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INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF THE FIA: Q2 2016 ISSUE #15 IMPACT ASSESSMENT PATHS TO GLORY New measurement systems are The route to motor sport’s top providing the most detailed level can be cruel, but missing picture yet of what happens out on a grand prix career need in a racing accident P24 not spell the end of the road P44 POWER TO PEOPLE BREATHING SPACE Motor sport’s glorious past and As Kenya’s road network becomes cutting-edge future met when increasingly choked by traffic and Formula E descended on the pollution, the FIA Foundation is city where racing was born P38 taking steps to help P64 P30 TEAM PLAYERS BEHIND THE SCENES IN F1 WITH THE PEOPLE WHO MAKE A GRAND PRIX HAPPEN Q2 2016 Q2 #15 ISSUE FIAAutoMagazine_04_16.indd 1 26.04.16 15:05 FIAAutoMagazine_04_16.indd 1 26.04.16 15:05 ISSUE #15 INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF THE FIA Editorial Board: JEAN TODT, OLIVIER FISCH GERARD SAILLANT, SAUL BILLINGSLEY Editor-in-chief: LUCA COLAJANNI Executive Editor: MARC CUTLER Editor: JUSTIN HYNES Copy Editor: GILLIAN RODGERS Art Direction and Design: CARA FURMAN Contributors: ANTHONY PEACOCK, SAM SMITH, TONY THOMAS, KATE WALKER, GARY WATKINS Repro Manager: ADAM CARBAJAL Printing: GOLINELLI COMMUNICATION LAB We would like to thank the following for their help with this issue of AUTO: RICHARD CLARKE, JOE DIAMOND, SAMEER PATEL, AVI SILVERMAN Advertising: STEPHANE FILLASTRE [email protected] facebook.com/fia twitter.com/fia Legal: © 2016 FIA. All rights reserved. Except to the extent permitted under applicable copyright laws, no part of the information found in this publication may be reproduced instagram.com/fia.official or distributed in any form or by any means, or stored in a data base or retrieval system, without the prior written permission of the FIA. youtube.com/fiaofficialvideo THE FIA Dear readers, The Fédération Internationale de l’Automobile is the governing On 23 April, something that was a dream for me and body of world motor sport and I believe also for all motor sport fans, took place in the federation of the world’s leading motoring organisations. Paris, with the staging of a Formula E race in the Founded in 1904, it brings heart of the city. together 236 national motoring and sporting organisations from The first ever race for four-wheeled vehicles, the over 135 countries, representing Paris–Rouen, took place in 1896 and 120 years later, millions of motorists worldwide. In motor sport, it administers motor sport was back, just a stone’s throw from the the rules and regulations for all historic headquarters of the FIA, in the shape of our international four-wheel sport, including the FIA Formula One Formula E championship, which looks to the future. World Championship and FIA In the same way that a driver relies on a huge team World Rally Championship. to get through a race weekend, so too our event would not have happened without the efforts of so THE FIA FOUNDATION many people to whom we are grateful. The FIA Foundation is an independent UK-registered charity The racing season is now in full swing and that supports an international attention to safety is as always, at the highest level: programme of activities promoting road safety, the environment in this issue we look at what is being done to study and sustainable mobility. It every accident down to the smallest detail, because was established in 2001 with a donation of $300 million from the it is by analysing the dynamics of accidents that one FIA and is governed by a Board of can work to avoid them in the future. Trustees. Among its activities, the Foundation participates in various More often than not, drivers starting out in the sport UN road safety and environment aspire to get into Formula One but motor sport offers related partnerships and is a member of the UN Global Road many alternatives to satisfy the desire to compete. Safety Collaboration. The spotlight might be less bright but the joy of victory is just as intense. These and many other THE FIA INSTITUTE stories can be found in the pages of this issue of AUTO. The FIA Institute is an international I hope you enjoy reading them. not-for-profit organisation that develops and improves motor sport safety and sustainability. It leads projects that encourage the rapid development of new and improved safety technologies; that facilitate higher standards of education and training; and that raise awareness of safety and sustainability issues. The Institute was established in October 2004 and funds its Jean Todt, activities through annual grants FIA President from the FIA Foundation. 