INMOTION A STAGE THEY’RE THE INDUSTRY THE SAFEST SEAT MAPPING THE GOING THROUGH STANDARD IN THE HOUSE PATHS TO GLORY The FIA is helping After 15 years as the How a Beirut University Grand Prix great Gerhard to develop the rally arbiter of new car safety, launched the world’s rst Berger on why the route champions of the future where next for Euro NCAP? chair in road safety to F1 must be simpli ed

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8 Place de la Concorde | 75008 | . MOTORING (t) +33 (0)1 43 12 58 15 (f) +33 (0)1 43 12 58 19 With senior citizens soon expected July 2012 inmotion@ a.com to make up 30 per cent of the driving © FIA 2012. All rights reserved. population, are we prepared? STOPSTOP UP UP TOTO 33 METRESMETRES SHORTERSHORTER * WITHWITH MICHELIN MICHELIN ENERGY™ENERGY™ SAVERSAVER TYRES.TYRES.* INSIDE Dear Friends, → INFOCUS 02 As you all know the Federation is actively The latest developments in mobility and as well as news involved in road safety across a number of areas. from across the FIA’s worldwide network of clubs. One that is often overlooked is the rising challenge of an ageing population in developed countries. Older people are driving in greater numbers than ever before, in cars and on road → INSIGHT 12 systems that have not been designed with Faced with an environmental backlash, high them in mind. We have therefore made this our 12 The Last Resort ownership costs and roads no longer suitable for their vehicle’s use, cover story, examining this issue from a number supercar owners are retreating behind the walls of private car clubs. of viewpoints. You will find some interesting solutions to some of the problems raised by this 14 Taking Global Action The FIA recently announced the demographic challenge. recipients of the first round of Road Safety Grant Programme funding. Elsewhere, we celebrate 15 years of Euro NCAP. InMotion looks at the schemes approved for aid so far. The work of this pioneering body, supported by 16 Drop the Pilot With several automated cars initiatives moving the FIA, has immeasurably advanced the cause beyond the experimental stage, are the days of human-controlled of road safety since its first crash test results were vehicles numbered? InMotion investigates. released in 1997. Its work is just as relevant today, and with plans well in train for a global network of NCAP organisations, we can look forward to a world of safer motoring in the coming decades. → INDEPTH 18 Still on the subject of road safety, we look at 18 Driving into the Golden Age With over 30 per cent of road the interesting and innovative proposals many users soon expected to be senior citizens, are we doing enough to cope? clubs have put forward on this matter and we list InMotion asks some key motor industry figures for their thoughts on the best, those which have been the recipients how we should deal with the rise of the ‘oldsmobile’. of FIA grants for their efforts. On the sporting side, we talk to Gerhard 24 Diamonds in the Dust The FIA’s WRC Academy aims to Berger, former F1 driver and now President of the unearth the next generation of superstars. We went to the Single Seater Commission, on how we can best programme’s UK base and to the Rally to see how this year’s create a logical path for aspiring drivers from crop of young hopefuls are shaping up. karting all the way to F1. We also look at the FIA’s 32 Paths to Glory Newly appointed FIA Single Seater Commission WRC Academy, where, as part of our commitment president says he has one simple goal – to make the to this exciting branch of motor sport, the road to F1 logical again. But it’s a whole more complicated than it looks. champions of the future are instructed on how to become all-round top athletes and drivers. 38 Testing Times As Euro NCAP celebrates 15 years of safety I do hope you enjoy this issue of InMotion, our benchmarking, we look at the pioneering past and global future of last, as we will be focusing on a new magazine, what has become an industry standard. one that brings together the best from the FIA, 44 Safer by Degree In a world first, a university in Beirut has the FIA Institute and the FIA Foundation. For founded a chair in road safety management. We spoke to the man more on this, please turn to page two. heading up a truly innovative programme, Dr Ramzi Salamé. There are important reasons to choose The MICHELIN ENERGY™ Saver tyre stops up to 3 metres shorter Best wishes, a MICHELIN ENERGY™ Saver tyre: in wet conditions*. 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STOPS UP TO LASTS SAVES UP TO its competitors and helps you save up to 80 litres of fuel . 3 METRES 6,000 MILES 80 LITRES 50 Fabrice Lom After a stellar F1 career, the FIA’s new Head of SHORTER ON LONGER THAN OF FUEL*** Powertrain is perfectly placed to handle power in motor sport. WET ROADS* ITS COMPETITORS** See how the right tyre changes everything at www.michelin.co.uk 52 Angelo Sticchi Damiani The new President of ’s ACI *Compared to the previous generation of the MICHELIN ENERGY™ Saver tyre. 2007 TÜV SÜD Automotive test on tyre size 175/65 R 14 T. believes his club’s first focus must be on youth and safety. **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. 54 Kym Fletcher With a range of sporting rights agreements to ***Estimate of average saving with MICHELIN ENERGY™ Saver tyres compared to main competitors for petrol vehicles. TÜV SÜD Automotive be finalised the FIA legal counsel has plenty to keep her busy. 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 *Comparedaverage to life the span previous for Michelin generation tyres i.e.of the28,000 MICHELIN miles (internal ENERGY™ source). 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 July 2012 INMOTION average life span for Michelin tyres i.e. 28,000 miles (internal source).

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One magazine for the infocusFIA NEWS JULY 2012 whole FIA family Later this year the federation will launch a new magazine aimed at bringing together the knowledge, inventiveness and Since I became President I have We are delighted to be able to offer a resources of the FIA, the FIA wanted to bring together the magazine that will now combine the knowledge, expertise and best features from across the FIA Insititute and the FIA Foundation, enthusiasm of the FIA, the FIA family. The joint publication will as President Jean Todt and Institute and the FIA Foundation. provide a unique forum for President Gérard Saillant explain With this in mind, I’m pleased to informed debate with exclusive announce that the FIA will soon be content driven by the most recent launching a brand new magazine developments across the motor so as to better reflect the growing sport and motoring sectors. collaboration, synergy and It will build upon the successes development which bonds the FIA achieved by IQ and InMotion over Institute and the FIA Foundation to the past year. IQ was launched by the FIA. the FIA Institute in March 2011 as a The new magazine will be a publication that would not only significant step towards harnessing report on its own groundbreaking 002 and harmonizing this energy. By work but also take an intelligent 003 communicating the often vitally look at the major issues in motor important work done by all the sport and motoring. It soon became federation’s institutions, for a must-read publication and an example in the field of safety, both important communications tool for on the track as well as on the roads, the Institute. IQ was unique in not the FIA will be engaging its family of just examining the technical side stakeholders, the automotive world of the sport but doing so with stylish and all the other players in the photography and illustrations. arenas of motor sport, transport, It reached far beyond the 4,000 safety, sustainability and beyond. copies that were distributed to Building on the success of the motor sport stakeholders each FIA’s InMotion and the FIA quarter, with articles finding Institute’s IQ, the new publication strong traction on the web. will bring together the best of both Soon after IQ launched, the FIA magazines, combining the talent, also re-launched InMotion. Neatly inventiveness and resources behind designed, well-written and with each publication. strong production values, the new The content of the magazine InMotion was also extremely well- will be overseen by an editorial received by FIA members and board made up of FIA Institute stakeholders. It brought together President Gerard Saillant, his news, features and interviews from Special Advisor Richard Woods, the FIA network around the world, FIA Director of Communications informing members of important Norman Howell and supervised projects across the organisation. by me. The joint publication will I feel this is a significant step continue to expand on these forward in the progress of the FIA successes with a quarterly magazine in engaging its resources so as to that will demonstrate all that is “There is one golden rule for me and that is when you get in your car better communicate to the world of unique, important and worthwhile motor sport and mobility what we in both motor sport and motoring. your first action must be to put on your safety belt. Without doing do, how we do it, and why we do it. Gérard Saillaint, this I would feel naked in the car.” Seven-time F1 world champion Jean Todt, FIA President President FIA Insitute endorses the FIA’s 10 Golden Rules for Safer Motoring

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strategy-focused day followed by a day of teamwork-focused workshops that allowed delegates to learn about new initiatives and development opportunities, all while sharing their own experiences. The final day was given over to a presentation by the FIA University and the closing ceremony. In his opening speech to delegates, President Todt said that the federation is to increase its commitment to member organisations in the future. “Over the next few years we will place a greater focus on how we can communicate with our members,” he said. “I have challenged the FIA Mobility department to add ‘club care’ to their two existing areas of focus – public policy and services.” The following day saw delegates treated to two keynote addresses. The first, entitled ‘Future Trends in Mobility, was delivered by strategic development expert Michael Gallis. He told delegates how in a time of rapidly changing global mobility clubs are being presented with great challenges but also great opportunities. The challenge, he said, was to find innovative ways of thinking and he added that the opportunity to do so exists in shared experience with peers and colleagues around the world. In the second address, ‘Future 004 Later, at a press conference for local safety Trends in Membership’, business and 005 media, Schumacher said that no matter First communications consultant Larry Todt and Schumacher how skilled a driver you may be there is Hochman focused on how clubs could always room for improvement. UAMK Road Safety get the most out of the opportunities Day in Prague saw “I’m lucky in that I know a little bit presented to them. Success, he said, will take centre stage at FIA President Todt and about how to drive but still I know there Michael Schumacher be best realised by properly engaging is always potential to improve safety on address both a with members and communicating with Conference Week the roads, through awareness, better 15,000 crowd (top them constantly. A highly successful FIA Conference Week in Prague driving skills and also simple things such left). Elsewhere, the As he explained: “It’s not about as safety belt use. unique event gave the customers being loyal to you, it’s about was used by FIA President Jean Todt and Formula “I think the FIA has taken the public a chance to get what are you doing to be loyal to your One champion Michael Schumacher to deliver the initiative on this with its 10 Golden involved in a range of best customers, gauging what they want Rules, which give you some very simple road safety-themed and need.” FIA’s safety message to over 15,000 Czechs demonstrations, guidelines on how to drive safely,” he and informational Day three saw the conference divide added. “There is one golden rule for me exercises. into a series of 16 workshops, all of and that is when you get in your car your which offered delegates the chance first action must be to put on your safety to explore new thinking and to learn PRAGUE Attending the Road Safety concern of everyone. He added that belt. Without doing this I would feel from the experience of colleagues from Day organised by Czech club UAMK as the FIA’s Golden Rules are especially naked in the car.” around the world. part of its hosting of FIA Conference relevant to young drivers and he said President Todt also took the Other activities during the week Week recently, FIA President Jean Todt that education on road safety was of opportunity of the week in Prague to included a visit to Skoda’s major and special guest Michael Schumacher paramount importance. take the safety message to the corridors manufacturing facility in the Czech highlighted the federation’s 10 Golden Joining the FIA President on stage, of power at a meeting with Czech Republic for a glimpse into the future of Rules for Safer Motoring, urging the seven-time champion President Vaclav Klaus, organised by the automobile, a glittering gala dinner Czech people to embrace the FIA’s road Schumacher also referenced road safety local club ACCR. He presented the Czech and also a well-received workshop from safety guidelines in a bid to reduce education for the young in his message leader with a FIA Action for Road Safety- the newly constituted FIA University. road traffic fatalities and injuries in the to the crowd. branded Schuberth helmet and briefed Titled ‘Smart Advocacy’, Luis Vives, country. “For all you young people who President Klaus on the Golden Rules. Director of International Education and Road Safety Day saw Prague’s historic are sometimes maybe feeling a little Taking the theme of ‘Changing Professor of Strategy at Madrid’s ESADE Wenceslas Square transformed into a overconfident on the road, you should Gears for the Future’ Conference Week business school, explained that even traffic safety showcase for a day, and think about who else is out there at itself utilised a shorter, more targeted though a club’s cause may be worthy, addressing a 15,000-strong crowd at the same time – pedestrians and other schedule of meetings, workshops and it is not guaranteed to succeed and he the event, President Todt reminded drivers,” he said. “We need to look after activities that saw delegates move helped delegates understand how they the Czech public that road safety is the them as well as ourselves.” from a first day of orientation to a can best campaign at government level.

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Eurotest: service stations still failing families and the disabled BRUSSELS the Eurotest inspection of motorway Service Areas has delivered its findings for 2012 after visiting 65 motorway service areas and truck stops in 13 countries in January and February of this year. the latest study, the 12th such test, revealed that more than half of service stations surveyed attained a rating of ‘good’, while 27 were deemed to be ‘acceptable’. this compared favourably to last year’s study, when slightly less than a third of the stations tested were rated as good. 006 However, despite improving results, 007 inspectors reported that there remain serious problems with high prices, low pedestrian safety in outdoor facilities and, in particular, a real lack of quality services for families and for the disabled. through Eurotest – an international testing programme for consumer protection – 18 automobile clubs in 17 countries, members of the FiA, have been putting the quality and safety of mobility in to the test since 2000 the prospect of key roles in the country’s for the benefit of their members and all Ben Sulayem planned future as one of the world’s mobile consumers in Europe. leading sporting destinations. Each inspection considered 110 honoured with Ben Sulayem, who is also vice different ratings across a number of president of the World motor Sport different categories. the most important doctorate Council, received the honorary doctorate was catering, followed by parking during a colourful graduation ceremony sanitary facilities, family-friendliness, BELFAST mohammed Ben Sulayem, the which also saw 500 university graduates hygiene, price, shopping and access. President of the Automobile and touring earn their degrees in front of the Lord Almost half of the motorway service at yOUr Club of the UAE, has been granted an mayor of Belfast, Gavin Robinson. areas inspected were found to be either serViCe? honorary Doctorate of Science by the Addressing the students Ben Sulayem ‘expensive’ or ‘very expensive’, with the The latest Eurotest University of Ulster in recognition of said: “You’re now ready to embark on price for standard items, such as soft survey of motorway his services to sport, civic leadership the next phase in your life. Aim high, drinks or chocolate, often found to be service areas reports and charity. Ben Sulayem has been the and enjoy it. the fact that i stand here twice the normal retail price, especially that while there have driving force in the establishment of a before you in Belfast demonstrates the at service areas in Western Europe. been improvements Bachelor’s degree in Sports management great power of sport. How else would However, there is still room for across Europe, many problems still exist, for Emirati students in a link-up between this UAE national be here today but for a improvement across all categories in such as overpricing the Higher Colleges of technology in the career as a sportsman and a relationship Europe. As well as more moderate of standard items in UAE and Ulster (see feature, pages 38-41). with ireland stretching back over 30 prices, the survey said motorway service service station shops one of the goals of the course is to years? Sport has forged strong links areas need to provide better facilities for and the lack of good give young Emiratis a chance to study in between us. Sport keeps us together. it families, increased pedestrian safety and facilities for families the UAE for a university degree offering breaks through barriers.” barrier-free access for the disabled. and for the disabled.

