FIA INSTITUTE CENTRE OF EXCELLENCE SUMMIT TOYOTA TO PRESENT
F1 CAR FOR MOTOR SPORT SAFETY TRAINING
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. The F1 car
presented by Toyota will be a tool for the FIA Institute’s
international extrication training programme for medical and
safety officials working in single seater racing.
The TF105 car will be used to improve techniques of driver
extrication following accidents, and has been specially modified
with a jig fitted to allow the FIA Institute to easily roll
the car upside down, while the roll hoop camera has been removed.
It features a modified driver’s seat to fit a crash
test dummy into the cockpit and a dummy steering wheel. Instead
of an engine, a steel frame has been included in the rear
of the car to simulate the size and weight of a Formula 1
engine. The car features Bridgestone tyres and Takata safety
restraints in line with Toyota’s 2007 specifications.
Professor Gerard Saillant, Deputy President of the FIA Institute
said: “We are grateful for the support that the FIA
Institute has received from Toyota in helping us to achieve
our safety training objectives. The generous donation of an
F1 car will help to enhance the training of motor sport safety
officials. “We are also grateful to Toyota for sharing
their approach to safety with us in our conference sessions.
The level of knowledge and experience of all our guest speakers
promises a very high quality discussion at this our first
Safety Summit. “We look forward to welcoming our guests
at the Paul Ricard Circuit which is appropriately the first
recipient of our coveted Centre of Excellence Award.”
Tsutomu Tomita, Chairman and Team Principal of Panasonic Toyota
Racing said: “I am very pleased to be able to hand over
this car to the FIA Institute and contribute to the future
of safety in Formula 1. Safety is very important to us and
we will do whatever we can to help the FIA and the FIA Institute
in their work to make Formula 1 and motor sport in general
safer. “The FIA Institute is conducting very important
research which will be of enormous benefit to drivers throughout
motor sport and we have no hesitation in contributing to their
effort.”
The formal hand over will be followed by the opening session
of the FIA Institute Safety Summit and will include statements
and presentations by FIA President, Max Mosley; WilliamsF1
driver, Alex Wurz; Chairman and Panasonic Toyota Racing Team
Principal, Tsutomu Tomita; President of the IOC Medical Commission,
Dr Patrick Schamasch; President and CEO of the Paul Ricard
Circuit, Philippe Gurdjian; Senior Medical Advisor for the
Superbowl, Dr Ricardo Martinez and Jean-Philippe d’Hallivillée
of the Paris Saint-Germain Football Team. Delegates already
registered for the Summit, which will be chaired by FIA Institute
Deputy President Professor Gerard Saillant, include representatives
of the Grand Prix Drivers Association, senior representatives
of racing and rally teams, manufacturers, promoters, circuit
administrators and officials, medical practitioners and motor
sport safety equipment manufacturers from across the world.
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