7 AUTO / ISSUE #15 CONTENTS From Formula One’s team players to the Paris ePrix and the legendary Derek Bell, this is AUTO 12 22 UP AUTO FRONT ASKS P12-15 P22-23 GALLERY THE BIG QUESTION GT40 ‘blown up’ in How to solve the photo special; FIA problem of European truck racing congestion and hits new heights with pollution in the a new promoter world’s major cities? AUTO asks three P16-21 transport experts NEWS for their views F1 reaches global The people who agreement on engines; work to make a FIA launches karting Grand Prix weekend happen, p30 slalom concept xxxx xxxx xxxx xxxx 24 30 TECH COVER REPORT STORY P24-28 P30-37 SAFETY MEASURES F1’S TEAM PLAYERS The devices being AUTO goes around used to give a fuller the grid to speak to picture of what some of the people F1 teams reach happens to a racing who help to make a agreement on driver in a crash grand prix happen engine supply, p16 PHOTOGRAPHY: XXXXXXXXXX PHOTOGRAPHY: 8 AUTOAUTO \ XXXXXXXXX / ISSUE #15 P50-56 Derek Bell relives ROADS TO LE MANS his glory days in 38 How Jota Sport has doubled sportscars, p76 its efforts in a bid for further sportscar success P58-62 AUTO FIA GRANT PROJECTS How the latest funding is aiding FOCUS road safety and motor sport P38-43 P64-69 FORMULA E IN PARIS FIA FOUNDATION IN KENYA The future met the past when How the Foundation is working the all-electric series raced in the with the UN and other parties city where motor sport was born to clean up Nairobi’s roads P44-49 P70-74 76 84 PATHS TO RACING GLORY CROSS COUNTRY RALLYING Not every promising driver will Three female crews benefit make it to F1 – AUTO speaks to from the FIA Women in some enjoying success elsewhere Motorsport’s work in Qatar REAR AUTO VIEW GRAPH P76-81 P84-85 LEGEND: MANUFACTURERS DEREK BELL IN MOTOR SPORT The story behind his Which auto makers sportscar success, are leading the way missed opportunities when it comes to in F1, and why Jacky motor sport Ickx was The Man participation 82 How the law might effect FINAL automated LAP driving, p86 P82 P86 FREEZE FRAME AUTOMATED LAW The Global When Turin played The legal Fuel Economy host to the 1948 frameworks that Initiative’s drive to Italian GP, it gave might exist to deal cut road pollution Ferrari a golden with automated in Kenya, p64 opportunity vehicles PHOTOGRAPHY: XXXXXXXXXX PHOTOGRAPHY: 9 AUTO / ISSUE #15 UP FRONT Racing car art FULLY BLOWN This “disintegrating” Ford GT40 is the work of Switzerland-based photographer Fabian Oefner, who meticulously pieced together thousands of shots to make the final image. The car has been dismantled completely, from the body shell to the smallest screws, then photographed piece by piece in a specific position to obtain the illusion of an exploding car. The result is designed to look like it was a moment captured by a single shot from a camera, but it took months to create the image. “These are possibly the ‘slowest high-speed’ images ever captured,” Oefner told The Creators Project platform. “It took almost two months to create an image that looks as if it was captured in a fraction of a second. The whole disassembly in itself took more than a day for each car due to the complexity of the models.” This shot of the famous GT40 is one of five that Oefner took for this series. The full list includes a Bugatti 57 SC (1936), Auto Union Type C (1936-1937), Maserati 250F (1957), Ford GT40 (1969) and a Porsche 956 (1982). 12 AUTO / ISSUE #15 FANTASTIC FORD The GT40 was the car that ended Ferrari’s dominance at the Le Mans 24 Hours, as recounted in Paths to Glory, p56. The American-British car scored four straight wins in the classic endurance race from 1966-69, including a 1-2-3 finish led by Chris Amon and Bruce McLaren in ‘66. 13 AUTO / ISSUE #15 Truck racing MOVING ON UP The FIA European Truck Racing Championship was back with a bang in May with the first round of the 2016 season taking place at the Red Bull Ring in Austria. This is a momentous year for the championship following the appointment of a series promoter by the FIA for the next five years. ETRA Promotions plans to build on the already strong foundations of the series, which boasts race attendance second only to Formula One on the circuits of Europe. ETRA is implementing a solid strategy and investment plan to further increase media exposure and wider public awareness of this spectacular branch of the sport. It has recruited experts from various areas of motor sport and truck racing to develop the championship brand, attract new series partners, gain more media coverage in motor sport and lifestyle media, as well as the truck specialist press, and work on increasing television distribution.