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Road Patrol service FIA welcomes EU The FIA’s first personnel taking part Women in Motorsport in a recent contest emissions limits Ambassadors (left to organised by the FIA. right) , , BRUSSELS The FIA has welcomed the Michèle Mouton and European Commission’s proposal to Maria de Villota. limit CO2 emissions to an average of 95 grams per kilometre (g/km) for cars and 147g/km for vans, saying that it will reduce costs and improve efficiency. “Quite apart from the important environmental savings expected, new limits could save the average motorist hundreds of euro annually”, said Werner Kraus, FIA Region I President. “The European Commission is providing an important incentive for industry to develop clean technologies that will benefit all who are interested in sustainable mobility in terms of both cost and the environment. With rising oil prices, the new limits should allow families some much needed relief in terms of fuel costs”. The European Commission says that the 2020 target for cars of 95g CO2/km implies reductions in annual fuel consumption to private users and business owners of 27 per cent compared with the 2015 mandatory target of 130g. For an average car, the Commission estimates the consumer 008 will save some €340 in the first year, 009 and a total of €2904-€3836 (depending on the price of fuel) over a car’s average lifetime (13 years), as compared with the 2015 target. The higher the oil price, the greater the overall savings will be. The FIA is not, however, in favour of the proposed re-introduction of The mission of the ambassadors is to the world who are high achievers in Croatia’s HAK super credits which would allow First FIA spread the message about what women our sport,” she continued. “It is our motor manufacturers to offset high can achieve in motor sport. job and that of our co-ordinators and gears up for Road consumption vehicles with electric ones, The announcement came at the ambassadors to try to remove barriers arguing that this has the potential to Women in end of the WIM Commission’s first that may exist and to demonstrate that significantly water down the proposal, National Co-ordinators’ Seminar. This gender is not an obstacle when you want Patrol contest as the current emission calculations for Motorsport brought together representatives from to succeed in your chosen field.” electric vehicles do not take into account the FIA’s national sporting authorities Monisha Kaltenborn added: “Women SIBENIK Road assistance remains the core activity of the majority of FIA clubs and the origin of the electricity used. from around the world, providing the nowadays do have the competence, is one of the first services many members associate with their club. Ambassadors opportunity to discuss issues that affect the self confidence and the education As part of the FIA’s commitment to aiding member clubs in improving these women in motor sport with a view to to follow a professional career in any services, the Region i office of the federation organises an annual Road Patrol announced putting in place strategies designed area they choose, but still they need contest in which club services pit their skills against each other in a series of roadside to promote education and training the right opportunities to achieve their assistance tests. PARIS The FIA Women in Motorsport worldwide. goals. The challenge now is to develop Each test is aimed at improving the theoretical and practical knowledge of road Commission last month announced “We need ambassadors – role the platforms for them, so they have patrol personnel in identifying and solving technical failures. During the event, the its first ambassadors to represent the models – women who can represent the equal chances to show their abilities in road assistance service of each participating club is benchmarked against those of body around the world, as it continues commission internationally, spreading all business areas they are interested in, other FIA clubs. In this way the contest helps keep clubs up to date with the latest to promote and encourage women’s our messages and actions,” said Mouton. which may include motor sport.” developments in road assistance. participation in motor sport. “Our ambassadors represent excellence Since the announcement of the This year’s contest will take place in Sibenik, Croatia and Region I Director The five named were Michèle in different sectors of the sport. They are programme the commission was shocked General Jacob Bangsgaard urged clubs to get involved. “We would like to encourage Mouton, the President of the high profile, professional and influential and saddened by the serious accident FIA Region I Clubs to participate in this year’s event,” he said. “The contest is a great Commission; Monisha Kaltenborn, women with a voice in our sport; they involving Maria de Villota while testing way to test their skills in the key areas of breakdown repair such as mechanics, first CEO of the Sauber Formula One team; are proof that where there is a desire, for the Marussia Formula One team in aid, stress resistance, and customer relations.” Susie Wolff and Maria de Villota, test there is the possibility to succeed. the UK. The thoughts of the commission This year’s contest takes place between 12-14 September and for more details drivers for the Williams and Marussia F1 “Our ambassadors are also proof that are with Maria and her family and it will concerning registration, go to the FIA Region I website at www.fiaregion1.com or teams respectively and IndyCar driver women can be successful, and there are endeavour to give her all the help it can in contact Ms Sinziana Gille, FIA Region I Events Manager at [email protected]. . a whole host of other women around the future.

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eCall is a technology whereby, in the event of an accident, a car automatically relays crash information to emergency services.

Todt calls on EU to set tough road safety targets PARIS Following EU approval of a vision of the automotive sector’s report into the future of the European competitiveness in the 21st Century, automotive industry that focuses on and which takes many positive steps maintain a competitive manufacturing with regard to improving road safety base and ensuring the development of and the lowering of emissions,” he said. sustainable technologies, FIA President “All stakeholders must work together to Jean Todt has called on the EU to do make sure our future mobility is safer, promote more ambitious road safety cleaner and more affordable for all. targets in the future. “We would like to see more ambitious 010 The CARS 21 High Level Group road safety targets coming out of the 011 meeting involved representatives of CARS 21 Group in line with those set EU Member States, trade unions, the for the UN Decade of Action one year automotive industry and the European ago,” he added. “We cannot forget that Commission, and the report it endorsed as many as 1.3 million people are killed now represents the EU’s strategy for the on roads each year around the world European automotive industrial sector and another 50 million injured. This is a to 2020 and beyond. global tragedy. However, despite the report featuring “Through the FIA’s Action for Road recommendations on sustainability and Safety campaign, the FIA is working road safety, President Todt said more with the support of our member Clubs could be done on safety in particular. to play our part in meeting the Decade’s “We can be proud of adopting a ambitious goal to save five million lives report which represents a positive on the world’s roads in 10 years.”

BRUSSELS The FIA has welcomed the minutes. It is estimated eCall will save Commission as soon as possible. The decision by Europe’s MEPs in favour up to 2,500 lives in Europe every year. FIA also supports the commitment to Region IV gets FIA of the mandatory introduction of eCall The system is ready to be deployed providing an eCall service based on technologies by 2015, a recommendation across Europe and the European strict data protection rules. connected welcomes that also supports a platform allowing Commission is reinforcing efforts to “The report is clear that the main for open competition between different speed up the use of this life-saving purpose of the system is to improve LATIN AMERICA Region IV of the FIA has launched two state-of-the-art content- service providers. technology. It says that parallel action incident management. It will not be posting tools for the internet and mobile platforms. These new assets can be used MEP’s The inclusion of an open market as by member states, car manufacturers, used to monitor a person’s movements to access both national and regional services provided by the region’s member a way to drive down cost and increase telecoms operators and emergency or location unless that person has clubs. The new developments are designed to enable greater interaction with social uptake was a key argument in the FIA’s centres is now needed to ensure that the been involved in an accident,” said networks, creating a permanent link between clubs and their members. eCall bid to make eCall mandatory. system will function across Europe by Jacob Bangsgaard, FIA Region I The new mobile application provides useful real-time information, enabling An electronic safety system, eCall 2015. Currently less than one percent Director General. “MEPs have voted free-flowing communication with smartphone users, who will have access to an automatically informs emergency of European motorists have vehicles overwhelmingly in the interests of ongoing service offering that includes road safety advice, updated information on decision services in the case of a serious equipped with emergency call systems. the consumer and road safety. Only agreements between automobile clubs, discounts for members and news regarding automobile accident. Even if the driver The FIA is backing calls from MEPs legislative action by the European mobility initiatives. is unconscious, the system will inform Olga Sehnalová and Dieter-Lebrecht Commission will ensure that the Additionally, a Quick Response (QR) code allows users to instantaneously store rescue workers of the crash’s location, Koch for their report to become the emergency service infrastructure of information by scanning the barcode with their mobile phone camera. For more and EMS teams can be dispatched within model for a legislative proposal by the Member States is ready for 2015.” information visit m.fiaregion4.com.

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by F1 track designer Hermann Tilke. In Count Marcus von order to keep ’s green lobby SUPERCARS Oeynhausen-Sierstorpff, whose Bilster Berg happy, the project included a tower for Drive Resort is due to bats, a pond for amphibians, and the open this summer. reforestation of the local area. The old munitions stores are being converted into garaging for exotic automobiles. the last Investors in the project will get 80 days when they can drive on the circuit and a share of the profits generated. “The track is constructed under high resort FIA safety standards,” says the Count. “It With the cost of ownership spiralling and public will have facilities allowing us to operate like a race track, with two pit lanes, pit opinion stacked against their use, supercar boxes, race control, and so on, but it owners are increasingly being forced to drive isn’t a race track. We will not have any their ultra-expensive prized possessions behind facilities which suit big race meetings. closed doors. InMotion looks at the rise of the No grandstands and no big parking lots. So it is better to call it an ‘automobile private sports car resort country club’.” He adds that the inspiration came from several different places. “The main inspiration came from Lord March and what he has done at Goodwood in the UK in recent years. The country clubs one can find in the US gave a good inspiration. We definitively do not want just to copy Goodwood. What is being established at Bilster Berg is something brand new for Europe. “The topography of Bilster Berg and the fact that it is surrounded by forest, 012 These are interesting times for the Chicago, was a 3.27-mile track, and there which guarantees a high privacy, makes 013 automotive world. Sales are booming were plans for an elegant clubhouse, it an ideal location for the industry in the developing world, but in the restaurant, swimming pool and health for testing new vehicles. The scenic, , the Federal Highway spa. It was a scheme before its time, park-like appearance makes it an ideal Administration reported recently that however, and failed. location for launching new models to the the percentage of youngsters with a The idea, though, was not forgotten market on an absolute premium level. So driving licence is plunging, with 26 per and in the early 1990s Japanese golf the industry is definitively a key target cent of 14-34 years not having a licence, club mogul Hajime Tanaka applied the customer. But also track day promoters compared to 21 per cent a decade ago. logic of his bread and butter business to can be found in our customers list. The A second study, by the University automobiles and invested $100 million 2012 season is already sold out!” of Michigan, reveals that the under in a private race track at Aida in the The private members, who each 30s now account for just 22 per cent western Okayama prefecture. He offered bought shares at €100,000, have use of of all licensed drivers, down from 33 memberships at $100,000 and sold 350. the track eight weekends a year and two per cent in 1983. Could it be that the The idea was continued in the US How much does it cost to afternoons each week.

driving licence is no longer the symbol mages with Aspen Racing and Sports Car Club, “Almost all our shareholders are I run a supercar? of independence it once was? Are the which opened in 1994 with memberships entrepreneurs from various sectors,” young being priced out of car ownership of $30,000, plus an annual fee. Today, A Lamborghini Aventador (above) costs says the Count. “One thing they have in approximately €300,000. The car requires the

by high running costs? Or are people ourghini. there are more than a dozen motoring common is that they all are petrol heads b attention of a mechanic every 7,500 miles,

simply no longer willing to buck the am country clubs in the United States, which which equates to about €6,000 per year. Tyres owning several cars, which they can environmental trend that says cycling offer members the chance to drive at are not cheap either and owners can expect to store and drive at Bilster Berg. and public transport are the future? whatever speed they like. Memberships replace a set every two years (with light use). “We have almost sold all shares – One thing that is clear is that habits (Above) An aerial view of Germany’s Bilster such vehicles – speed and the thrill of can cost as much $100,000. You won’t see change out of €3,700 for new only four remain. This owners group are changing. The sale of supercars may Berg Drive Resort, membership of which costs driving on the limit. Indeed, The world’s Europe has been much slower to rubber. So, at the very least, you’re looking at will surely have a lot of pleasure. To be unaffected by the new trends, but the €100,000. (Below) Club cars are lined up for fastest production car may be able to follow suit, although Dutchman Klaas about €10,000 per year before you even put offer this enjoyment to a larger well- growth of supercar clubs suggests that members’ use at ’s Ascari Race Resort. rocket along at 267mph, but speed limits Zwart developed his Ascari Race Resort, fuel in it, which in terms of consumption isn’t off group owing not only beautiful but scari, Bilster Berg, L Bilsterscari, Berg, even those with a taste for speed are on public roads mean that in many near Ronda in southern Spain, in order actually that bad when compared with others also fast cars we are about to initialise of its ilk. The Aventador’s combined figure of baulking at aspects of their ownership, countries a supercar is a sure way to to attract customers for his road cars. a Bilster Berg Drivers’ Club. As we are 17.2l per 100km, means a trip from Paris to most notably the restrictions placed huge fines, the loss of your licence, and Now, however, the idea is coming Chartres in France will cost around €30 – a at the very beginning I cannot say too upon regular road use and the often even the confiscation of your car. to Germany, where Count Marcus von little more costly than the €8.40 it would cost a much at this point of time but it will be poor conditions of those roads when Back in the early 1960s the very Oeynhausen-Sierstorpff, who runs a VW Polo Bluemotion to do the same trip. a members-only club comparable to a they do turn a wheel on normal roads. first members-only motoring country string of golf, spa and wellness resorts, is Scrapes in a supercar are also expensive. A golf club membership with special offers Surely then, it would be better to club began in the US. The Meadowvale opening the Bilster Berg Drive Resort. Lamborghini Murcielago front bumper costs an for track use, personal coaching and car reserve your prized possession for roads International Raceway at Carpentersville The former NATO ammunition depot impressive €12,500, while a McLaren SLR maintenance. The number of members

dedicated to the design ethic behind in Illinois, 40 miles to the north of Baedeker, A Jan photography: has been turned into a racing circuit headlamp assembly will set you back €4,350. is of course limited.”

