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Applications open for Sid Watkins Scholarship 2020, an initiative established in honour of the safety pioneer

As part of the FIA Child Safety in Cars project with the support of the FIA Road Safety Grants Programme, a number of European FIA Clubs have collected used child restraints, donating them to Clubs in Eastern Europe over Spring and Autumn 2019.

The FIA World Endurance Championship is in Japan preparing for Round 2 of the 2019/20 season, the 6 Hours of Fuji. Thursday is the traditional set up day ahead of Free Practice, which begins at 11h00 on Friday, but there was still plenty going on in the Land of the Rising Sun.

Wales Rally GB plays host to the final round of the wide-open 2019 FIA Junior WRC Championship after a hotly contested season with three different winners across four rounds so far. 72 points are available thanks to double classification points and 22 stage win points. One of the closest races in FIA Junior WRC Championship history Top nine have a mathematical chance of winning the championship. Four out of five best classified results and all stage win points count towards the championship. Discounting worst classification points, just 21 points separate the top three.

The headquarters of the EU Commission in Brussels today played host to the Closing Conference of the EU Erasmus+ supported FIA European Young Women Programme, one of the federation’s initiatives to champion gender equality and increase the participation of women in motor sport at grassroots level.

Michèle Mouton, President of the FIA Women in Motorsport Commission, today welcomed more than 100 European commissioners, executives from national, public and European institutions, and representatives from within sporting, motor sport and women in sport organisations to the Closing Conference for the FIA’s European Young Women Programme at the Bibliothèque Solvay, headquarters of the EU Commission in Brussels.

On Sunday 6 October the eighth edition of the 6 Hours of Fuji will receive the green flag to begin round 2 of the 2019/20 FIA World Endurance Championship. Here are some facts and figures about the WEC in Japan, Fuji Speedway and Mount Fuji, Japan’s holy mountain that dominates the skyline of the 4.5km circuit.

Round 9 of the 2019 FIA European Historic Sporting Rally Championship is the Mecsek Rallye in Hungary and it will host the season finale of the season with seven of the nine championship titles still yet to be decided. With only the best six of the nine scores counting towards the title, adding a further element to the drama that will unfold in Hungary.

Double FIA Formula One World Champion and reigning FIA World Endurance Champion Fernando Alonso joins a star-studded entry on the final round of the FIA World Cup for Cross Country Rallies as the title fight goes down to the wire in Morocco.

Wales Rally GB, a classic test of the FIA World Rally Championship, awaits the crews on round 12 of the 2019 season on October 3-6.