partners at hpD, Wirth Constructed by honda on this, because it is the right further optimised, and then goes agonise over the future of research and Michelin, it’s performance Development ballpark and the right framework back out to the road.” internal combustion, things the perfect time to step up in California the hpD arX- are much simpler for the for the technology we all want toyota will race most of the into LMp1 with honda’s new 03a is a new chassis with a privateers who just want to use,” confirms Leupen. “F1 season with just one car – with car. there are many familiar honda V8 normally- bathe in glory. Strakke is history for tmG, that isn’t a second appearing at Le mans. challenges involved in that, aspirated engine that will be racing has the unique an area in which we want to it will miss the first race of but they’re all things we’re raced by both Strakke and distinction of having taken compete and other race series the season at Sebring, joining looking forward to.” JrM racing. Facing stiff overall victory in an LMS For the privateers a big part direct competition from the i don’t think are quite on that the field for the second at Spa. race with an LMp2 car and of that challenge is adjusting pescarolo Lola/Judds and same level yet – although we are Eleventh hour amendments to after successful campaigns to a different sponsorship rebellion racing’s Lola/ very interested in what the FiA the regulations for WEC mean in LMp2 the Silverstone- marketplace. In the case of toyotas, phillips doesn’t view is doing with Formula E and we they have a fighting chance of based team has moved up to Strakke that means stepping the lack of an ‘alternative’ LMp1, swapping their are very interested in involving battling for the title at the end of onto the world stage after powertrain as a barrier. honda-developed hpD arX- our EV powertrain technology in the season: each squad’s six best racing mostly in Europe. 01C for the new hpD arX- “It’s nice to have the same that race series – but nothing else results will count, but only the 03a. team principal and “Sebring, Spa, Le Mans, proven powertrain when really has the right mix. team’s first car across the finish technical director piers Silverstone, Fuji, Interlagos, you’re racing with a car that “With WEC, i think we are able line will score. if toyota can go phillips hails the creation of what fantastic places to go, is brand new from the tub to say there’s a big opportunity the distance, they will have an the WEC as ‘perfect timing’. getting back to the great days upwards. I’m sure honda has to enhance the name of toyota. fascinating reintroduction to of the group C era,” says a development plan for it now “With this level of global We are still the world’s largest endurance racing. phillips. “add in stops in that it’s competing against appeal, the fantastic China and the Middle East manufacturer teams but this automotive manufacturer and countries in which we’re and it really emphasises the is endurance racing and we have suffered by having no competing and the legendary global strength of the series. what you need most of all is presence in motor sport. We have WEC 2012 circuits at which we’ll race, that’s going to make talking reliability, so it makes sense a reputation, and part of our DnA Launched last June, the World anyone with the chance to r Endurance Championship kicks off to some sponsors much to stick with a proven engine. to be in motor sport. therefore i LE

race in the new championship t easier – but harder with and it is a great engine in at sebring, usa on March 17th. From is very fortunate. We should think this move into endurance others. a lot of European terms of its power delivery, racing will strongly support the S BU there, the series will see teams be very grateful to the FIa Ma compete at spa in Belgium, Le Mans firms are going to only be driveability and torque. plus toyota brand.”

and the automobile Club de tho interested in advertising in it sounds amazing – and in France, silverstone in Britain, sao l’ouest for putting it together. Brand awareness if a fine Europe, which means we motor sport hasn’t changed Paulo’s interlagos circuit in Brazil, “From our personal point of have to aim higher and at to the extent that this isn’t impetus for a manufacturer but Bahrain’s sakhir circuit, with the view, having had three years bigger companies. When we still a big plus!” for fans the real draw of this finale at Japan’s Fuji circuit. For more