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ICELAND ROAD SAFETY FIB KNA Educational Programme for Speed is a Profession Members of Parliament A programme run by KNA in There are 63 MPs in Iceland. Only association with other three have any knowledge of the stakeholders in which the TAKING UN Decade of Action for Road Norwegian Armed Forces will Safety. For improved road safety, promote a speed awareness it is essential to educate them campaign and training across a GLOBAL properly. two-day course. UK UK LITHUANIA KOREA CAA IAM AA LAS KARA Bike Safety Campaign Kit Why do older drivers have more The AA Charitable Trust Safe & Educated Double A Project: Attention and An educational project to instruct ‘failed to look’ crashes? A Drive Worldwide Campaign An informative campaign on the Action Programme for Action for ACTION members on safe cycling simulator-based study Two courses – Drive Smart and dangers of not using vehicle child Road Safety The FIA recently announced the recipients practices, while encouraging The creation of an accessible Drive Safe – aimed at developing restraint systems and also an A strategic marketing campaign, of the fi rst tranche of funding to be positive co-operation between information source on older a template for international roll- educational campaign on the use aimed at using mass media to cyclists and motorists. driver behaviour, focusing on the out for safe driving and road of traffic rules for school children publicise a device to monitor the awarded through its Road Safety Grant most common forms of crash safety. and teachers. behaviour of motor vehicle users. Programme. InMotion looks at the 22 suffered by the target group. schemes approved for aid JAMAICA GERMANY INDIA JAA RACB ADAC WIAA The Jamaica Automobile Action Accelerate your experience and On-board Rescue Sheet – Vehicle simulators for driver Project get safer – 2012 Development and co-ordination training An educational programme An educational programme in different European countries An educational programme aimed at involving young people aimed at providing novice drivers The On-board Rescue Sheet aims aimed at improving the quality in the road safety agenda, leading with a framework that will allow at putting vital information, of drivers in India. The club will in turn to a decrease in road them to gain driving experience currently not available inside also support the creation of a fatalities for all road users in in an environment where risks vehicles, all over Europe. driver education system in Jamaica. are limited. Western India. 014 The FIA recently announced that having grant programme supports projects 015 received an endowment from the FIA that strengthen the FIA Mobility Club Foundation it would institute a Road network through knowledge exchange ECUADOR FRANCE UNITED ARAB EMIRATES Safety Grant Programme to fund club and the sharing of information about ANETA ACP ACA ICAUAE Travelling Road Unit for Traffic One Safety Minute Senior Drivers training Immediate Care Association for projects aimed at saving lives on the road safety among clubs. The grants Accident Prevention the United Arab Emirates world’s roads via a variety of safety also support schemes that enhance local A cartoon show on road safety, to As part of the 2012 European Year schemes. Over the next three years, €4.5 and regional capacity building and that A training programme for be broadcast twice a day from for Active Ageing and Solidarity A partnership with the local children aged between 6 and Monday to Friday throughout the between Generations, the club ambulance service concerning a million in grant aid will be distributed, develop innovative and sustainable road 17 in road safety education. year on SIC (Portugal’s national will conduct an awareness and volunteer medical system to deal and the federation recently revealed the safety initiatives. open signal TV station). incident-prevention process at the roadside with traffic first recipients of the funding. This year’s grants were decided upon urging senior drivers to analyse collisions in the UAE. With €1.5 million available this year, by the Secretary General for Automobile their competence to drive. the FIA has awarded grants to a total Mobility and Tourism, supported by the of 22 projects, including a road safety FIA Mobility Secretariat, but in future campaign for school children in Bosnia the approval process will include the PERU BOSNIA AND ROMANIA TANZANIA TACP AAT CAMS Herzegovina, which will involve road FIA Programmes Committee, a newly HERZEGOVINA ACR The Road Safety School Bus Peru BIHAMK One Second for your life! Safer Road User and Safety CAMS Ignition - Pacific traffic education lectures, quizzes, and established body, with representatives Road Safety for school children Vehicles the dissemination of information aimed from around the globe. A public awareness and A programme involving the CAMS Ignition is an educational educational campaign aimed at in Bosnia and Herzegovina A seven-month pilot project in programme designed for 12 to at educating the youngest traffic users. “The programme is looking for setting up of 50 traffic education increasing road safety awareness A road safety campaign for laboratories in 30 schools in Dar es Salaam aimed at training 18-year-old learner and pre- There will also be funding for a seniors’ innovative ideas,” says Ortrud Birk, in Peru, starting with schoolgoers school children involving road seven hundred unlicensed and learner drivers. driver-training programme in France; the FIA’s Director of Public Policy Romania. Aimed at pupils and aimed at teaching 33,000 traffic education lectures and the between 7 and 15 years of age. new riders of the three-wheel/ a bike safety campaign in Canada and and Services. “We want them to add children per year. dissemination of informational- two-wheel local taxis even an educational programme for value to club road safety activities and educational materials. known as Bajaj. Members of Parliament in Iceland. to represent an approach that could The Automóvel Club de Portugal potentially serve as a pilot project to (ACP), meanwhile, has been awarded a test a concept for adaptation by other CROATIA AUSTRALIA HAK AANT grant in order to create a series of road clubs around the world. We were looking Educational Programme Groote Eylandt – Road and Driver safety cartoon shows to be broadcast for properly structured projects which for Children Development Project in The twice a day on the country’s TV stations would provide a positive reflection on A road safety education Northern Territory in an effort to save lives. In the UK, there the FIA as a global road safety leader and campaign for school children A commitment by AANT and other will be a simulator-based study of why make roads safer for people.” through the method stakeholders to improve road older drivers have more “failed to look” The funding is not to cover the project “learning by experiencing”. infrastructure in the Groote crashes. costs in full, but a successful project will Eylandt area to raise the mobility The awards have been made in line get up to 60 per cent of its total costs of the indigenous community.

with a strict set of criteria and the from a grant. SHUTTERSTOCK 9 REX FEATURES 4, PHOTOGRAPHY:

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streets of California, although all remain them to be productive, connected and (Main pic) The autonomous driverless cars manned by trained drivers ready to take Bowler Wildcat developed entertained while in their vehicles,” says the controls if problems occur. However, by Oxford University. Mike Van Nieuwkuyk of JD Power. the only accident recorded to date was at (Below left) What Google’s “Consumers are still learning about a traffic light when a Google car was hit automated car sees and how autonomous driving technology by a driver not paying attention. (below right) the company’s could be used. Many owners are “The vast majority of accidents are self-driving Prius. sceptical about releasing control of DROP THE due to human error,” says California their vehicle and would like to see the state senator Alex Padilla, who technology proved before they adopt it.” introduced the legislation. “Through The highest interest in the technology the use of computers, sensors and comes from urban-dwelling males PILOT other systems, an autonomous vehicle aged between 18 and 37. Those who With a number of automated car programmes is capable of analysing the driving own premium cars are more interested environment more quickly and in the new technologies, but while moving beyond the experimental stage in recent operating the vehicle more safely.” some vehicle owners see the benefit months, are the days of human-controlled vehicles Researchers at Britain’s Oxford of autonomous driving as taking the numbered? InMotion investigates University have also announced plans control away from careless, distracted to introduce a driverless car, a much- drivers, others see it as an opportunity modified Bowler Wildcat, that has been to enjoy time spent travelling. retrofitted by BAE Systems with fly-by- Car enthusiasts are less impressed. Self-determining machines are all the director Tom Robinson. “For the first wire control systems, high-performance They see the technology as something rage at the moment, be they drones time we have been able to demonstrate computing payloads and sensors to read that will rob them of the pleasure that undertake unmanned missions in a convoy of autonomously-driven the terrain around them. The Mobile of driving and feel that buying such war zones, robotic medical equipment, vehicles following a lead vehicle with its Robotics Group at Oxford is asking the machinery would constitute a loss of or trains that run without drivers. professional driver, in a mixed traffic British government for permission to use status. Other less radical drivers would The automotive world is following the environment on a European motorway.” the cars on the open roads, with trained prefer the option of autonomous driving developments but there are questions In the United States, meanwhile, drivers on board, just in case. for the commute, on highways or when that need to be answered as robots begin Google has developed an autonomous Germany, too, has got in on the act, going shopping or looking for a parking to take over from the humans. Toyota Prius, while the state of Nevada with Berlin’s Free University showcasing space, but they still want to be able to There are an increasing number of has recently passed a law regulating the MIG (‘Made in Germany’) driverless switch off the system in order to enjoy cars being developed that have some autonomous vehicles and issued the car at the city’s Tempelhof Airport in driving when they feel like doing so. self-driving functionality, although first red license plate to Google, so 2010, a demonstration that led project The survey suggests that while the 016 cars coming on to the market do only a that its experiments can continue on scientist Paul Rojas to dub piloted cars additional costs of autonomous vehicles 017 fraction of what is possible. Automatic public highways. Across the state line in as “the horses of yesterday”. Rojas might have an effect on the number of parking is useful, as are systems that California, the state senate has recently went on to add that automated vehicles buyers, commuters who live in the same sense impending collisions and brake voted through a law that defines exactly could be used in large quantities by neighbourhoods may club together automatically to avoid them, but it is just what an autonomous car is and opens private organisations such as airports to buy such vehicles, while retaining the tip of the automated iceberg. the way for further regulation. Google’s within five to 10 years and that in cities their traditional cars for pleasure Last month in Barcelona, Volvo driverless cars have clocked up more obstacles to autonomous car use could driving. Having said that, there are legal demonstrated an ‘autonomous road than 400,000km of running on the be removed within 20-30 years. questions that need to be addressed. train’ with a series of different models “Autonomous cars the real ‘green’ What happens, for example, if a in the Volvo range following a truck cars,” he added. “We could use a police officer wants to pull over an through the Spanish city. The Safe Road fraction of the cars that we now have.” autonomous vehicle? What sort of Trains for the Environment (SARTRE) However, while scientists are getting insurance would be required and who project has developed vehicles that use excited about the possibilities, it remains would be liable in an accident? Drivers cameras, radar and lasers to monitor the to be seen whether the public will jump cannot be held accountable if a crash lead vehicle and surrounding traffic and on the automated bandwagon. People occurs as they are not in control, thus wirelessly-linked computers that allow like to drive and autonomous vehicles the liability would become a problem them to safely follow the truck, which take away the control of acceleration, for the manufacturers. Also, because acts as the ‘locomotive’, at speeds up to braking and . A recent survey such vehicles rely on global positioning 85 kmh with a distance of about 20 feet by JD Power and Associates, based on satellite data the vehicles would in between the vehicles. responses from more than 17,400 vehicle d theory be vulnerable to others taking f or “We covered 200 kilometres in one owners, found that while customers x control of them. O day and the test turned out well. We’re are in favour of wireless connectivity f Some of these questions were raised really delighted,” said SARTRE project systems, personal assistance safety in a legal symposium in January at Santa ersity o

manager Linda Wahlström after the test. services, enhanced collision mitigation, v Clara University in California, which i “People think that autonomous driving and surround-view rear-vision cameras, n concluded that the legal challenges a, U a,

is science fiction, but the fact is that the only 20 per cent would “definitely” or d may be harder to overcome than the a technology is already here.” “probably” purchase a fully autonomous v technological ones. Thus far, SARTRE vehicles have vehicle. When price was taken out of the “Why would you even put money into

covered more than 6,200 miles since equation, that figure rose to 37 per cent. Ne DMV , developing it?” says Gary E Marchant, P 2009, although a driver rides in each “While vehicle owners remain very F director of the Center for Law, Science vehicle in case of trouble. interested in technologies that make and Innovation at the Arizona State “This is a very significant milestone Berlin Free University’s Prof. Paul Rojas, who their vehicle safer, they are turning University law school. “I see this as a in the development of safe road train in 2010 said: “in the future it will be forbidden, their attention more and more toward huge barrier to this technology unless

technology,” added SARTRE project for safety reasons, for people to drive cars.” features and technologies that allow photography: A there are some policy ways around it.”

inmotion | July 2012 July 2012 | inmotion INDEPTH Driving into the 018 Golden 019 Age With 30 per cent of the driving population likely to be categorised as ‘senior’ in the near future, how is the automobile industry responding and will it be enough to cope with the rise of the ‘oldsmobile’? INDEPTH Catering for INDEPTH ripples in most corners of society, explains. “The suit also useful to older drıvers including the automotive industry. imposes physical younger drivers – While older drivers have been around limitations on if not to the same for as long as the automobile, this movement. Having extent. is a concept particular population bulge has a our engineers It’s a point of history of remodelling society to fit understand this view espoused its needs. In mobility terms it is the is particularly by Joachim that didn’t first generation to treat personal important for Meyer, Professor transportation as a universal necessity situations like entry of Industrial rather than a glamorous privilege. and exit form the Engineering and This is a generation retiring into a vehicle and the use Management exist 20 years world where public transportation is of pedals. at Ben-Gurion in decline, families are geographically “We can also University of the fragmented and traditional urban simulate limitations Negev, an expert ago – now centres are being replaced with a grand with eyesight, in the field of diaspora to retail park-oriented super because of course technology for suburbs. It’s an environment in which old people don’t see ageing drivers. it’s a boom few are voluntarily going to opt-out of as well as the young “Older people personal mobility. But there are issues and maybe they will don’t need anything attached to that. have difficulties Prof Joachim Meyer: “We need to test different to younger industry Medical advances aside, physical with certain types technology and keep older people in mind.” people – but the and mental degradation is still a fact of instrumentation.” things young of life. Older people tend to have Ford’s gradual evolution into designs people need older people probably need less flexibility in their joints, they that cater for older drivers has included a little bit more,” he says. “Younger suffer from desensitivity of touch and features like grab-handles that ease drivers adjust better to problems, eyesight. They can find it difficult to ingress and egress, adjustable pedal they are able to cope with failures or focus for long periods and have an positions and higher-contrast display shortcomings in design, whether that’s increased propensity for confusion systems. squeezing into a difficult space or using when faced with unfamiliar situations. “We’ve raised the H-point,” adds a hard-to-read display. Older people In most instances people simply adapt Lindner, “so the point where the hips struggle with these things – which their environment to cope with their rest when seated is higher, and we’ve basically means they benefit more from changing abilities but with personal moved to things like the automatic technology that is well-designed.” transportation, aside from the hand-brake – because in a car used by Many of the issues faced by older 020 ake a look around and showroom choice, the whole family it drivers revolve around the increasing 021 spot someone trying to sell you a car. the driver simply might be tough for a prevalence of infotainment, telematics Look for a billboard or an advertisement has to cope in the 60-year-old woman and the other portmanteau terminology in a magazine or a TV commercial. environment with to release a hand- with which the industry is currently What do you see? Or, more specifically, which they are brake that may enamoured. Professor Meyer, who who do you see? Chances are if it’s presented. Simply, have been applied previously worked at MIT’s ‘AgeLab’, an ad for a city runabout it features it’s the car that has by a younger family suggests the presence of this technology twentysomethings enjoying life in to change, not the member.” makes the question of catering for vibrant colours. An MPV ad will feature driver. Catering for Ford are not ageing drivers wider than simply a young family and for a C-segment older drivers is a alone in moving dealing with problems of vision and hatchback a mix of the two. The concept that didn’t in this direction, simple ergonomics. executive-car ad has professional people exist 20 years ago: though rarely “These issues are particularly in their late 30s or early 40s – her in now it’s a boom is this a subject important now because we have real a business suit, him possibly sporting industry. that makes major change in the driving environment, in designer stubble, fashionable spectacles Dr Achim Lindner headlines. the sense that the driver now receives and an open shirt to give a nod to his is a physician and “We know there information not only through the mildly rebellious past. a project leader at would probably be windshield but from all kinds of devices What you won’t see is the parents the Ford Research a stigma attached,” such as cameras, alert systems and so and grandparents of these idealised and Advanced says Lindner. “No on,” he says. “He or she is also receiving stereotypes. People climbing into the Engineering Centre one wants to buy a information that is not directly related drivers’ seat and grimacing from a in Cologne. He’s Dr Achim Lindner: “No one wants to buy a car that carries the to driving: it comes from in-vehicle twinge of arthritis or carefully loading one of the people car labelled ‘designed for the over-60s’ label ‘designed for navigation systems, communications shopping into the trunk while wincing responsible for the over-60s’.” systems, traffic alerts and all kinds of with back pain isn’t an image that sells Ford’s growing list of senior-friendly That applies as much to the over-60s information that wasn’t available 20 or cars – though across every segment of technologies, many of which have been as it does to younger drivers. As Pontiac 30 years ago. the automotive industry it’s the over- designed and developed with the help general manager (and later President “These technologies naturally tend 60s who are the growth market. The of the ‘third-age suit’, a device intended of Ford) Semon ‘Bunkie’ Knudsen to be introduced into higher-end cars western world isn’t far away from the to mimic the restrictions imposed by famously said in the 1950s: “You can sell first, and frequently the people who time when 30 per cent of all drivers ageing [see box]. a young man’s car to an old man, but purchase higher-end cars are older – not come from the demographic loosely “We think that up to 30 per cent you’ll never sell an old man’s car to a those drivers in the bracket marked 80 termed ‘senior’. The question people are of the [car–buying] market will soon young man.” years of age and up but certainly in the beginning to ask is ‘are we ready?’. be in the 60 plus age group and so Fortunately, it isn’t an either/or 60 plus group,” he adds. “They will be A generation of baby boomers poised it is important to demonstrate how proposition and many of the design the first exposed to these new high-end

on the brink of retirement is causing PHOTOGRAPHY: GETTY, NILS KAMPENDONK, DANI MACHLIS you feel when you are older,” he tweaks that benefit older drivers are technologies and it’s very important

