The FIA Foundation held its Annual General Meeting during the FIA AGM in Baku, Azerbaijan, to report on its 2023 work in road and motor sport safety, climate, environment and adolescent health.
Aspiring motorsport leaders from across the globe took part in the intensive ten-day FIA Immersion Programme supported by the FIA Foundation.
Safety training for Formula E racing vehicles is protecting drivers, medics and rescue teams from electric hazards on the race track, supported by the FIA Foundation through ongoing research grants.
The FIA has hosted its first Safety Week, a hybrid digital conference over three day, highlighting innovation, research, and best practice across all levels of motor sport, supported by the FIA Foundation’s research and motorsport grants.
The FIA Foundation Annual General Meeting has heard reports from NGO partners and clubs about work over the past year to deliver for people and planet.
THUMS (Total Human Model for Safety) is a computer model that represents the human body, able to simulate injuries for real-life safety research that is difficult to measure on crash test dummies. Supplementing the existing methodology of full-scale real car crash testing, THUMS and the continual advance in computer capabilities is allowing the testing to move into the virtual world. Multiple changes to vehicle design, be that the seats, seatbelts, or chassis can now be iterated through to determine the safest installations, as well as allowing accident and injury reconstruction.
The Halo, introduced by the FIA and designed by researchers at the Global Institute for Motor Sport Safety, with funding support from the FIA Foundation, was initially designed as a device to provide additional frontal protection from flying objects for open cockpit racing drivers.