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The FIA Institute
improves the
safety of motor
sport through
analysis, research,
testing and
development.
Welcome
Professor Sid Watkins, FIA Institute President
I have spent most of my life working to improve motor sport
Recognising and rewarding excellence in motor sport
safety and I can think of no greater honour than being elected achievement is also fundamental to our approach.
as the first President of the FIA Institute.
Our Centre of Excellence programme is set to roll out
Our aims at the FIA Institute are very clear, to encourage the
across established and emerging motor sport markets
rapid development of new and improved safety technologies, worldwide and our close liaison with national sporting
to facilitate ever higher standards of education and training
authorities as well as the key industry players will
and to campaign to raise awareness of safety issues amongst encourage new safety partnerships to flourish.
all of those involved in our sport.
Our work has only just started but we could not have
It is the FIA Institute’s commitment to rapid progress which is
made a better beginning. With the help and support of
perhaps the most satisfying. In our first two years we have
all of those working and competing in international motor
already commissioned more than 50 projects, the vast
sport the FIA Institute will always strive to ensure that safety
majority of which will have a very significant bearing on
comes first.
the way we go racing and rallying.
A project such as developing a new crash helmet
specifically engineered for young drivers up to 16 years
old has broken new ground and has done so in record time.
After only 18 months, laboratory testing is already underway
on a prototype and production on the final version is set
to begin by the end of 2007.
Introduction
Professor Gérard Saillant, FIA Institute Deputy President
It is perhaps appropriate that the FIA Institute was inaugurated in
Paris during the FIA’s centenary celebrations. It demonstrated
that whilst recognising motor sport’s history and heritage the
FIA was not only thinking of the past but also the future.
Ever since I was invited to become involved in its work, first
as a Fellow and now as Deputy President, the FIA Institute has
consistently echoed this forward thinking and dynamic vision.
Motor sport will always be a sport with an element of risk.
Preventing accidents is not always possible but striving to
minimise the consequences of an accident is fundamental
to the FIA Institute’s approach. Whether in terms of driver
equipment, crash test standards, circuit infrastructure design
or the training of officials, the FIA Institute is working to
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improve all of the elements which together create the system
of safety in motor sport.
Medicine and sport have been the twin vocational passions
which have defined my professional life. The opportunity to
bring these two passions together in the important work of
the FIA Institute is one that I greatly value.