INMOTION | July 2012 July 2012 INMOTION INDEPTH Older drivers INDEPTH that we understand how they will cope is broadly similar. However, when the the capability to do visual scanning; our satellite navigation systems don’t take with these new developments. system does not correctly predict what width and field of view; visual acuity, took 33% to into account the needs of older people “And that’s the main point: we need the user wants, then the performance and our ability to judge luminescence – they’ve been designed for the mass to test technology and keep older people of the older driver becomes much worse – all these things change with age and market rather than for the specific in mind before launching anything to than the performance of the younger. that’s not related to the cohort. That’s 100 % longer needs of older adults,” says Newcastle make sure it works well and that all The adaptive list then has a negative purely an age effect. It may change a University researcher Christopher people will benefit from it. That’s not effect on driver performance – so we little with better health or with medical Emmerson. always the case. When technology is have to weigh the relative advantage of improvements that may counter these to absorb “Our research is ongoing but what first introduced into cars we often find having it.” ageing effects but right now these we’ve found from our initial studies is flaws and problems that may disappear There is an argument that when the changes are givens.” that older people rely heavily on audio in later versions. The young adapt but generation that has grown up with iPods In the grand scheme of things, taking information and rarely use the visual older drivers find it difficult to deal with and TomToms reaches retirement age, slightly longer to use a menu may seem information display. In fact, the majority didn’t place the problems.” this problem will simply go away, in that trivial but given that the majority of the [portable] device on the windscreen One such problem to which Meyer their shared life experience (the cohort car crashes feature some form of driver or the dashboard, they preferred to put alludes is the increasing use of effect) with these technologies will give distraction, it takes on much more from displays in on the passenger seat or in the glove predictive settings in infotainment them an immunity to these particular significance. compartment. They felt the screen was systems. issues. Meyer argues that, while this Researchers at the University of a distraction – which links into the “We’ve found that using adaptive undoubtedly will have an effect, it isn’t Michigan Transportation Research than young fact that many older people think the lists – playlists for music, destination necessarily the whole story. Institute (UMTRI) determined that older displays are too complex and they are lists for SatNav, telephone contacts “There is a cohort effect, that’s clear, drivers’ visual demand (ie the amount unable to process all of the information etc – has a positive effect on the driving but there are age-related changes that of time they need to spend looking at drivers on them.” performance of both young and older also occur,” he says. “Our ability to the road to drive in a safe manner) is While pointing out that treating the drivers, and that their performance focus attention in spite of distractions; between 15-50 per cent higher than for over-60s as a homogenous group is a young driver – strongly suggesting to over-simplify matters, Emmerson they have less time to spend looking explains that the next task for the SUITED TO SENIORS at a navigation system, operating a research project is to investigate how climate touchscreen or simply changing Satellite Navigation systems could Developed in conjunction with the University of tinted goggles. The goggles are designed to channels on the car radio. be designed to better cater for older Loughborough, the ‘Third-Age’ ergonomic mimic declining vision (for example, from Correspondingly, those same older drivers, and then test those findings in research suit Ford has been using for the last cataracts), while also increasing sensitivity to drivers took longer (33 to 100 per cent a driving simulator. decade was developed to give the company’s glare and reducing sensitivity to blue light, all longer) to absorb information from “The intention is to examine how the young designers an insight into the physical factors associated with the impaired eyesight limitations experienced by older drivers and of older drivers. displays than young drivers. Taken visual display can be broken down and together these statistics suggest a the information provided in a simpler passengers. The ‘Third-Age’ suit is intended to give the 022 Originally developed as a tool to raise wearer (assuming the wearer is a generic dangerous problem. manner,” he says. “The question after 023 awareness of osteoarthritis, the suit’s main thirty-something engineer) the physical Older drivers, however, tend to that is how it will affect mobility: will feature are the orthoses that add bulk and capabilities of someone 30 years older. Since be better at assessing risk and self- it make these people more confident restrict movement in key joints – namely neck, the initial publicity generated by its use in regulating. Thus, many adapt their drivers? If the visual information is elbows, wrists, back, knees and ankles. They automotive design, the suit has been employed driving to reduce hazards. This presented in a more suitable format, operate in much the same way as the by a variety of other industrial concerns from manifests itself obviously – driving are they going to be more likely to look orthopaedic braces fitted to restrict movement architectural practices to kitchenware slower, avoiding peak traffic and not at it, or will they still rely on the audio and aid recovery during rehabilitation from an designers. The latest company to champion driving at night are classic examples – instructions alone? injury. Tailored to designing a car interior, the use of the suit is Boeing, who through a but also in more subtle ways, such as “If that is the case then can we alter Ford’s third-age suit also includes gloves that technology-sharing alliance with Ford used the decrease the wearer’s sense of touch, and suit in the development of the 787 Dreamliner. simply not listening to the radio, or, the audio information to be more not using in-car navigation. While that appropriate? These are complex issues may improve road safety it comes at a but ultimately it’s an area that could considerable social cost. help people drive safely for longer.” It’s a subject being studied in the It’s worth pointing out that the UK as a part of SIDE – (Social Inclusion driving, and indeed most other through the Digital Economy), a social issues, surrounding an ageing research project carried out by the population stem not from a age-old Universities of Newcastle and Dundee. problem but rather from people now The programme’s aim is to develop an being healthier and active much later in-car navigation system that better in life. In some instances technology caters to the abilities and needs of older needs to catch up with that fact drivers. Almost inevitably the media but, overwhelmingly, automotive has christened this new system ‘Granny developments that provide a safer and Nav’. more comfortable environments for SIDE’s research suggests older drivers’ all drivers are particularly useful for need to operate in a restricted comfort seniors. zone may lead to them undertaking Features such as adaptive cruise journeys that are more complex – for control, autonomous braking and example avoiding city centres. Using parking, blind spot detection, reversing in-vehicle navigation may alleviate cameras and voice control have some of their problems – though SatNav been found to be of greater benefit for systems are often unpopular with the this group than for any other. You demographic. just won’t see elderly people using them

“What we’ve found is that current PHOTOGRAPHY: GETTY in the adverts.

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FIA WRC Academy driver Timo The FIA’s WRC Academy aims to unearth the next generation of rally champions Van der Marel powers through the by providing young talent with the toughest education possible – six rounds of dust during the recent Acropolis Rally. The Dutchman finished the dUStthe . Photography: Ralph Hardwick event in seventh position overall.

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“it’s the most cost effective way to get into the WRC but not only that, it’s the Last year’s FIA WRC Academy champion Craig perfect platform for the young driver Breen in action at the to show his skill because all the cars Wales Rally GB, and (below are identical,” says Wilson, founder of right) celebrating his title Academy promoter m-Sport. “i think win. (Below left) Academy the timing is right for it now: VW are promoter Malcolm Wilson. coming into the championship and if the WRC goes as we hope and gets the recognition it deserves there will be more manufacturer interest and more need for young drivers.” For Breen, the driver who delivered that nail-biting finish at last year’s Wales Rally GB, victory in the series earned him a prize of €500,000, which has allowed him to compete in this year’s SWRC and selected iRC rounds. “i was running with a team of people who to all intents and purposes were a works team; it was a fantastic environment to be involved in,” he says. “it’s been really good; a full year’s budget does not come It was around very often. i want to continue at the pace i’m going at now; i don’t want to Academy to be a flash in the pan. i am a fi n a l e aiming to become world champion and i’m heading in the right direction.” And future world champions are exactly what the FiA wants the Academy that to deliver. michèle mouton, the FiA WRC manager, knows a thing or two about coming up through the rallying ranks 026 and you could forgive her for wishing 027 will go such a feeder series had been around back in the late 1970s. “i had to do it on my own, every year,” down in she says. “it went a lot slower than being in the Academy. i was rallying only in France and someone saw i was winning, but it took a lot of time. now, if someone rallying wins the Academy, you know they have the ability. You can see after one year has improved a lot. the chance these drivers have... the team history: managers and directors are looking after a season-long battle, one man had straight away at what they are doing on they must not have competed as a to win 17 stages to claim the crown. His stage. the most important thing is you priority driver on more than seven name was Craig Breen and he secured are driving on the same routes as the top rounds of the WRC prior to 1 January the 2011 Cup in the final split of the very drivers in the WRC championship.” 2012. the calendar takes in three last stage. His victory meant that not Run in partnership between the FiA gravel (Portugal, and ), only was he an overnight sensation but and promoter and supplier m-Sport, a two asphalt (Germany and France) the nail-biting finish also meant that the season in the Academy costs just under and one mixed-surface event (Spain), FiA WRC Academy’s inaugural year was £120,000 – an accessible price point with drivers counting their best five just as noteworthy. that compares with around £60,000- scores. For many, it will be their first Few motor sport series in the world £80,000 for competing in a national taste of gravel events, and few will have can boast competition so close you have series in a winning car. the Academy is experienced the intensity of a world to watch it through your fingers. But held over six rounds of the FiA World championship round. that is the whole point of the Academy: Rally Championship, with running time “three or four days of rallying giving rookie drivers a global platform limited in order to help keep the price involves a lot of hours,” says Kate upon which to demonstrate their skills tag affordable. All 11 drivers compete Rhodes, the FiA WRC Academy in equal machinery. With mentoring and in identical Fiesta R2s, prepared by manager. “We aimed to run about 70 support from some of the sport’s top m-Sport at their factory in Poland, with per cent distance at the opening round names and organisations – from malcolm control tyres from Pirelli. in Portugal. the drivers had to travel Wilson and michèle mouton to Ford and the drivers range in age from 19 three hours to compete in the Lisbon Pirelli – opportunities for young rally to 24 – and come from four different Super Special on the thursday, then the

drivers don’t come any bigger. continents – and in order to take part ACADEMY WRC PHOTOGRAPHY: ADDITIONAL schedule was to run all of Friday and

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we finished on Saturday at lunchtime. Alastair Fisher works on his car “There’s no better during the Acropolis Rally, while there’s a greater chance of the driver (below, left to right) getting bush getting the car to the end of the rally if formula than what mechanics training, Timo Van der the distance is slightly reduced, so more Marel in action, and Academy drivers finish. the FIA and M-Sport co-ordinator Phil Short. “the car has been designed to be strong and reliable – which is reflected have come up with.” in the volume of class wins the Fiesta R2 has had. it is quite capable of reaching Timo Van der Marel the end of a WRC rally but a full event is quite a shock to some drivers who have only competed in shorter national with [legendary press officer] Anne rallies.” Bradshaw. Phil Short summarised the A cornerstone of the scheme is the sporting issues and how to approach a idea that building future champions WRC round, while Dr tony turner of is about more than just offering the Edinburgh University spoke about sports chance to compete on the same stages science. as the likes of Sebastien Loeb or Petter “they had a full technical Solberg – and in front of the team demonstration: we produce a driver’s bosses. “there have been a lot of junior book with photos of the technical formulas for young drivers,” says components so if they break down mouton. “But the idea of this Academy while on stage they can phone our is to build a complete package. A driver engineers and both parties will be clear has to drive fast, and for his team, and on the precise nature of the problem. answer questions from journalists. they our knowledge of the WRC feeds into learn physical training; it’s a complete everything we do with the Academy. education.” “the main element was a team- When the Academy was first building exercise,” she adds. “one conceived, the idea was to run it like a aspect of this was a climbing wall. it school: there was an Academy principal was driver working with co-driver to and the regulations were called rules. help each other up the wall – and the these days the atmosphere is less strict, climber had to do it blindfolded. i had although there is a strong schedule. a go at it myself and it was surprisingly 028 For each round, three briefings difficult, but it was a great exercise in 029 are given by the Academy’s sporting communication. A really good thing supervisor Phil Short: one pre-event, was that all the drivers bonded and i one post-recce and a final debrief so any think real friendships have been formed. questions are answered. At every rally, Both m-Sport and the FiA have got a there is a chance to meet a WRC driver vested interest in the WRC; we want and ask him for advice, meanwhile these people to enjoy it and come back teamwork is tested with a wheel-change with us or with another team. it must be competition. to make sure that all the enjoyable.” competitors know their rule book, a quiz the idea of helping shape a rounded is held – how much lateness is permitted driver who is as proficient in a team between time controls? What do you environment or in front of a journalist do if you pass a car that has stopped on as he is behind the wheel, is paramount stage? – with a prizes on offer to keep the for the FiA. it’s a principle it applies drivers keen. with the FiA institute Young Driver An impressive roster of names are Excellence Academy, and all the involved in the extra-curricular activities institute’s young rally drivers have that make the Academy so much more signed up for the Academy either this than a simple rookies’ championship. year or last, including Holland’s timo Chris Patterson, co-driver for Solberg, Van der marel, now in his second year has spoken about preparation and pace- with the series. notes; m-Sport’s fitness trainer assesses “to be honest, i think there’s no their physical condition. these young better formula than what the FiA have drivers learn about everything from come up with together with m-Sport,” finding sponsorship to bush mechanics. says the 22-year-old. “this is something Along the way a strong camaraderie has that has never happened in the history formed that everyone involved in the of the WRC. the briefings are very good; Academy comments on. a lot of the people have not had any “We did two days of pre-season experience on the rallies so it’s good to training at m-Sport,” says Rhodes. at least talk to a top driver like Petter “Pirelli provided their test driver, Paolo Solberg or – they can Andreucci, who mentored them and help you out with difficult rallies or gave them feedback on their driving better preparation.” style. they did media and PR training Van der marel is being supported by

