News Archive

The FIA Institute is partnering with Delta Motorsport, specialists in design and engineering, to investigate the launching effects that sometimes cause Le Mans Prototype sportscars to fly off the track.more...
The FIA World Touring Car Championship became the first championship to benefit from the FIA Institute’s Accident Data Recorder (ADR) Programme when it introduced the essential safety technology in its September race at Monza....more...
The Motor Sport Safety Development Fund will distribute motor sport safety-related grants around the world aimed at facilities development and improvement, young drivers, and motor sport officials.more...
The FIA Institute has won the 2008 Professional Motorsport World award for its work in improving side-impact protection in rallying.more...
The teams contesting the FIA World Rally Championship have incorporated the latest specification high performance racing seat in to their World Rally Cars ahead of the start of Rally Japan.more...
THE FIA Institute and Toyota Motor Corporation have combined technology and expertise to help improve safety in high-speed race-car accidents.more...
The second annual FIA Institute Summit was hailed by leading figures in motor sport for helping to improve medical facilities and safety in motor racing worldwide.more...
The Bahrain International Circuit today welcomed leading motor sport medical specialists from around the world for the second annual FIA Institute Summit.more...
The Grand Prix Drivers Association (GPDA) is the latest organisation to voice its support for the annual FIA Institute Safety Summit, which this year is hosted at the Bahrain International Circuit (BIC) April 3.more...
Specialist motor sport medical staff from around the world are set to converge on Bahrain in April for the second annual FIA Institute Summit.more...
The FIA Institute will host its second annual Summit at the Bahrain International Circuit on April 3rd.more...
The teams in the FIA World Rally Championship have incorporated the FIA Institute’s new side impact safety system in time for the start of the 2008 season, beginning with Rallye Automobile Monte-Carlo.more...
More than 160 race circuit marshals and medical personnel from around Europe converged on the Paul Ricard High Tech Test Track on 19 January for the third annual Extrication and Rescue Seminar.more...
The 2007 FIA Institute Centre of Excellence trophy was presented to the Bahrain International Circuit in a pre-awards ceremony at the FIA Gala in the Monaco Sporting Club.more...
The FIA Institute has concluded its groundbreaking project to develop a crash helmet specifically for use by young drivers.more...
The Bahrain International Circuit has been appointed as the FIA Institute’s Centre of Excellence for 2007.more...
The FIA Institute has announced the creation of a new Medical Faculty which will seek to consolidate the expertise of motor sport doctors and medical staff around the world.more...
The Grand Prix Drivers Association has offered its full support and backing to the inaugural FIA Institute Centre of Excellence Safety Summit.more...
The inaugural FIA Institute Safety Summit commenced at the Paul Ricard Circuit today with attendance from high-level representatives from the world of sport.more...
Tsutomu Tomita, Chairman and Team Principal of Panasonic Toyota Racing, will present a Toyota TF105 show car to the FIA Institute at the inaugural FIA Institute Safety Summit at the Paul Ricard circuit on January 18, 2007....more...
The inaugural Centre of Excellence Summit hosted by the FIA, the FIA Institute and the French Ministry of Sport will be held at the Paul Ricard circuit, in Le Castellet, France, on 18-19 January 2007.more...
The first FIA Institute Centre of Excellence trophy was presented to Paul Ricard High Tech Test Track in a VIP pre-awards ceremony at the FIA Gala in the Monaco Sporting Club.more...
A new high-speed safety barrier, researched and developed by the FIA Institute, has won the Safety Innovation of the Year award at the Professional MotorSport World Expo Awards 2006.more...
The FIA Institute has launched its first annual review, entitled 'Formula for Safety', which aims to give readers an overview of the FIA Institute and its objectives as well as an in-depth insight into some of its present and......more...
FIA Institute Deputy President Prof. Gérard Saillant and CIK-FIA President Luigi Macaluso attended the recent World Karting Championship event in Angerville, France to help launch ‘Race True’.more...
The FIA Institute’s Industry Liaison Group (ILG) held its first plenary session in Paris in front of a packed audience, including over 90 representatives from the motor sport safety industry.more...
Karting’s world governing body, the Commission Internationale de Karting-FIA is set to launch a new doping prevention campaign in partnership with the FIA Institute and the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA).more...
Professor Gérard Saillant has been invited to become Deputy President of the FIA Institute, with the unanimous support of the Executive Committee.more...
The FIA Institute is set to launch the first ever high level seminar dedicated to risk management in sport. The project forms part of a wider plan to improve medical training in motor sport worldwide.more...
Following a successful FIA Institute meeting in Montreal with leading figures in North American motor sport, the Grand Prix Drivers Association has thrown its full support behind a new safety handbook created by the FIA Institute....more...
The Paul Ricard High Tech Test Track in Le Castellet, southern France, has been chosen as the FIA Institute’s first Centre for Motor Sport Excellence. It will be used to host safety seminars, train motor sport officials, and test new safety features....more...
The FIA Institute has always been proactive towards safety. But sometimes it has to react to unfortunate race incidents and ensure they never reoccur.more...