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The goal is to THE strengthen the capabilities of automobile UNIVERSITY clubs around the world fast track to a motor sPort eDucation CHALLENGE The world’s first university motor sport Last December, the federation launched a new initiative degree was a course called Motor Racing Engineering and Design, launched by the aimed at helping member mobility clubs develop to Swansea Institute (now the Swansea their full potential - an FIA University. InMotion goes Metropolitan University) in Wales in 1998. This proved to be a great success and the back to college to fi nd out how the project is progressing university now has extensive facilities to train youngsters who are keen to break into the industry, including the use of the local Pembrey racing circuit and on campus workshops where students build and engineer racing machinery. Since then many other educational establishments have followed Swansea’s lead and have introduced motor sport courses, aimed at various different levels, from pre-apprenticeship courses to post- graduate doctoral studies. The best known are at Cranfield University, where Masters degrees are offered in Motorsport Engineering and Management, plus similar 050 he FiA University made to do to achieve its strategic goals.” qualifications in a range of more specific 051 its full debut during the Such corporate educational areas, such as lightweight structures, aerodynamics, computational fluid membership Benefits establishments go back at least 200 dynamics and computer aided engineering. Forum at the FiA Annual years, with one of the first, the East The majority of the universities involved General Assembly in new india College in Hertfordshire in in motor sport are in the industry clusters Delhi,t last December. Earlier, at the England, being set up in 1806 to train in Britain and in NASCAR country in the FiA’s World Council for Automobile young gentlemen who would later go United States, although a course is now mobility and tourism, the 2012 on to work as colonial administrators also available at France’s Ecole Supérieure business plan for the FiA University with the British East india Company. des Techniques Aéronautiques et de was approved, the federation However, the idea of having Construction Automobile (ESTACA), which endorsing its goal to strengthen internal units inside big corporations has campuses in Paris and Laval. A number of the British courses are the capabilities of automobile began in the 1940s, though the accredited by the Institution of Mechanical clubs around the world through an idea did not really take off until the Engineers (IMechE), while the American educational programme. A grant 1980s, when global corporations, courses tend to feed the NASCAR need for from the FiA Foundation to the FiA finding themselves in constant need young engineers. There are also a number Strategic Programme on Road Safety of greater efficiency, recognised of motor sport marketing and management and Capacity Building means that that these training departments programmes available. the idea can now be turned into a could become strategic tools to To date, however, the development of reality. help employees to better reflect online motor sport courses is limited as the question is, what exactly is the the company’s culture, values and the existing courses are generally of the traditional teaching model, with students FiA University? What does the new philosophies, in addition to fostering attending classes. In part, this is due to the programme hope to achieve and how the skills that were being taught. practical nature of some of the courses. will it operate? on top of that, such programmes The first online course relating to the “it is a bit like the corporate allowed executives to learn about commercial side of motor sport has been universities that a lot of companies concepts such as leadership, creative launched, designed for students with now have,” says Agustí milà, the thinking and problem-solving. it also ambitions to one day become Formula One FiA’s manager of membership helped them to develop their own personnel. This is run by Swiss-based SMC Services and Business Development. careers, which then had the knock- University, which offers a Motorsport “these are not like traditional on effect of keeping them happier in Management Certificate for graduates. The course looks at the background and history universities, where students go their work. the end result was that of motor sport, the principles of race team to attend courses. Corporate companies were able to focus on organisation, management, sponsorship universities are structures within what was important and were better acquisition, marketing and PR, the logistics companies that recognise that able to develop the business in a of the sport and the business lessons to be

