The FIA Institute has announced the date for the 2010 Medicine in Motor Sport Summit. The event is set to take place from 17 to 19 September in Valencia to coincide with the WTCC and Formula Two rounds taking place over the same weekend.

The Summit will bring together key stakeholders on the subject of medicine in motor sport and will see a number of meetings, notably a meeting of the FIA Medical Commission and the biannual Chief Medical Officers (CMO) seminar, which is a key component of the licensing requirements for CMOs.

The aim of the Summit is to help develop medical excellence across all motor sport and use this to set a benchmark for medical excellence in other sports. Delegates are set to include representatives of drivers, senior representatives of racing and rally teams, manufacturers, promoters, circuit administrators and medical practitioners.

The Valencia Summit is the third such summit to be held by the FIA Institute and the second themed around medicine after a similar meeting which took place in 2008 in the FIA Institute’s Centre of Excellence, the Bahrain International Circuit, that time to coincide with the Bahrain Grand Prix.

The Bahrain meeting was hailed by leading figures in motor sport for helping to improve medical facilities and safety in motor racing worldwide. Formula One driver Mark Webber, representing the Grand Prix Drivers’ Association (GPDA) at the Summit, expressed his delight at the continued progress being made by the FIA Institute in motor sport safety. He said: “With the FIA Institute working hard with a Summit meeting like this and just flagging up lots of different subjects which can be thrown into a brain-storming session, it serves to increase our knowledge and expertise for the safety of our sport.”