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his ASN, the Dutch KNAF, and the FIA rallying reward The second of six Academy events on “The car is fairly sees the Academy as a cost-effective way “The great thing about the the WRC calendar, the Acropolis for ASNs to promote young drivers from Academy is the prize at the end of Rally was won by (below). basic, so you have their countries. it,” says Malcolm Wilson. “The Training at the Academy includes “We have a young driver programme winner can either do the entire advice from current stars, such as to grab it by the in Holland and when I started my career 2013 FIA WRC championship in a (bottom left). four years ago, I was chosen out of Fiesta R2 or five events in a Ford scruff of the neck.” hundreds of other people,” says Van Fiesta S2000. der Marel. “I needed to do a year of “If it’s a guy who’s on the age limit Alastair Fisher to get some experience, then then he needs to get into a high I got a year of rallying in Holland. The category car as soon as possible,” next step was to the WRC with the FIA he adds. “If it’s a 21-year-old, I giving lectures on tyre management WRC Academy. Of course, my first year would put them in the R2 to do as well as supplying the rubber. Mario all of the events because the was difficult because I did not have so experience counts for so much. Isola, Pirelli Motorsport Manager, much experience – I had not driven a The chance to go to Australia and points out the importance of giving the gravel event before. I improved myself and Argentina is just drivers a tyre choice during the asphalt a lot and this year the goal is to finish in incredible. To get it any other way events so that they begin to learn how the top three.” is going to cost someone a lot of to choose from the different options Academy manager Rhodes points to a money.” available. The number of tyres is limited measured approach that the drivers are There will also be an award for on each round, so drivers need to learn encouraged to take in their first year. the best-placed rookie, who will to manage their tyres accordingly. “All the competitors know they are win a test in a Ford Fiesta S2000, It is one of the many challenges there to learn, so they do not go gunning with one-to-one tuition from one faced by the Academy’s students that is for the win if they have not done a WRC of M-Sport’s WRC drivers. helping them to quickly develop skills in event before,” she says. “They get points a way that simply wouldn’t be possible for stage wins, so it stops drivers from if they were competing as a privateer in holding on to a position and relaxing the WRC. – they obviously have to think about it “Of course they will learn quicker,” quite intently.” says Mouton. “Even if it is not the same One of the major attractions for power as cars at the top in the WRC aspiring Academy students is the it’s the same circumstances, the same opportunity to work with title-winning achievement. The FIA is pushing hard; outfit M-Sport. It is not just the it gives the WRC the possibility to have 030 Cumbrian team’s legendary profile in new drivers from all different countries. 031 the WRC that catches the attention of “I think for the FIA, for the future, young drivers, but the commitment the you need new drivers and new young company has to nurturing young driving drivers. It’s a big chance for them to be talent. around professional people who have “We first created a one-make Fiesta a lot of experience instead of being by series back in 2006,” explains Wilson. yourself in your own country.” “I wanted to create this ladder of One driver who recognises this is opportunity, which leads back to me Alastair Fisher, nephew of the late Irish starting off my rallying career in a small rallying legend Bertie, who claimed the Escort and going right the way through. first Academy win of 2012 in Portugal. “These days there is less recce time, “Ford and M-Sport’s involvement was so it’s important for young drivers to get a lot to do with my decision to do the WRC experience,” he adds. “There is important grass roots competitors are Academy last year,” he says. “If it hadn’t no way you can do the WRC events any to the FIA – “before you become a world been for the Academy I would not be in cheaper than this and I think for the FIA champion, you have to start at the the world championship to be honest. it’s clearly important to see young talent beginning” – and it’s a feeling shared by I’d probably be doing the British Rally coming through. the others involved in the Academy. Championship because any other step in “This is the second year of the Ford’s Director of Motorsport, Gerard the WRC is too expensive. Academy; last year the numbers were Quinn, is passionate about helping “This year I’ve taken my overall better but this year the competition is young drivers climb the motor sport approach more seriously and thought definitely going to be a lot closer. The ladder and the company’s involvement about it a lot more,” he adds. “I’ve put a great thing is you’ve got somebody like goes beyond the supply of a field of lot of work in. The car is fairly basic so you Michèle Mouton who takes a big interest Fiesta R2s and technical support. have to grab it by the scruff of the neck in it. That rolls down right through the “We worked closely with the FIA and get every last bit of speed out of it. whole WRC paddock, so all the team and M-Sport to make sure that this It means you really stand out if you are managers are watching. The one-make opportunity is not just a category but driving quicker than anybody else. part of it is one of the reasons why it’s a stepping stone,” he says. “The idea “It would be nice to get my foot in the successful: with one company doing being they could go through the other door in a proper world championship the cars, you know they are identical. levels in rallying and ultimately end up drive, but you’ve got to be realistic. I’m It’s very easy to see how the drivers are in the WRC. As a company it was very very focused on playing the championship developing so there is no better way for important to have the Academy linked to game and hopefully come the end of the them to get recognised.” the WRC programme.” year it will pay off, but there are ten other Mouton is keen to stress how Pirelli is also a strong supporter, people thinking that...”

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032 033 GloryWhen new FIA Single Seat Commission President Gerhard Berger was battling through the junior ranks the route to F1 was clear. Now, with the road

muddied by spiralling budgets There was a time, back in the 1980s when a young driver’s path to Formula and a plethora of competing One was very clear. An aspiring champion would graduate from karting series vying for attention, and move into . He would get the best car he could afford. If he he believes it’s time to forge had a lot of money or looked like an exceptional talent he would go on to a new and simple path race in the British championship. If not he would try to win in his own country and then get the money to compete in the annual at o

Brands Hatch at the end of each year. ss o the pyramid at the. Perhaps that would help him get a seat in the British series the following moment is very loose:. season. If a youngster was successful in Formula Ford, he would then move there are too many. up to Formula 3. There were national championships out there. championships in several European countries and also a European series. and attention between. The best drivers were to be found

either in Britain or in Europe. A driver R T oro Scuderia photography: them is split too much.

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who proved his talent in Formula 3 might be able to leap straight into Formula one, others had to take the additional step of Formula 2, or the series that followed. it was an easy system to understand, logical and clear, and the new stars were easily identifiable. British Formula Ford champions such as tommy Byrne, and mauricio Gugelmin went on to become British Formula GeRHARD BeRGeR’s 3 Champions and subsequently were ROUTe TO groomed for Formula one success. FORmUlA One over time this simple system began to Gerhard Berger’s own route to Formula fracture. Ford did not support Formula One was disarmingly simple. The son of Ford as much as it might have done and an Austrian haulage company owner, other manufacturers moved in with Berger began his racing career in their own championships. Rival series saloons, beginning with a Ford popped up and the choices grew. So too Escort, at local events around his Wörgl did the budgets, until drivers wishing home. Discovering that he had a talent for to feature in whatever was deemed driving, the future F1 star moved to single-seaters and tried his hand at first the most competitive series at the time and then at F3. It was were hostage to running costs that often in the latter of the two series that Berger approached the cost of a decent family first excelled, performing well enough to home, or two. the clarity was lost in a finish third in the 1982 German F3 plethora of competing series and the Championship. costs grew exponentially. the path to F1 The following season he raced a -Alfa for a young driver became confused and for Dr ’s RMS team and very costly. finished seventh in the European F3 Gerhard Berger was one of the few Championship, scoring two second-place who jumped straight from Formula 3 finished along the way. It led to a driver at into Formula one, along with drivers the GP where he finished third, like Ayrton Senna and mika Hakkinen. behind Ayrton Senna and Roberto Guerrera. That was a performance strong 034 now 52, Berger raced in the German enough to earn him a berth for another F3 035 Formula 3 in 1982, before moving into season, this time at the team of Italian the European Formula 3 Championship, Pino Trivellato. Berger scored his first where he drove for Dr Helmut marko, major victory in the series with a win at now one of the principle players at the Österreichring and soon added Formula on squad Red Bull Racing. another at the round in Monza. in his second year of European His F3 victories brought him to the Formula 3, Berger was helped by BmW attention of German Formula One team to break into F1, with a handful of drives ATS, run by wheel manufacturer Hans for the AtS team, which used BmW Günther Schmid. Berger tested for the engines. He proved his talent and was team at Zandvoort in Holland in late July signed by Arrows-BmW for 1985. By the 1984. A few short weeks later he made his F1 debut at the Austrian Grand Prix, following year he’d moved to Benetton- where he started 20th and was classified BmW and won first grand prix that year 12th, exiting the race with a gearbox in mexico City. problem three laps from home. It was the it was enough to attract the attention start of a 210-race career in motor sport’s of and Berger joined the italian premier series. team in 1987 where he was able to win four races over the next three seasons. His success didn’t go unnoticed at A few months later he was appointed and Nico Hulkenberg in 2005. In Todt, his former boss at Ferrari between mcLaren and he moved to ’ head of BmW motorsport and oversaw the end, a number of Formula BMW The best drivers 1993 and 1995, to establish a more team in 1990, where his team-mate was the munich company’s return to F1 championships grew out of the original sustainable structure to help youngsters Ayrton Senna. with Williams in 2000 before handing and the winners of these are still rising are all over get to Formula One and so, at last year’s Berger won three races for the Woking the job over to Dr mario theissen. up the racing ladder. the place. the FIA Annual General Assembly in New team but decided to go back to Ferrari During that period Berger also helped After leaving BMW, Berger became Delhi, Berger was named President of where he hoped to be able to be in a create Formula BmW, which kicked off co-owner of the Scuderia Toro Rosso system no the FIA Single Seater Commission. position to beat the Brazilian. He stayed in 2002 as a junior series designed as Formula One team and ran the squad in “I am doing this simply to try to give for three years and added a ninth grand a transitional first step from karts to partnership with Red Bull boss Dietrich longer does something back to the sport,” Berger prix victory, but it was a tough time ‘slicks and wings’ open wheel, single- Mateschitz from 2005 and 2008. He what it is explains. “The Commission looks at for Ferrari and Berger moved on to seater racing. eventually sold his stake to the Red Bull everything between karting and Formula Benetton in 1996 and 1997, where he the first Formula BmW championship chief and decided to take a complete supposed to do One and I find that the pyramid at the achieved his 10th and final F1 victory was in Germany in 2002 and was won break from racing. moment is very loose: there are too many before announcing his retirement from by , while later champions Last year, however, Berger returned to championships out there and attention

the sport, at least as a driver. included in 2004 ButLer thoMaS dppi, photography: motor sport to help FIA President Jean between them is split too much.

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A simple plan FIA european f3 In keeping with the idea of a holistic we are missing Formula 3, Berger’s next mission will be The Hard The difficulty for any young The first response of Gerhard Berger to feed the plan up the food chain, to the driver setting out on a career something and the FIA to the apparent confusion Road to F1 in motor sport is where to go in the progression from karting to step just before Formula One. after a career in karting. between karts senior top level racing series has been “It’s a similar problem at the next level With a wealth of series to to inaugurate a new FIA European up, with Formula 2, GP2 and Formula FORMULA choose from, and with the and formula 3 Formula 3 Championship. 3.5,” he says. “It is not as bad ONE credibility of championships Ratified at a meeting of the FIA’s World a problem as with Formula 3, but we often dependent on cost, – call it Motor Sport Council in Milan earlier need to study what is the best solution strength of grid and from if this year, the new series replaces the there and concentrate things more. You which series the last great existing FIA Formula 3 Trophy and, don’t want to dictate a new formula, you F1 hope emerged, the route according to the Federation, “is intended simply want to create a better formula, to top level motor sport is you will to become the foundation for the so the question is what does that mean? fraught with pitfalls. Take a development and progression of aspiring “Firstly, you need clever regulations WORLD SERIES GP2 wrong turn and the way back and gifted young drivers, establishing RENAULT 3.5 can be measured in years. “People are complaining that the best a clear path all the way to F1”. that create a good and equal field,” Gerhard Berger’s plan for drivers are now all spread out and so insists. “Then you need to bring the Contested over 10 rounds and currently the future of junior series is you cannot look at the British Formula 3 costs down. You see today that the using the F3 Trophy regulations, the straightforward: define Championship, for example, are say that series kicked off at Hockenheim on 29 British F3 Championship costs in the regulations for a simple he is certain to get to Formula One,” he April. Since then the series has raced at region of £700,000 (€870,000) and I sequence of steps from adds. “These days the best drivers are all Pau in France, in the UK don’t think that is the right thing for a karting to Formula One and non-European over the place: one in Formula 3, one in and at the Red Bull Ring in . The formula for youngsters. We know that GP3 let each nation, region or junior series current series leader is Daniel promoter establish a series GP3, one in and one in most of the money has to be paid by Juncadella, a graduate of Formula BMW. utilising those rules in their . The system no longer families and we know that there is not The Spanish driver has 109 points from own territory. The first step does what it is supposed to do, which is much sponsorship available, so that is FORMULA the first three rounds, which are made up was taken by the FIA before to give a highly talented driver a CV he very important.” TWO of three races per weekend. Second is the election of President can use to progress to Formula One. The new commission president is Italian driver on 103 Jean Todt and before “I went through the system myself points, with Jr, son of double also mindful of the fact that there is Berger’s appointment with and I have seen it for 30 years now and WRC champion Carlos Sr, third with 82 currently no adequate series available the foundation of Formula I am sure that I can bring something points. Upcoming races will for youngsters moving from karting to FORmula 3 Two as a low-cost alternative to the sport because of the contacts I take place at Germany’s Norisring and slicks-and-wings racing and admits he including: to the array of series existing Nurburgring, followed by a trip to just below Formula One. have made during my career and maybe would like to see the establishment of a Zaandvoort in Holland before the series 2.0 RENAULT AUTO GP Berger’s first step has been having the right strengths to help sort series similar to his old stomping ground finishes with rounds in Valencia, Spain EUROCUP WORLD SERIES to institute the FIA European out what is required.” – Formula BMW. and at Hockenheim in Germany. 036 BRITISH F3 Championship [see panel, And for Berger the first requirement of “We are missing something between 037 F3 INtL right] and the next phase will a clear path to the top of the motor sport To copper-fasten the appeal of the new karts and Formula 3 – call it Formula 4, see the former F1 great ladder is a simpler Formula 3 category. series, three new prizes will be offered at if you will,” he says. “We are working on examine the first rung on the “The most urgent thing is to sort out the end of the season. The series winner this. Obviously, I have a bit of experience will be crowned F3 European Champion ladder, with a series aimed at Formula 3,” he insists. “For me this has because I was involved in Formula BMW ATS FORMEL helping youngsters make the and will be offered a test in a Ferrari always been the most important class and that came out quite well, although it 3 CUP transition from karting to , as well as two days of slicks and wings racing. for young drivers. That is where you can testing in the FIA series. became too expensive. really see for the first time how much The series runner-up will get a two-day “I could see it was going wrong when I talent someone has. F2 test as well the opportunity to drive a left BMW. It has to be reasonably priced. FIA EUROPEAN “Nowadays there are so many DTM car, while the third-placed It has to be safe, and drivers need to F3 C’sHIP competitor will get a two-day F2 test. FORMULA ONE championships, even inside Formula learn about aerodynamics. It mustn’t 3 itself,” he says. “There are national be too complex, but it should be a REGIONAL championships holding races outside challenge, so that they can learn. That’s & NATIONAL their own countries and each series has the third project. A good guy in karting Formula EUROPEAN RENAULT F3 OPEN different regulations. Some countries should be able to win at Formula Ford C’SHIP have championships that are not very level. Formula BMW was a good formula. strong, with only eight or ten cars and It had a modern good-looking car.” FORMULA TWO others have A, B and C classes, and so It’s a simple system, though one on. And you have different engine rules fraught with complications as the FORMULA FORMULA as well. It is not Formula 3 as we knew it. interests of a number of series, all ABARTH “That is the area we are starting to competing for young driver budgets, BMW EUROPEAN VARIOUs series deal with and the first thing I did was to have to be dealt with, but Berger is introduce a new FIA European Formula insistent that motor sport must be FORMULA 3 Championship,” he says. “This is not de-cluttered and get back to basics. FORD series popular with everyone because there “I think all these side categories VARIOUS are a lot of vested interests, but I don’t disturb the system,” he says. “We should ER L care about that. We need to start with have one formula with one regulation. UT