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concluded that the student of the future → “these companies mixed training practice, but we also want to make find the right expertise. it will not be “will probably not ‘attend’ classes; rather, and educational programmes in a sure that it is something for all clubs restricted to just people within the the opportunities and processes of learning new way, in order to respond to the at different stages of development. Federation.” will come to him. He will learn at home, at needs of their organisation,” says “in Dr Luis Vives, Strategy initially the project will focus the office, on the job, in the factory, store, or milà. “that is what we are trying to Professor and expert in Corporate on road safety but the project salesroom, or on the farm”. He argued that the methods employed “will remove do with the FiA University.” Universities from ESADE Business developers believe that motor sport barriers of space and time in learning”. the fundamental difference School, we have an excellent applications could be organised in between the FiA and a multinational external partner and in thierry the future. The Open University, which relied on radio and television broadcasts, was launched in corporation is that the federation is Willemarck, CEo of the touring Club “Ultimately, we would like to Britain in 1971. not one homogenous unit, but rather Belgium and World Council member, see the FiA University become an a far looser collection of diverse we have a strong project mentor. overall FiA project that will be of The development of the Internet in the 1990s accelerated the process, with automobile clubs and federations, Both were instrumental in manning benefit to all the clubs, whether they courses quickly being offered online. The with different goals, different levels the very successful membership are mobility or motor sport. that impact of that change is still being felt of development and leadership, and Benefit Forum in new Delhi, which is definitely the vision. We want to today, with more sophisticated ideas different operating environments. was attended by 80 clubs. make all of the clubs more successful becoming viable as bandwidth increases. “We really want to aim high with “We have since looked at the in all respects,” insists Birk. This means that not only can students the FiA University,” says ortrud elements that could appeal to all “We are starting in mobility and watch live lectures (known as synchronous Birk, the FiA’s Director of Public the clubs, and leadership was one we will develop from there. it is open learning), they can also access course Policy and Services. “the FiA is central theme,” she adds. “there is to all the FiA family,” says milà. material as they wish (asynchronous fully focused on saving lives and also strategy at an organisational the idea of a corporate university learning), including webcasts and podcasts taking learning out preventing injuries as part of the governance level, so it really is an is clearly a useful one for the FiA in of lectures. of the classroom Decade of Action for Road Safety. effort to raise standards across all terms of strategic and developmental The idea of an FIA University might suggest The two methods of learning can be through our Action for Road Safety the clubs, and that will then impact thinking, but there is also the combined and a number of courses also “We are trying the need for a solid educational building initiative, the FiA is engaging clubs on their ability to be strong, credible prospect that it could in time have include residential sessions, in order for which students attend for classes, but around the world in being effective and visible promoters of road safety to tailor-make a commercial possibilities, given the much has changed in recent years in the there to be a better understanding between teacher and pupil and better interaction road safety advocates so we can stop in their countries. these skills will global interest in the automobile, way people are educated. The FIA this scourge. the FiA University also help them be effective partners state-of-the-art including public policy related to University is a reflection of these between students. The days of the old is where we can build or enhance in future campaigns.” motor vehicles, and in motor sport. developments and will feature a blended exclusive universities may be coming to an educational learning model, with traditional face-to- end as more democratic means of learning the capability of clubs everywhere milà adds that although the clubs this does not mean that in the face methods, allied to modern Internet- develop, but the major universities are to take a leadership role on this are very diverse there are certain longer term there could not be based programmes. This means that not embracing the technology as they see it as initiative in their countries. We things they all need. programme” courses to teach customers how to be only will the students be able to interact a possible source of revenues in the future, want to share knowledge and best “We are trying to tailor-make prepared to work in the automobile as it frees them from having a limited with their professors, they will also be able a state-of-the-art, world-class, Agustí Milà or motor sport industries. number of students. 