Brazilian GP Race Stewards Biographies GARRY CONNELLY DEPUTY PRESIDENT, FIA INSTITUTE Garry Connelly has been involved in motor sport since the late 1960s. A long time rally competitor, Connelly was instrumental in bringing the World Rally Championship to Australia in 1988 and served as Chairman of the Organising Committee, Board member and Clerk of Course of Rally Australia until December 2002. He has been an FIA Steward and FIA Observer since 1989, covering the FIA’s World Rally Championship, World Touring Car Championship and Formula One Championship. He is a director of the Australian Institute of Motor Sport Safety, a member of the FIA World Motor Sport Council and in December 2011 was elected Deputy President of the FIA Institute. SILVIA BELLOT GRADUATE OF THE FIA TRAINEE STEWARD PROGRAMME Silvia Bellot began marshalling in 2001 at the age of 16. Despite her youth Bellot has been Permanent Chairman of Stewards for the European F3 Open and Spanish Endurance Championships, as well as Permanent Steward of the GT Open International and Andorra Ice Championships, among other national series. A native of Barcelona, Bellot has sat on the stewards’ panel at a wide range of championships, including the World Rally Championship, GP2, GP3, BMW Europe, DTM and World Series by Renault. In 2001, she started her collaboration with Catalunya’s automobile club, the RACC, and in 2008 she joined the Spanish Assembly and the Circuit the Catalunya officials’ committee. A year later, Bellot took part in the FIA trainee stewards’ program for GP2 and F1. In 2011 she sat as an FIA steward at the Turkish and Italian Grands Prix and again this year in Italy. TOM KRISTENSEN EIGHT TIMES LE MANS WINNER, GERMAN F3 CHAMPION (1991), Japanese F3 CHAMPION (1993) ALMS CHAMPION (2001) Denmark’s Tom Kristensen is the most successful driver in the history of the Le Mans 24-Hour race. He has won the classic endurance event eight times, racing for Porsche, Audi and Bentley. Kristensen, 44, has a broad racing CV, having competed in single-seaters, touring cars and a range of sportscars. He has also tested in F1. A popular and respected figure, this year he has competed in the inaugural FIA World Endurance Championship, driving for Audi Sport Team Joest. Along with long-time team mates Dindo Capello and Allan McNish he won the first round of the championship at the 12 Hours of Sebring, making him the first man to win that famous race six times. .