S B S a new platform and that is the new OK, if a country does not have a strong A

M championship. enough championship then it could “It is coming together nicely. It join with another, or there can be some is important now to build strong kind of final between the top guys in KARTING FORMULA FOUR national championships with the same the different national series, but what regulations. That is the project at the we have to do it break it all down and

photography: THO moment and it will take a little time.” provide what is needed.”

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“reducing to a minimum the SAFER numBer of deaths on the BY roads needs a critical mass DEGREE of specialists.” In a world fi rst, Saint Joseph University in Beirut has prof. ramzi salamÉ established a chair in road safety, designed to tackle the region’s growing road traffi c accident problem. InMotion spoke to project chief PROFESSOR RAMZI SALAMÉ to fi nd out more

038 As the world begins to better understand the increasing problem of road traffic accidents, more and more effort is going into safety education. But teaching the world about road safety is not just about explaining the dangers. It is also about creating standards and shaping rules and regulations, and for that you need qualified experts. Nowhere is this more apparent than in North Africa and the Middle East. The Eastern Mediterranean Region of the World Health Organisation (WHO) comprises 22 countries, from Morocco in the west to Pakistan in the east. In total these nations are home to 546 million people. There is a diverse mix of countries with several very rich nations and a similar number of poor ones. The overall level of ‘motorisation’ is relatively low compared to other parts of the world, with only 4 per cent of the world’s vehicles here, compared with 8.3 per cent of the global population. Overall, there are just 96 vehicles per 1,000 people, but there are wide variations between the 20 vehicles per 1,000 seen in the occupied Palestinian territory (West Bank and Gaza Strip) and the 721 per 1,000 population in Qatar. Many of the countries have also seen Prof. Ramzi Salamé outside a significant increase in motorisation St Joseph’s University, levels since 2000 and a sharp rise in the Beirut, the first to establish

number of road accidents in the past PHOTOGRAPHY: MATILDE GATTONI a Chair in Road Safety.

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five years. The average regional road candidates who satisfy the admission fatality rate is one of the highest (32.2 Learning Curves also bringing a new, degree, but are requirements.” per 100,000 inhabitants) in the world, academic approach interested in The course is designed to prepare the While road safety is a new field of study, to our sport.” developing their resulting in 176,000 deaths every year. students to address both current and motor sport courses continue to multiply. career by enrolling WHO research revealed that only Dr David Hassan, a future road safety needs, with a state- The latest innovative programme is a on a post-graduate half of the countries have policies to senior lecturer at the of-the-art knowledge of the problems partnership between the UAE’s motoring University of Ulster’s degree. There is no invest in public transport. Only 40 and the current solutions. The initial club and the University of Ulster, and School of Sports requirement to per cent of the countries have suitable programme is expected to have around has motor sport at its core Studies, has played a attend classes and urban speed limits and seat belt laws major role in the work is undertaken 100 students and it is hoped that most exist in only 30 per cent of the nations. development of the at their normal place of them will then go into employment in In several countries there are no laws various programmes. of work, on a part- bodies that are actively involved in road obliging motorcyclists to wear helmets, “The MKI version was time basis. Our aim is safety work. while only two of the nations involved the brainchild of to be as flexible as The academic programme will be possible for people have child restraint laws and even then Mohammed Ben supplemented by an internship, linked Sulayem,” he says. employed in the enforcement of all road safety rules is industry and we will to a professional or research project poor. The statistics for seat belt usage “He recognised that and a dissertation. These research motor sport could work with them to fit are truly frightening, with figures as low programmes will cover such topics benefit from offering their academic as 5 per cent in Libya. an opportunity to studies around their as vehicle and infrastructure factors, In an effort to combat these problems interested and employment.” driver behaviour, post-crash care and and to deal with the likely increase in suitably motivated Who will qualify for a rehabilitation and will also look to road accident deaths in the years ahead, people within the place on the course? develop comprehensive data sets and Saint Joseph University in Beirut and the industry to undertake knowledge bases covering all aspects of In 2010 the University “We’re keen to hear offered at HCT in a specific piece of Renault Foundation have established of Ulster signed a from anyone who road safety. It will also analyse that data partnership with the research related to a multi-disciplinary academic and research and training feels they would be gathered. University of Ulster. their everyday research university chair and a Masters agreement with the interested in “This is a truly pioneering programme, ATCUAE, meanwhile, activities. They would programme in order to create a national Automobile & undertaking a piece unprecedented in the world in terms of started the Motorsport gain a post-graduate Touring Club of the of research leading and regional network of experts fully Knowledge Institute qualification at the its coverage of all the factors conducive United Arab Emirates to the award of a versed in road safety. (MKI). The aim is to same time. It made to road safety,” says Professor Salamé. (ATCUAE) to create Masters or PhD Saint Joseph University (known as develop partnerships perfect sense and so “In view of the lack of road safety in the the opportunity for degree. Ideally, they USJ) is a private institute founded by the with education and the University of majority of the countries of the world, it UAE-based students would have already Jesuits in 1875. Today, this non-profit research institutions Ulster worked with clearly appears as a model particularly to conduct research secured a degree organisation has 12 faculties and 21 around the world to ATCUAE to make it a for other developing regions and big at Masters and PhD from another promote an academic reality.” institutes, plus a variety of other chairs level at the University. university, but countries (India, , etc) to follow 040 and research centres on five campuses interpretation of What will the PHD someone with great the example and implement similar 041 The relationship motor sport. in Beirut, with a number of study expanded in 2011 course include? experience who does programmes.” centres further afield, including one in with the launch of the “This relationship is “We are offering not have a degree Educating those who will go on to Dubai, in the United Arab Emirates. UAE Motorsport Star unique in world opportunities at could still gain a educate and to lead the battle for better The Road Safety Chair and Masters Programme, a motor sport,” says Masters level place if we can road safety will not be the work of a ATCUAE President (leading to an MPhil) demonstrate that project is being headed by Professor competition leading moment, but Professor Salamé hopes Mohammed Ben and at PhD level,” their experience Ramzi Salamé, one of Lebanon’s to a training course that the programme will start having a at the University’s Sulayem. “It provides Hassan says. “In both equips them leading academics. Since 2008, he has significant effect on road safety in the Jordanstown campus. great opportunities cases we’re keen to appropriately for the been the principal consultant at the More recently a for the university in hear from people demands of a region relatively quickly. country’s Ministry of Education and research project has terms of research who already have an postgraduate “Achieving Vision Zero in road Higher Education. Trained initially in begun into the effects and education, while undergraduate qualification.” safety, – reducing to a strict minimum psychology, Professor Salamé studied of dehydration on the number of deaths and serious for a Masters in Montreal before going on support staff at ATCUAE President “For its part, USJ, aware of the injuries on the roads – needs a critical to get his doctorate in Canada. sporting events. The Mohammed Ben Sulayem. Global Plan for the Decade of Action “this is a truly mass of specialists in the various fields Throughout his studies he worked as next step is the for Road Safety 2011-2020, adopted tackled by road safety,” he explains. a teacher and lecturer in both Canada launch of a BSc by the United Nations, was looking to pioneering “These include regulations for vehicle and Lebanon. In 1994, he became a (Hons) degree in develop expertise in this field in order safety; safe roads and urban and rural Applied Sport senior specialist in higher education Management, the to contribute to capacity-building in programme, environments; road user’s behaviour; and training for the United Nations first course of its kind the countries of the Arab Region to regulatory frameworks for road safety Educational, Scientific and Cultural to be offered in the contribute to the implementation of unprecedented.” and law enforcement; management and Organisation (UNESCO) in Beirut. He UAE. the Global Plan. Thus, it has warmly prof. ramzi salamÉ financing of road safety. would later become acting director of The degree course welcomed the proposal of Renault CEO, “Thus, it depends how much time will the UNESCO regional bureau and of its will be taught at the , who is also member of be needed to constitute this critical mass bureau for education in the Arab States. Higher Colleges of USJ Strategic Council, to support the authorities (the Ministry of Education of specialists, how acute is the problem, “The idea of establishing a Chair Technology campus establishment of such a Chair and and Higher Education) sets the how large in the country, and so on,” he and a Masters in the management of in Abu Dhabi, with Master’s degree.” admission conditions,” he explains. concludes. road safety came at the crossroads of lecturers from Ulster Salamé explains that students will “Thus, any university graduate with at “Our hope is that the effects will thinking in Renault and in Saint-Joseph working alongside not simply be those already in full-time least four years of studies and further be progressively demonstrated and University,” he explains. “In fact, local academics. The education but will also be drawn from studies or experience is eligible for that, by the year 2020, the deaths programme is to the Renault, within the framework of its people already employed by companies the Master’s programme. As usual, and serious injuries on the roads will first of a number in social responsibility policy, has a long- the planning stages, and administrations, with the Renault the University has set a selection be clearly reduced in the countries standing commitment to road safety including a range of Foundation providing grants. committee to apply the relevant rules that will substantially participate in and is one of the founders of the GRSP post-graduate “The Master’s degree programme and regulations. However, it expects, the programme and benefit from the (Global Road Safety Partnership). programmes, to be approved by the Lebanese competent in the short term, to admit all eligible Master’s graduates.”

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This Ford Fiesta Mark IV was one of the first vehicles to be tested by Euro NCAP. It scored just three stars, with the body saying that damage could occur to knees and lower limbs. Four years later a revamped Fiesta scored four stars, with work on knee protection testing being singled out for praise by NCAP.