052 to share ideas among themselves, while educational programme that will “We just happen to be the ones 053 also being able to work independently The Open University today has more than provide the clubs with something who are starting the project,” says 250,000 students, and offers 600 different wherever they are in the world. that most of them cannot do on their “We are not going to be building a Birk. “once our little world is The concept of distance learning is not new, courses, which count towards towards 250 “We want to different qualifications. own,” he says. “We need to gather building,” admits milà, “but rather successful, we would be happy to see although technology has revolutionised the interested parties, bring together we will be seeking to use venues the principle being used in sport as The academic world’s embrace of new make all of the things over the past 15 years. developed and developing clubs, and that are already being employed well and who knows what beyond technologies has been aided in partby The first known reference to what used to provide them with information from when FiA people are meeting. this that. But we want to reach the goals be called correspondence classes dates Apple Inc, which announced an initiative clubs more called iTunes U in 2007. This is a service top line universities, as well as from means we will use the facilities to the that we have set for ourselves. back to 1728, when an advertisement experts in their own ranks.” maximum. “i think our most important focus appeared in the Boston Gazette, offering that manages, distributes, and controls successful in the FiA University will start “it is a step-by-step process,” he at this point, though, is helping clubs students weekly dispatches in order to access to educational audio and video learn shorthand. The postal service was content and portable document format all respects” out with a number of face-to-face adds. “We need to make sure that develop and more effectively deploy relied upon for such ideas for the next 200 (PDF) files for students. Academic gatherings, in different places people are getting the things they their leadership opportunities and years and the University of London claims institutions are able to use Apple’s iTunes Ortrud Birk around the world. expect, and then they can start strategic planning to achieve our to have been the first such establishment to store infrastructure and can control the “it is good to have a structure spreading the word. At the beginning collective road safety goals.” offer an “external programme” in 1858. level of student access using passwords. with a physical presence as it helps of its life it will be more of an internal milà says that the project has in Those enrolled in classes have access to to bind representatives of the clubs operation for FiA member clubs. reality already started. The development of radio led to the first material not generally available, but other broadcasting of lessons. As early as 1926 content is provided free, as a means of both together,” says milà. “there will We will have top professors coming “We presented the concept in the the BBC’s first Director of Education JC spreading knowledge and also advertising also be some internet devices to in to teach specific subjects, but also membership Benefits Forum at the Stobart suggested that it was possible to the establishments in question. There are help them prepare for the courses experts from within club structures. General Assembly,” he says. “At the establish a “wireless university”, but now more than 350,000 files available to and which will also deliver part of this will permit us to customise same time we gave them an idea of efforts to achieve this remained piecemeal, download from iTunes U, with the world’s the content. it will be a blended courses to our road safety goals, the kind of activities we would be although universities in the United States best universities offering content. Oxford learning model and networking is an while making use of external and doing. We also asked them to provide did begin teaching classes over the University in England, which became important part of that. club management and leadership their ideas and what they expect airwaves. involved in 2008 says it had 168,000 visitors “We do not expect to have long expertise. We would like to see the from such an organisation. We are in its first week of operation. The university It was not until the 1960s that serious steps academic courses,” he stresses. “We participants being willing to invite as now compiling what the contents began to be taken to embrace television. In says it now has an audience in 185 are thinking more of short periods many people as possible, as a sign of will be in the future. 1963 the BBC and the British Ministry of countries. Thirty-eight percent of the Education discussed plans for a College of audience is in the United States, but 29 of activity, depending on the content success.” “that is a process that will take the Air, while the country’s Labour Party, percent comes from China. and the number of likely attendance. the university’s organisers also some months and in the meantime keen to expand education to lower income Other universities such as Cambridge, Global ambitions are not always hope to forge links with other we are looking for suitable meetings groups, proposed a University of the Air. Harvard, Yale and MIT have had similar the same as regional ones, and so teaching institutions. at which to present the concept to In the United States, Charles Wedemeyer of experiences and today more than 1,000 we really want to bring the courses “the project is still very new at others and maybe have some taster the University of Wisconsin was sponsored universities in 123 countries are involved in closer to where the people are.” this point,” says milà, “but we will courses, to show people what we are by the Carnegie Foundation to look into iTunes U with over 600 millions downloads the FiA University will not have a look outside of the FiA to find the planning. then the aim is to run the possible developments in education. He since the scheme began. campus, at least not initially. best colleges and universities and to first full course later this year.”

