Road Safety took centre stage today when Brazil's President Dilma Rousseff addressed the UN Annual General Assembly highlighting the role the FIA has taken in combating the rising number of deaths and serious injuries on the world's roads.
Fred Makowiecki (FRA) and Stef Dusseldorp (NLD) delivered a victory double for Hexis Racing McLaren in a dramatic climax to the 2012 FIA GT1 World Championship at Donington Park.
Stef Dusseldorp (NLD) and Fred Makowiecki (FRA) secured victory for McLaren on home soil in the Qualifying Race at the final round of the FIA GT1 World Championship at Donington Park.
Laurens Vanthoor and debutant Adam Carroll in the Belgian Audi Club Team WRT Audi R8 No.32 grabbed pole position in an eventful Qualifying session in the championship title-decider at Donington Park.
The competitors in the FIA World Endurance Championship set off at 1600 hours for the 6 Hours of Bahrain, sixth round of the season, under a scorching sun and a suffocating heat relative to that of the past few days.
The 20-minute qualifying for the LMP1 and LMP2 competitors had a brief stoppage just over half way through for marshals to retrieve a dislodged bollard, but that mattered little to Allan McNish in the No.2 Audi R18 3-tron quattro.