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from within the industry. it has never standards for cars but with a starting performance for smaller cars. doesn’t. Rather, the idea is that five- been dull. date of 1998, and 2003 set for all new For a long time the company held the “euro ncap star performance should reflect the it is well-documented that the cars. this timeframe was not quick record for the most five-star cars in its BecaMe a way For best available standards of the day, original impetus came not from the enough. in response, the FiA worked fleet. currently holds that renault to Make and as such the assessment regime is automotive industry but rather from with officials in Brussels, as well as in honour, though Renault perhaps retains saFety More periodically updated. a period of intense self-reflection in the Departments of transport in the UK the public perception of being the car “the system has migrated quite a bit motorsport. the FiA group set up to and , who shared our view that firm that outperforms its rivals in this visiBle and More from the early days,” says Euro nCAP study motor racing safety in the wake more needed to be done to create a truly particular arena. understandaBle.” Secretary General michiel van Ratingen. of the San marino Grand Prix tragedies independent testing body. As a result of “the original megane was the best carlos tavares, “i think from the original batch of tests, of 1994 wanted to incorporate into this work, Euro nCAP was set up as in performer in Euro nCAP in its time, then the automobiles of that generation its work best practice from the road. 1996.” Laguna 2 got the first five-star rating chieF operating would score very few stars today – it soon discovered a distinct lack of once Euro nCAP began producing ever,” says tavares. “Aiming for the best oFFicer, renault maybe no stars at all. best practice in this area, and thus reports, public response was hugely rating became a Renault brand policy. “the car of 15 years ago is by no means a programme that began looking at positive, suggesting the new ratings this policy is still valid today.” comparable to the cars of today. the one thing serendipitously spawned addressed a need that had previously Renault, along with Volvo, were advancements have been significant, something entirely different. not been satisfied. “From its very among the first to use the rating as in everything from stability control to Jacob Bangsgaard, FiA Director- beginning, probably because many an advertising tool. “And that was seatbelt reminders, and Euro nCAP General for Region i (EmEA) and Euro tested cars were poorly rated, Euro a pivotal moment for Euro nCAP,” has advanced with the changes. i’d say nCAP board member explains: “the FiA nCAP captured a great deal of public says Bangsgaard. “From then on, we started by being focused on crash group found that EU crash requirements audience, especially in northern car manufactures recognised that testing, whereas now we’re beginning to had not changed since 1974 and were Europe,” recalls Renault Chief operating consumers were more likely to invest in include avoidance technology into our very limited: cars which performed officer Carlos tavares. cars which had four or five-star ratings. ratings scheme very badly could pass the tests. At While the public perception was Since then the success of the programme “We’ve always added new test the same time, the car industry was positive, the response from the industry has surpassed what anyone could procedures but in the last five years, to lobbying against new safety measures was not. ‘Lukewarm’ might be the have expected. the star-rating system take into account these technologies, the ead any glossy car brochure and it on the grounds of cost. For this reason, kindest description, though ‘suspicious’ has become a recognised benchmark number of new tests has increased. it’s becomes immediately obvious this the need for an independent European and ‘hostile’ might also be appropriate. Europe-wide for safety. that recognition going to become much more challenging is the golden age of car safety. After standard was clear. “Development was not greeted so and consumer respect has given car in the years to come if we include all of five decades of fairly basic measures “the initial challenge was to create warmly by the car industry,” concedes manufacturers no option but to aim to the driver assistance systems that are the past two have seen a massive stringent European standards for cars Bangsgaard, “they lobbied against the produce five-star cars.” coming onto the market. there are a lot increase in new technology. there’s through European legislation. the new testing body, arguing that the test But what is five-star performance? of new technologies that require Euro plenty of examples on view: material campaign in the mid-90s did lead to criteria was so strict that no car could A common misconception is that Euro nCAP to expand the test suite.” Rimprovements in crumple zones, side new EU legislation with tougher safety reach the four-star rating for occupant nCAP operates a fixed standard: it in addition to his other roles, Jacob 044 impact bars and anti-submarining seats; protection.” Bangsgaard is also secretary general 045 passive electronics like ABS or electronic tavares, a former chassis engineer of eSafety Aware, an association of stability controls and latterly, new active who led various Renault small and FIVE-sTAr FIrsT international motoring organisations safety features such as lane departure mid-sized car programmes in the 1990s (including the FiA), car makers and The Renault Laguna 2 was the first car to achieve a five-star warnings and autonomous braking. admits it wasn’t the most popular technology suppliers that promote Euro NCAP rating. In particular, the assessment body hailed there are dozens of other features, all initiative: “Although based on new the Laguna’s [1] frontal airbags with two-stage inflation, public awareness of next-generation chipping away at problem areas and European regulation, Euro nCAP was which provided increased pressure in more severe accidents vehicle safety systems. As such he all saving lives. But perhaps the most not warmly welcomed because its rating and its thorax side airbag and advanced head curtain airbag is particularly keen to see these impressive safety measure of them all method forced the industry to change [2]. It also praised the driver’s seat belt [3]. This incorporated technologies represented within the is not an individual gadget, programme its approach to car design. in addition, a double pyrotechnic pre-tensioner, which along with a load- Euro nCAP portfolio. or system. Perhaps it’s the catalyst some car makers had developed limiting device prevented the driver’s knees from hitting the “it’s very important that we promote that encourages the provision of them their own internal requirements. For facia and protected his thighs. However, despite the high advanced safety technologies that can all. this year the European new Car instance, at Renault, Euro nCAP was score, EuroNCAP highlighted the fact that the car still did not prevent accidents from happening do enough to protect pedestrians, with only the bonnet Assessment Programme – Euro nCAP – is felt to be somewhat irrelevant because in the first place,” he says. “Raising offering protection. celebrating 15 years of operation. We we used to focus very much on accident awareness of these new systems is have a lot to thank it for. observation. vitally important, as we know that one Euro nCAP does not intrinsically “However, Renault’s perception 3 of the main obstacles for increased push the technical boundaries of vehicle rapidly shifted as Euro nCAP became deployment of these technologies is the safety. its claim to greatness is a knack widely acknowledged as providing lack of knowledge among consumers. for highlighting the exceptional and independent safety assessment and “Euro nCAP already hands out turning it into the ordinary. it sounds valuable information for consumers. in 1 ‘Advanced Rewards’ for vehicle counter-intuitive to say so, but the a sense, Euro nCAP became a way for 4 manufacturers who are meeting the best great success of Euro nCAP to date has “the Fia Found Renault to make safety more visible and standards in this area, and has begun been deconstructing the idea of vehicle understandable to its clients.” 2 to integrate these systems more in the safety as a USP. it has squeezed the gap that eu crash Renault’s experience was not unique, rating scheme.” between the safest car and the average reQuireMents though the French carmaker was Adding new tests into the mix is a way car until that gap barely registers. in perhaps one of those that accrued the to mitigate against the phenomenon doing so it has raised that average to had not greatest benefit from the standard of car makers concentrating on test levels many vehicle manufacturers long changed since by producing a string of class-leading scores rather than holistic safety argued was impossible. Along the way 1974 and vehicles. When the maximum score improvements. this does, however, it has informed and educated, found increased from four to five stars, it remain an area of particular criticism friends and annoyed opponents. it has were liMited” scored the first ever five-star rating with for Euro nCAP, as it does for any long- won awards and been fêted by consumer JacoB Bangsgaard, the Laguna 2 model, while the Renault established and reputable product groups, while also enduring criticism Fia region 1 modus later had a breakthrough five-star assessment programme. in education

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it’s known as ‘teaching the test’: within exception rather than the rule but that “We believe it is good thing that 1998 2004 the automotive industry it is called paradigm has neatly reversed over the most carmakers aim at getting five-star ‘cycle-beating.’ course of the past decade. It’s excellent ratings. Renault’s target is to improve The assessment is supposed to news in terms of raising the standard but road safety, not to ‘win’ the Euro NCAP evaluate the broad-brush capability it brings with it problems of its own. The ‘competition’. Euro NCAP should avoid of the vehicle but the results are concept of Euro NCAP was an assessment evolving toward an elitist approach to distorted when the manufacturer begins that would impartially differentiate cars safety based on expensive technologies designing the vehicle specifically to do on their safety performance, allowing providing marginal improvements. well in the test. It’s been a particular consumers to make rational choices Being a consumer rating, over-tightening bugbear of emissions and economy cycle with good information. That in turn was the rating criteria to reduce the number testing, but is also applicable in crash a mechanism by which market forces of five-star cars could be tempting but research. The answer from Euro NCAP compelled manufacturers to improve it could prove counter-productive if is that this simply is a price that has to safety. Faced with a vast array of five-star medium range carmakers don’t follow be paid, and a vehicle designed to have rated vehicles, from manufacturers who the trend. The main focus should be enhanced performance in testing is still prioritise such a rating in their design, placed on real-road and affordable a vehicle that will perform well in the consumer choice can’t operate effectively. safety.” real world – providing the tests are well It’s a nice problem – but it’s still a problem. In 2009. Euro NCAP announced a new designed. If anything, if places a greater “That we have too many five-star road map for its assessment programme, responsibility on Euro NCAP to make cars is a criticism we hear quite a bit,” particularly concerning the years 2010- sure its regimen is faithful to real world admits van Ratingen. “Of course that was 2015, but including ideas stretching all conditions. always the way it was likely to go: all the the way out to 2025. “Is there an element of cycle-beating? manufacturers have had time to study the “It’s a complete overhaul of the Of course there is; this is the downside protocols and design with them in mind, ratings system,” explains van Ratingen. to all standards and we are not excluded so obviously the resolution has come “The focus is strongly adding the new, 2008 2011 there,” says van Ratingen. ”I would say down. We could respond by making the emerging technologies that are going the good manufacturers develop cars tests twice as difficult but the problem to save lives in the future: autonomous for real world safety and make sure with that is it wouldn’t necessarily braking, pedestrian detection, lane they get a good rating as well. The other translate into safety in the real world – departure warning, speed assistance manufacturers with less money to spend and then we would have an issue.” technologies. All of these are already focus more on getting a good rating This loss of resolution obviously has on the market but will be rolled out in and hope that our procedures and our a detrimental effect on the carmakers more models at much higher volumes in protocols will make the cars also safe on with the best records in the field, though the coming five years. We will develop a the road. That’s quite a bit of difference speaking for Renault, Tavares echoes the ratings system where we hope to again 046 between one and the other. sentiments expressed by van Ratingen. make a distinction between vehicle 047 “The Korean car makers are good manufacturers that bring vehicles to examples: today they are very good the market with all of these systems at selling a lot of vehicles into the and make them work well, versus those European market,” he adds. “They have that don’t have all these systems and short development times and don’t therefore will deliver less safety.” allow themselves to look much beyond The success of Euro NCAP has led our protocol. Their focus is on meeting to several sister organisations in other our Euro NCAP targets – and they do regions and a healthy growth for the that very well – while not having, for ‘Global NCAP’ family. Latin NCAP has example, much involvement with recently been started, sharing tests accident research in Europe to see how and testing facilities with Euro NCAP, their cars are performing. providing assessments for the South and “That contrasts with companies like Central American market. BMW or Mercedes or Volvo, who have a It is interesting to see that cars Four rounds of Golfs legs, with the suggestion more work be done model, the new Golf was now fitted with lot of knowledge and follow up vehicles tested for Latin NCAP, graded in the around the bumpers and bonnet leading edge. driver knee airbags. For child protection on the road, so see if what they believe same way as Euro NCAP, have very Several iconic brand names have been the Golf had excellent impact tests is right, is actually delivering. There’s low scores. There are differences of constant through Euro NCAP’s history. 2004 1.6l (Golf MkV): This model scored five- and for pedestrian impact the bumper a difference there. To be really honest culture and spending power but some Volkswagen’s Golf provides a good yardstick stars for adult protection, four for child protection and three for pedestrian protection. was rated with maximum points for leg it worries us to a lesser extent because of that divergence is almost certainly of the way in which the assessment has protection and the bonnet leading edge changed over the past 15 years Added to its safety features were front seatbelt we believe that our protocols have accounted for by Europe having 15 load limiters, side body (thorax) airbags as good “in some areas”. improved and have a better reflection on years of exposure to NCAP and Latin 1998 1.4l (Golf MkIV): The Golf scored a and side head (curtain) airbags. Overall the 2011 Cabriolet: A MkVII Golf is expected to real world performance. America not. History has already started maximum four stars (as it then was) for Adult restraints and airbag system were assessed be on sale next year but for the moment the “With any new protocol we develop, “with any new to repeat. with initial manufacturer Occupant protection and two for Pedestrian as good, and side impact protection was latest Golf derivative tested is the cabriolet we really try to check whether this is protocol reluctance giving way to acceptance noted as being “impressive”. However, it was protection. Among the technology fitted to the version of the MkVI. Reflecting Euro NCAP’s driving technology that is effective also and collaboration, and already scores noted that drivers suffered knee injuries we develop, we vehicle were seatbelt pretensioners, driver post-2009 ratings revamp, the five-star Golf in the real world. There’s nothing wrong have begun to improve significantly. impacting hard points in the front fascia during Cabriolet assessment is more inclusive of and front passenger frontal airbags, and ISOFIX with meeting our protocols and trying try to check The smart money is that the pace of child seat restraints. Test notes reference a frontal impacts. For child safety EuroNCAP electronic safety measures with Electronic noted good protection for heads but had some to get a maximum score, if you’re sure whether this is improvement will be significantly good performance in frontal- and side-impact Stability Control among the noted features. concerns over chest-loads being a little high. tests. The ISOFIX system was criticised for Also noted were seatbelt reminders. ultimately that translates into real world driving quicker in Latin America than it was ‘problematic’ installation and the car taken to 2008 1.4l (Golf MkVI): The MkVI again scored The Cabriolet scored 96 per cent for adult safety.” technology.” in Europe. The reason being that the task for poor safety labelling in general. For five stars for adult protection, four for child protection, including a good score in the The upshot is a great many cars with template for success already exists. The pedestrian impact, protection was good for protection and three for pedestrian protection. new whiplash test for rear-end collisions. a maximum five-star rating. In the early Michiel van ratingen, world knows Euro NCAP works: it’s seen head impact but poor for both upper and lower Addressing a problem with the previous It scored 86 per cent for child protection. days achieving a maximum was the Euro nCap the results.

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“During that time i was also a Vice President of the Automobile Competition Committee for the United States (ACCUS) and Chairman of its legislative arm, the national Council,” he adds. in 2001, however, Craw decided to inperson leave that role and became Executive tAlKing to the people Who help Director of US Sailing. Four years later, however, he was asked to return to the Keep the WorlD oF the FiA tUrning ACCUS as its President. it led to him replacing Berdie martin on the FiA World motor Sports Council during the presidency of max mosley. He later became Deputy President for Sport, “and when Jean todt ran for the role of FiA President, i joined his ticket as President of the Senate.” the FiA Senate is a body that concentrates its efforts on the finances Drawn to motor sport by “driving the of the federation. “the Senate is charged with family Ford too fast”, nicK crAW has development and oversight of the FiA’s annual budget, its investment portfolio, parlayed a passion for speed into a risk management and major contracts,” Craw explains. “its primary mission is lifetime of racing and business success. to support the FiA President, provide transparency to the General Assembly As President of the FIA Senate he’s and to ensure that the FiA’s major initiatives are properly funded while charged with developing, at board also trying to build up its financial reserves.” level, the finances of the federation Craw is also a member of the Statutes Review Commission, which is currently 048 nick Craw could have ended up in the championship and then with developing a substantial overhaul and 049 US Senate. He did think about running Racing in the L&m Continental modernisation of FiA governance, and for public office at one point in his Championship,” he says. “this took me says that a substantial body of revisions career, and had the qualifications for the all over the US, Canada and mexico, and to the iSC has already been approved role, but his passion for motor sport was i also raced in , Colombia and the at the 2011 General Assembly. “We will such that he preferred racing to politics. UK. in addition, i did the 1972 Daytona also have another, smaller section ready After graduating from Princeton and Sebring World Championship of for this year’s General Assembly in University he joined the staff of Project makes events in a two- Chevron.” istanbul,” he adds. HoPE (Health opportunities for People His racing career continued to gather one of his other jobs is as a member of Everywhere), an international health pace and he turned professional in 1971, the Fund management Committee of the care organisation best known for its even managing, in 1973, to combine his FiA institute, which approves grants by hospital ship, the SS Hope, which, from track activities with an appointment as the motor Sport Safety Development 1960 until 1974, travelled the world director of the Peace Corps, where he Fund, with the aim of raising standards helping to improve the health of nations. looked after 7,400 volunteers in 69 in motor sport across the globe. Craw is Craw later became director of operations countries. in that same year he raced a also on the board of trustees of the FiA for HoPE, based in Washington DC BmW sports car in the international Foundation. where his love of motor sport finally motor Sports Association (imSA) series, “in tandem with all that, there is also found an outlet. taking a first win there on his way to the the work with ACCUS, co-ordinating “Like many in their youth, i always ’73 title. two years later he repeated the the FiA’s involvement in motor sport enjoyed the thrill of speed,” he says. “i achievement, again landing the BF activities in the United States of drove the family Ford too fast on Goodrich Radial Challenge crown. America, which this year includes our country roads, learned to speed shift, in the mid-1990s he raced again, in three new world championship events: drove a borrowed Austin Healey on a touring cars, and won the American the WEC round we had at Sebring, and drag strip and rode a rebuilt 125cc Road and, on two the upcoming WtCC round at Sonoma Harley, until i could afford my first car, occasions, the twenty Four Hours of and the US Grand Prix in Austin. So all a tR3. that seed was just waiting for nelson Ledges. “After retiring, i took an of that keeps me pretty busy!” fertile ground and a mentor, which mBA at Harvard and planned to devote occurred when i became acquainted myself to investment banking,” he says. nicK craW served as President of the SCCA for 17 years, a decade longer than any other with a Formula B racer in Washington “instead, in 1983, i took a diversion to CEO. His time there, in which he helped DC who taught me about set-up and the Sports Car Club of America (SCCA) as double membership, was followed by his tuning. the rest, as they say, is history.” President and CEo for 17 years.” appointment as President of ACCUS. That led His initial efforts were promising. “All the SCCA had 55,000 members in 110 to membership of the FIA’s World Motor Sport of my preparation took place in Formula regions, and sanctioned 2,000 amateur Council and in turn led to his subsequent