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“We are all still learning what is required. The only experience we have is with the Indian event last year but we have a very strong project for this year and we are working hard with the FIA to make it happen. inperson “Although all the details and venues talking to the people who help to have still to be finalised, we will be having the General Assembly in one of keep the world of the fia turning the one of the palaces on the waterfront of the Bosphorus,” he adds. “There will be social events and activities for guests and those not involved in meetings. Later in the week we will have the Gala. There will be around 700-800 people involved so there is a lot to be organised, but we are working on all of that. “There will be a number of different venues but all of them will be close to As President of the Turkish auto the Bosphorus. That will be the theme, if you like. Hopefully the weather will be federation, MüMtaz tahincioğlu good to us, but, in any case, the Bosphorus is still a beautiful location.” has a history of bringing big events For Tahincioğlu the event will mark the final chapter in what has been a very to the country. Now, as he prepares fruitful career at TOSFED. He will retire as the club’s president after the event, to leave office, he’s delivered yet after five three-year terms of office. “I hope the end-of-year events will another, in the shape of the 2012 FIA be a good way to say goodbye,” he says. “I will stay in motor sport after that. It is Annual General Assembly my hobby and I have spent a lot of time and money on it over the years, but I am 054 The FIA Annual General Assembly and standing down as the president of 055 Prize Giving Gala always used to take TOSFED. Perhaps I will be involved in place in Monte Carlo in early December. other ways in the future. I do not know.” It was just how things were done. Tahincioğlu’s passion for motor sport However, when Jean Todt was elected was somewhat unusual for a country FIA President in 2009 he decided that an without any tradition in racing. His international federation should be a interest developed when he was little more international and so studying in England in the 1970s. He proposed that the event be moved remained in the UK when he began annually, thus giving member clubs the working for his family’s confectionery opportunity to host the big event. business and did not return to Turkey The first such truly international event until 1989, when he immediately became took place last December in New Delhi, involved in developing karting series in India and was branded a major success the country. This led to a role in the by all who attended. Afterwards, the national motor sport federation and in FIA instituted a consultation process to 1997 he was elected head of the club. decide the destination of the 2012 AGA, It was the start of an ambitious with the result that at the end of this programme of expansion as Tahincioğlu year we will travel to Istanbul, Turkey, sought to not only grow domestic motor where the Türkiye Otomobil Sporları sport but also to bring both the World One of Tahincioglu’s major achievements was Federasyonu (TOSFED) will pay host to in convincing Formula One commercial rights Rally Championship and Formula One delegates from around the world. holder Bernie Ecclestone to bring the series to the country. Spanning two continents, with half to Turkey at a purpose-built facility, Istanbul The first hurdle was to train officials the city in Europe and the other in Asia, Park. The race was run from 2005 to 2011. to be capable of running international the city embodies the internationalism events, but once this was achieved the FIA is seeking for the event and it Tahincioğlu’s plans moved rapidly. In should provide an ideal backdrop for the 1999, the Rally of Turkey made its first

