FIA President H.E. Mohammed Ben Sulayem Meets With President of the Czech Republic, Prime Minister, and Authorities Leaders in Prague
H.E. Mohammed Ben Sulayem, President of the FIA, met this week with senior leaders of the Czech Republic in Prague, reinforcing the sturdy partnership between the Fédération Internationale de l’Vehicle (FIA) and one in all Europe’s most important automotive and motorsport nations.
In the course of the go to, President Ben Sulayem held discussions with the President of the Czech Republic, Petr Pavel, Prime Minister Andrej Babiš, and Minister of Training, Youth and Sports activities Boris Šťastný.
The conferences centered on shared priorities throughout mobility and motorsport, together with highway security, sustainable transport, innovation, and grassroots participation.
As a part of discussions on mobility, President Ben Sulayem outlined the FIA’s work to enhance highway security outcomes by data-driven initiatives together with the FIA Street Security Index and FIA Driver Security Index. The programmes present governments, organisations and highway customers with sensible instruments to measure, benchmark and enhance highway security efficiency, supporting the ambition of decreasing highway visitors fatalities and accidents.
The FIA President additionally highlighted the contribution of the Autoklub České republiky in advocating for elevated accessibility and variety in motorsport. Via its work in training, advocacy and competitors, the Membership performs an important function in creating alternatives for participation at each stage of the game, whereas President Jan Šťovíček performs an lively function inside the FIA ecosystem together with service on the World Motor Sport Council (WMSC), as President of the Coordination Discussion board for Japanese and Central European International locations (COFO), and as a board member of the FIA Basis.
Funded by grants from the FIA and FIA Basis, the Autoklub CR has developed two key programmes to encourage the subsequent era of racers – the Karting Academy which is an academic programme that develops Karting expertise and data whereas cultivating expertise, and has seen greater than 1,000 kids attend the programme thus far, with many now competing internationally, and RacerBuggy 160, a division for kids aged 5 to eight centered on autocross coaching. Over the past seven years, greater than 3,000 kids have handed by the academy.
Discussions coated the significance of grassroots motorsport as a pathway for younger expertise and a method of creating the volunteers and officers who kind the spine of worldwide motorsport. President Ben Sulayem praised the Autoklub’s ongoing funding in karting, nationwide championships and youth participation programmes, that are serving to to strengthen the way forward for Czech motorsport.
Talking following the conferences, FIA President, H.E. Mohammed Ben Sulayem stated: “The Czech Republic has a proud automotive and motorsport heritage and continues to show how mobility, innovation and sport can work collectively.”
“I wish to thank President Pavel, Prime Minister Babiš, and Minister Šťastný for his or her heat welcome and constructive discussions. I stay up for persevering with our collaboration as we work collectively to construct a safer, extra sustainable future for mobility and motorsport.”
President of the Autoclub of the Czech Republic, Jan Šťovíček, stated: “It was an honour to showcase the optimistic affect that FIA funding is having throughout our programmes. These grants are serving to us strengthen grassroots motorsport, spend money on younger expertise and create new alternatives for individuals to have interaction with our sport. The help of the FIA is enjoying an necessary function in serving to us obtain these ambitions and safe a powerful future for motorsport within the Czech Republic.”
The go to varieties a part of the FIA President’s ongoing programme of engagement with governments, Member Golf equipment and stakeholders worldwide, supporting the FIA’s mission to advance protected, sustainable and accessible mobility whereas guaranteeing the continued development and growth of motorsport.
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The Fédération Internationale de l’Vehicle (FIA) is the governing physique for world motor sport and the federation for mobility organisations globally. It’s a non-profit organisation dedicated to driving innovation and championing security, sustainability and equality throughout motor sport and mobility.
Based in 1904, with places of work in Paris, London and Geneva, the FIA brings collectively 245 Member Organisations throughout 5 continents, representing tens of millions of highway customers, motor sport professionals and volunteers. It develops and enforces laws for motor sport, together with seven FIA World Championships, to make sure worldwide competitions are protected and honest for all.