B/Atlantic cars, in the SCCA national and professional events each year. election as President of the FIA Senate. photography: VlaDiMir ryS

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As the new Head of Powertrain at the winning years in 2005 and 2006, With a host of F1 FIA, Fabrice Lom’s job is to look at the when he worked as the motor engineer rules and regulations of all the FIA for . titles behind him championships and develop a strategy In 2007, Renault expanded to supply for sustainable powertrains that work Red Bull Racing and Lom was given with Renault, for all of them, both independently the role of chief engineer of the and selectively. It is his goal to ensure customer programme. He continued to there are few men that the sport is moving in the right work with Red Bull Racing, although direction for the federation, and for in 2011 he took on a slightly different more qualified to the automobile industry. In this, he role, working as the technical liaison works alongside the federation’s between Renault and the team, rather look into the future Technical Director Bernard Niclot. than travelling to all the races. Lom joined the FIA at the end of last It was during this period that a new of motor racing year after a career at in role opened up, in Paris. Viry-Châtillon, Paris, where he spent “The FIA contacted me and engines than the the past 15 years. proposed a job,” he explains. “I was He grew up in the town of Pau, in quite happy at Renault but it sounded FIA’s new Head of the south-west of France, in the like a very interesting opportunity for shadow of the Pyrénées. As such it was me and so I decided to take it. Powertrain, perhaps inevitable that he would be “It is a very busy role. I am in charge interested in motor racing as Pau has of all powertrains that the FIA is FABrice lom been one of the centres of the motor involved with, from Formula One to sport since competition began. Indeed, the World Rally Championship, the Pau was the venue for the first World Endurance Championship and automobile race use to be branded a the World Touring Car Championship, ‘Grand Prix’. That was back in 1901 Formula 3 and even land speed when locals borrowed the term from a records. Really, it is anything that well-known local horse race. comes under the FIA banner. Since the 1930s the “Since I started I have been working has been a celebrated street race. One on the new regulations for the World of the circuit corners is known as Endurance Championship and also Lycée, because it is located next to the discussing the details of the 2014 F1 school where Lom spent his teenage rules with the manufacturers,” he 050 years, the Lycée Louis Barthou. Due to adds. “I am also working on new fuel 051 the noise of the cars, the school regulations and with the Technical traditionally cancelled classes for two Working Group.” days during the race weekend, leaving One key element of the job is to the students free to watch the action, listen to the automobile manufacturers which at the time included Formula to hear what they want to be doing in 3000, Formula 3 and Formula Renault. the future, perhaps in five or 10 years Lom developed a passion for motor from now. It takes around three years sport and decided that to become a to go through the processes of creating racing engineer. He was a good new regulations and so the FIA is constantly trying to be aware of what student and when it came to choosing suggested and when I had completed ended with a dramatic showdown in is going to be needed in the future, his further education he had a choice all the courses I wrote back to him and Jerez de la Frontera, where Frentzen’s rather than making decisions and between the École Supérieure explained that I had taken his advice team-mate won the hoping that the manufacturers are d’Electricité, commonly known as and asked whether he would employ World Championship but only after happy with that. Supélec, and the École Centrale de me at Renault Sport. He remembered Ferrari’s Michael Schumacher had It has been clear for some time that Lyon. Both were respected engineering this kid writing to him and I guess he attempted to drive him off track. the industry is looking towards hybrid schools but Fabrice’s father felt that felt that I had showed my dedication to The following year Renault engines electric cars, with smaller more Supélec had more standing and would motor sport by going through all the continued to be used in Formula One efficient internal combustion engines. lead to a better job in the future. courses, so that was very good for me.” but they were badged as Part of the job is make sure that work “That was not what I really wanted,” Lom was also lucky in that he and in the course of 1998 Super being done in one championship can Lom explains. “So I suggested writing arrived in Formula One at a time when Performance Competition Engineering be useful in other series as well and a letter to , the head of Renault was changing. signed a distribution agreement with Lom has been working hard to make Renault Sport, to ask him for advice. “At that point in time Renault had Mecachrome for 1999 and so the this happen. At the time he was the top engineer in announced that it was going to leave engines were later rebadged as Formula One in France and so he Formula One at the end of 1997,” he Supertec units. fabrice lom can claim to have had a hand in seemed like a good person to ask. It explains. “That meant that some of the In 2001, Renault returned to F1 by five Formula One world championships in his was nice of him to answer my letter. people there had already left, so I was purchasing the Benetton team and time as an engineer with Renault Sport, having “He suggested that I should go to the able to make very quick progress. I Renault-designed engines once again worked with the team during the title-winning seasons of Jacques Villeneuve (1997), École Centrale and then afterwards was a race engineer with Heinz-Harald carried the company’s name. Lom (2005, ’06) and Sebastian spend a year at the École Nationale Frentzen at [Renault partner team] stayed with the Viry-Chatillon team Vettel (2010 and 2011). With a successful 15- Supérieure du Pétrole et des Moteurs, Williams F1 in 1997.” throughout the period and then played year career in F1 powerplants behind him, which I did not even know about at the That was the last year of Renault’s an important role in the build up to Fabrice joins the FIA as Head of Powertrain

time,” Lom adds. “So I did what he photography: Magali Delporte, LAT official involvement in the sport and Renault F1’s World Championship- following the departure of Gilles Simon.

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are given go-karts and are allowed concern at the pinnacle of Italian to drive them on closed tracks equipped motor racing. with everyday road signs. That’s the first “Sport is a feather in ACI’s cap,” he step towards learning about road safety, says. “Italy has an enviable tradition in as well as gaining respect for life and motor sport but today, for the first time also for rules.” for many years, there is no Italian F1 That’s not all however. “The ACI has driver. However, this is just a problem of worked hard for many years to introduce passing from one generation to the next. accompanied driving from the age of 17 We are concerned by this and in co- – one year before the Italian law that was operation with the major motor racing previously in force. This provision was stakeholders – such as the Ferrari finally approved in April 2012. Driving Driving Academy and our CSAI-Abarth with a skilled adult driver makes young Formula Championship – we are already people more responsible and gives them bringing up a new generation of drivers the opportunity of getting into traffic who are ready for the next great leap”. with more support to improve their Apart from an interest in circuit driving skills.” racing, the new President of the ACI has The ACI also strongly supports safe a particular enthusiasm for rallying. driving courses. “Not only does safety “Rallying is one of the most beloved benefit from the development of this forms of motor sport and has the tool – which is already compulsory in longest heritage,” he smiles. “A lot of some nations – but the whole country rallies have been and are still run in could be involved in this cultural Italy, and we want to promote this revolution, with a view to spreading safe aspect. We are also lucky enough to run driving courses more widely. This would what is considered the most beautiful make it possible to save thousands of rally in the world, the one taking place lives on roads,” he says. in . To me, it’s not only an The ACI President also points to young important piece of heritage belonging to people’s passion for motor vehicles as a the fans, but also to the country as a key method of pushing home issues whole – and especially to the enchanted surrounding road safety and that their island of Sardinia.” enthusiasm is a means of allowing the The Automobile Club d’Italia and club to actively involve young people. its President aim also have ambitious 052 “Passion is the key word,” he says. international goals. “We contributed 053 “Although youngsters are most to the birth of the FIA, and ever since frequently associated with road then we have put our full support into accidents, this should not automatically international organisations. There’s no mean that they should be frightened or area of action where a country can criminalised. The whole community operate on its own: cooperation is vital of drivers should be able to share the for everyone. We are lucky to be wonderful joy of travelling by affiliated with a compact and powerful automobile, provided this is done in a federation such as the FIA, which has safe and sustainable manner.” very clear ideas, always involves us Passion for driving, mobility, the car completely, and urges us to perform at and sport is, Sticchi Damiani insists, our best. Our support of the FIA Action “part of the ACI DNA”. for Road Safety campaign is a perfect “Italy has an extraordinary motor example of our will to stand shoulder sport tradition,” he says. “The name to shoulder with the FIA in the fight to Ferrari does not need any explanation, achieve our goal of saving millions and furthermore, behind this name a of lives on roads worldwide.” whole dynamic world exists. Committed. Firm. Enthusiast. These are organisation such as the Automobile “Promoting sport, contrary to Angelo Sticchi Damiani A rally driver in Recently elected as President the 1970s, Lecce-born Damiani has been a the principles Angelo Sticchi Damiani Club d’Italia, especially when dealing received wisdom, also means promoting member of the Italian Motor Sport of the Automobile Club d’Italia, has set out to follow in his new role as with road safety issues, youngsters better driving rules,” he adds. Commission since 1975 and has organised President of the Automobile Club d’Italia should be the main target. Road accident “Competing does not only mean the Rally of Salento since 1973. He has been Angelo Sticchi Damiani (ACI). While he is a passionate collector statistics are quite self-explanatory: a pressing hard on the accelerator. I am President of the Automobile Club of Lecce of vintage cars, the new President has large number of people between 18 and well aware of this myself as I was a rally since 1990 and has been an ACI Executive believes that the club’s first focus set his priorities on the future, with a 22 are involved in road accidents. This is driver in my younger years. We aim to Committee member since 1994. He has been particular focus on young people, sport the issue we should tackle.” make young people more familiar with President of the organising committee of must be on youth and safety and international co-operation. The ACI President firmly believes that racetracks, as well as raising their WRC event the Rally d’Italia Sardegna. Since “Without neglecting problems that taking action means taking preventive awareness of the utmost importance of 1998 he has represented Italy on the FIA Circuits Commission. In 2009, he was elected may sometimes be difficult, such as the measures in the first place. This is why complying with rules, when competing President of the Italian Motor Sport economic downturn, high car taxes, his organisation is developing a range of and also during day-to-day driving on Commission He became ACI’s Vice President expensive car insurance and high fuel activities that start with the youngest the road.” in 2011 and was elected President of the prices – among the highest in Europe – drivers of all. Sticchi Damiani is also President of the Automobile Club of Italy in December 2011. we are well aware that our main mission “We organise events for children once Italian Motor Sport Commission and He has also participated in three editions of here concerns young people. For an they turn eight years old,” he says. “They concedes that there are matters for the Mille Miglia Storica (1997-1999).

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in England. After that came the 1998 With a range of sporting rights agreements Winter Olympics in Nagano and the Summer Olympics in Sydney in 2000. It on the table, the FIA needed strength was a lot of fun.” After a number of years on the road, and depth on its legal bench. Possessing she decided it was time to settle down a a strong background in sports law, little and took up an offer to become Head of Legal Affairs at the European Kym Fletcher was the perfect choice as Broadcasting Union, dealing with television contracts and the legal the federation’s new Legal Counsel arrangements of the operational side of the business. However, after five years the role proved to be rather too quiet and Fletcher decided it was time for new challenges. By this time she had two small children and had also begun to dabble in property development. British lawyer Kym Fletcher has a time and so I started looking around for However, she soon decided that she was colourful career behind her spanning a job in Brussels. better at being a lawyer than she was at intellectual property law in London and “A recruitment agency then contacted running building sites. Brussels, commercial contract work for me with a position working for A recruitment consultant suggested the World Cup and Olympic Games International Sport and Leisure (ISL), a that she try the FIA, which was looking organisations, and a period organising sports marketing agency in to strengthen its legal team. She quickly television contracts for the European .” joined the staff of Sébastien Bernard, Broadcasting Union. Along the way she ISL dealt with the rights of many of the FIA’s Head of Legal Affairs, has also been a property developer… the world’s leading sports federations, in July 2010. and had two children. notably the International Olympic “I have never been very much Fletcher’s journey to her new role as Committee, the Fédération into sport,” she admits, “but I love Legal Counsel for the FIA in Geneva Internationale de Football Association the business of sport and it was began in the unlikely setting of Rhyl, (FIFA), the Union of European Football clearly a very exciting role, helping a quiet seaside town in North Wales. Associations (UEFA), the Association of the FIA with its commercial “Everyone says: ‘I went there once’,” Tennis Professionals (ATP) and the arrangements. It has been a very busy 054 she smiles. “It wasn’t very glamorous.” International Association of Athletics and intense period. 055 She won a place to study international Federations (IAAF). “Motor sport was a bit of a mystery law at Warwick University and from “It was a very interesting place to to me and the agreements were all there furthered her law studies in work,” she says. “It was a much less rather fragmented. I saw it as a Chester before being taken on by the closed atmosphere than in London and wonderful opportunity to help the international law firm Denton Wilde much more nurturing. It was also a very FIA to restructure its arrangements. Sapte in London. As an institution different kind of job as I was travelling “I have been heavily involved in that can trace its roots back to the all around the world and dealing with a the re-negotiation of the F1 Concorde 1780s, Fletcher recalls it as being lot of big blue-chip companies. Agreement, mainly in terms of “very old school”. The role there was “My job was to arrange the preparing the documentation. The a baptism of fire. commercial contracts for the 1994 World World Rally Championship has also “At that time it was not a very Cup in the United States, and the 1996 been taking up a lot of my time because enlightened environment,” she says. “It UEFA European Football Championship of the collapse of North One Sport was very male-dominated world. They and what has happened since. It has were all public schoolboys and the been interesting looking at all the junior members of the firm were treated options for the future and examining like slaves. We worked around the clock what might be best for the FIA. and at weekends; it was quite a tough “The Formula One negotiations are time. And they were not big on women. ongoing and we also have the World I think there was one female partner in Touring Car Championship contract the firm, but she got pushed out when expiring this year, the GT World she decided to get married. It was all Championship contract in 2014 and rather grim.” European Rallycross Championship as It was good training, however. She well. There is no shortage of work!” specialised in intellectual property law and was sent to Brussels to take a course Kym fletcher joins the FIA legal

ulya with DG13, the European Commission’s department having handled rights directorate with responsibility for agreements for some of the world’s major sporting events, including football’s World Telecommunications. Since the collapse of Cup and the Olympics. Her main tasks in “I liked Brussels,” she says. “And the recent months have been looking after the working atmosphere was different, so promoter North One Sport, the future of the FIA’s interests during the re-negotiation of when I went back to London I found that WRC has been one of the Formula One Concorde Agreement and I did not really want to be there any Fletcher’s main concerns. dealing with the search for a new promoter

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