AGA and the awards ceremony. ochstöger appearance on the European Rally h However, the man who led the country’s Championship calendar. The aim was to ans

successful bid together, TOSFED h lay the groundwork for a world president, Mümtaz Tahincioğlu admits championship event and that goal was that the hard work has just begun. finally achieved in 2003 when Carlos “The concept of a different venue each Sainz won the country’s first WRC event

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→ By that time Tahincioğlu had become countries suffer from not having well- “We decided to invest in new finishing a member of the World Motor Sport trained marshals, which can cause Communicating the FIA’s message has machines and to change our ageing Council and had managed to convince serious problems. We decided to go to stock of printers, as they no longer met the Turkish government to fund the the universities and started training just become a lot more efficient, the specific demands of the various construction of a Formula One circuit marshals from these establishments. departments in terms of quality and near Istanbul. The first Turkish Grand Now we have got 3,000-4,000 marshals according to the organisation’s Head of time,” he says. “Numerous tasks were Prix, won by Ferrari’s Felipe Massa, who are doctors, lawyers, engineers and Print and Shipping, Michel Meynet subcontracted externally at far higher followed soon after, in 2005. so on. We have everything working very cost than we are now proposing.” “We did all of the things we promised well, and that is very important.” Specifically, Meynet’s department to do,” he says. “But it is not just about Turkey is a country with a culture of bought in a Xerox CP1000 colour bringing big events to a country. I think football but Mümtaz says that he feels printer, a Xerox Nuvera 144 black and that the most successful thing we did that motor sport is at least recognised white printer and a Canon iPF8300 was to create a really good marshal and understood these days. large format printer. Together, the development programme. Lots of “Rallying is really the country’s motor three machines mean the FIA now has sport heritage,” he says, “but we have a much improved print resource. It now seems unlikely that Felipe managed to create championships here “There are a number of benefits Massa (above) will ever score a that are growing all the time. We run a associated with the machines we fourth Turkish GP win. “Turkey did lot of karting and we have a lot of new brought in,” Meynet explains. “We can not want to pay the price being asked,” says Tahincioglu. drivers coming through. There is much now meet the demands of the FIA more of a racing culture now. We are across all its offices, and we can always trying to add more, but we are respond to their needs rapidly. There limited by the economic situation. We are no more intermediaries and we are all suffer from this but we keep working not affected by the lead times or and we have built motor sport from schedules of any outside agencies. almost nothing to a reasonable level.” “Because everything is in-house it Tahincioğlu still hopes to be able to means we can interact directly with get the World Rally Championship and each office or department and deliver Formula One back one day, but he what they want. It doesn’t matter if the understands that it is not easy. job is as small as printing business “Jean Todt wants the World Rally cards or if it’s as large as printing Championship to be just that, a world brochures, posters or banners, we can championship, and there were too many meet their demands and do it quickly. European rallies in the WRC,” he says. “For example, with the backdrops 056 “As the latecomer we were the first to we made for our partnership with 057 suffer, but we are now working on an Michelin, we had a request to prepare project to try to join the Greek and banners and we were able to complete Turkish rallies together to create one big them within an hour. Before now that event, starting in Athens and finishing in would not have been possible.” Istanbul, or vice versa. We are still a Perhaps the major benefit, however, candidate for the WRC. is the reduction in cost to the FIA. “Formula One is very simple. It is a “Previously, a lot of this print work matter of paying the right money. would have been outsourced and this Turkey did not want to pay the price is very expensive,” says Meynet. “We being asked. The problem was that after have reduced the cost significantly, the first couple of years there was no not only because of the new machines promotion and so people did not go. but because we are also in control “Turkey has to move away from the of buying paper and materials. We soccer culture and this takes time,” he can also guarantee quality control, so concludes. “The crowds at F1 were not there is not so much wastage.” bad in the first three years but no money Meynet sums up the new resources was spent to advertise the race or to help t’s become a Formula One what the Print department now by saying it is the first time the FIA has develop a racing culture. And then the tradition that at the end of delivers,” he says. “We have invested had the ability to generate material to economic crisis came along which did qualifying the top three drivers in a lot of new technology that allows order, in house, no matter from which not help, but we have a good track in a gather in Parc Fermé to pose for us to develop new products such as department the request comes. good location so we have not given up.” theI world’s media and to salute the posters, roll-ups and visuals for “We work for all FIA staff, but we fans in the main grandstand. publicising the image of the FIA at work most closely with the marketing mümtaz tahincioGlu Born in the Last year though, the celebrations events and for promoting the Action and communications departments, as southeastern Turkish city of Mardin in 1952, were slightly different, the occasion for Road Safety campaign.” they have a high demand for products Mümtaz emigrated to the UK in the last 1960s, being used by the FIA and F1’s drivers Meynet joined the FIA at the that allow them to properly get the remaining there until 1989. While in the UK he to broadcast the Federation’s message beginning of last year after seven FIA’s message across.”

developed an interest in motor sports and in a beid o of road safety by posing in front of a years at the European Broadcasting short racing career became a three-time large Action for Road Safety banner. Union, where for the past two years he

Turkish kart champion. His true calling though ndre michEl mEYnEt A Master of the Alpine was in administration of the sport and as head a The highly visible backdrop is the worked in a similar position to that he Geography Institut, Michel began his career in of TOSFED he has presided over the most creation of Michel Meynet, the FIA’s now holds in Geneva. However, when a private society in Geneva as a Cartography successful period of Turkey’s motor sport Head of Print and Shipping. he moved into his new role he found a Engineer before moving on to the European history, bringing both Formula One and World “This Action for Road Safety banner department lagging behind in what Broadcast Union, where he stayed for seven

Rally Championship rounds to the country. photography in Formula One is a good example of could be achieved in print. years before joining the FIA.

