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The four drivers nominated as official ‘Rookies’ for the official FIA WEC test session at Bahrain International Circuit on Sunday 15 December have today been announced.

The no8 Toyota Gazoo Racing TS050-Hybrid topped the second and final Free Practice session of the opening day at Fuji Speedway in Japan. Kazuki Nakajima posted the best time of the day, a 1m25.623, 1.419s ahead of the no1 Rebellion Racing R13-Gibson of Norman Nato, with the no5 Team LNT Ginetta a further half second behind with Egor Orudzhev’s 1m27.602 lap.

The no 8 Toyota TS050-hybrid set the pace in the first Free Practice session of the 6 Hours of Fuji weekend, Round 2 of the 2019/20 FIA World Endurance Championship.

Transcript of the pre-event press conference organised by the FIA for the 2019 Wales Rally GB

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.