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are doing that, we are trying to see what specialising in electronic media and With the FIA striving are the best answers to create a stronger social networks. online media presence. A native of Guadeloupe, she grew up to connect with “We have had to meet everyone and in a cosmopolitan environment. The talk to them to try to understand their island is French, but has close links to new audiences, the needs, so we have been very busy in the nearby islands with long-established federation’s new last few weeks. At the same time we are links to Britain. As such, when she in the process of building a new fia.com visited Antigua, Montserrat and similar Head of Content website, which we are doing with the IT islands she learned English. The process department in Geneva, and with web was helped by the fact that some of her Mathias BarBera designers in England. It is a challenge, family were living in the United States. but we are having fun.” After university she began a career as and Content Officer Barbera is used to challenges as he has a freelance journalist but found that spent the past 10 years in a demanding there was more work to be found in the Malaika coco role with one of Europe’s biggest football Web sector and began to specialise, clubs, Paris St Germain. Originally from initially with content for the website of are harnessing Perpignan in France, he grew up in a French television channel TF1. She then family passionate about sport, especially moved on to a job with the Canal+ TV the power of the football and as a youngster, Mathias was channel, as a website section editor, keen to be involved in sports. managing content relating to news and Internet to reach out “I went to university in Montpellier,” documentaries, while at the same time to clubs and fans in he says. “There they had an exchange administering the Canal+ pages on agreement with the University of Facebook. Like many Internet exciting new ways Colorado in Denver and I thought it professionals, she has learned to deal would be good to study in the United with the software as she has gone along. States, to improve my English and to see “At the FIA I am working mainly with another culture. the Internet and social networks,” she “I applied and was accepted, so I spent explains. “We are creating a new fia.com a year in Denver and then decided to website and I have already created social stay for another year to take advantage networks for the FIA on Facebook. There of an opportunity to work – unpaid – are two pages: one for the FIA itself with the Denver Nuggets basketball (facebook.com/fia); and the other for team, which plays in the National Action For Road Safety (facebook.com/ 058 The job of a modern international Basketball Association (NBA). It was FIAActionForRoadSafety). This means 059 federation is a lot more complicated than really just to gain experience in sports that people and clubs can keep up to it used to be, thanks largely to the marketing but it proved to be very date with what we are doing on a day-to- opportunities (and challenges) created useful. I supported myself by giving day basis, rather than finding out much by developments in all areas of content, French lessons, while I worked on a later about new initiatives. especially in online media and social marketing project for the Nuggets.” “I have also created a Twitter account networks. Having opted for a small He then heard about an opportunity for the FIA (www.twitter.com/fia) and an digital footprint in the past, the FIA is in Paris, where PSG needed someone to FIA Channel on YouTube (www.youtube. moving with the times and is busy work in its communications department. com/FIAOfficialVideo), where people building a much bigger presence in the “That was great,” he says. “I am really can see videos of what we are doing. digital world. To manage this, and all passionate about soccer and PSG is such There is a lot more that we can do to other content requirements, a new a big team. I started working there when make these more active and we are now department was recently set up in Paris. I was 23 years old and I spent 10 years looking at all the possibilities and The new team will help to spread there, becoming the media manager. deciding what is the best way to get the information more quickly among the “In that role I was the main point of FIA’s messages across, not only to the member clubs, as they too embrace the contact between the French media and member clubs, but also to new information revolution. These are the star players and their management. generations. exciting times and there is no shortage I was dealing with players such as Nicolas “It has been pretty busy so far and of energy in the new department where Anelka and Ronaldinho. It was exciting there is still a lot to do, but it is great fun Mathias Barbera, the Head of Content, and helped me build up a very good and a real challenge. “ and Malaika Coco, the Content Officer, network of contacts in the French press. are preparing the groundwork and “This is very useful as it fits well with mathias barbEra Born in Perpignan, taking the first steps towards giving the the other staff in the Communications Mathias spent the past 10 years as media FIA a stronger presence online. Department. Communications Director manager at Paris St German, looking after “Our department is new and content Norman Howell is well-connected in some of the world’s highest-profile football is a big word,” says Mathias, “so we have England and in other countries in stars. Despite the myriad challenges of the web he still has time to devote to the four a lot of things to do. This job feels a bit Europe and F1 Head of Communications

doyen elements of his motto: ‘life, sports, media,

like how it must be for an air traffic Matteo Bonciani knows a lot of people and a good glass of wine.’ controller. There are lots of things in Italy and in Asia, and, of course, in malaika coco gained a Masters degree

antoine Formula One as well. So between us we happening all over the world – all at the in history at the Sorbonne in Paris before same time. The FIA is also a big network, have a very good network.” gaining a second Masters degree at the with many different branches in many Mathias is joined in the new endeavour Ecole Supérieure de Journalisme in Paris. different locations, and our first priority by Malaika Coco. She has had a career She also has a degree in media management

photography photography is to understand how it all works! As we all about networking of a different kind, from the ESCP Europe business school.

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