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A new two-car team – STARD – has confirmed its entry into the 2017 FIA World Rallycross Championship.

FIA President Jean Todt and IOC President Thomas Bach today signed a Memorandum of Understanding concerning the promotion of joint road safety campaigns across their shared platforms and ahead of sporting events

Reigning FIA World Rallycross Champion Mattias Ekstrom and his team, EKS, will contest the 2017 season with three Audi S1 EKS RX quattro cars. Latvia’s Reinis Nitiss will join team-mates Ekstrom and Topi Heikkinen in the team’s third car

2016 FIA European Rallycross Champion and FIA Rookie of the Year Kevin Hansen joins Sebastien Loeb and Timmy Hansen for full FIA World Rallycross Championship campaign

Based in Dunedin and as a round of the MSNZ New Zealand Rally Championship, the Otago Rally is widely regarded as the Southern Hemisphere’s best classic rally, with a host of World Rally Champions having graced the stages over the past 15 years.

50 participants representing 15 ASNs attend third MENA Sport Regional Congress held this year in Beirut

At his third attempt, Sebastien Buemi, driving for the Renault e.dams team, won the Buenos Aires ePrix for the first time, which means he has won all three races of the 2016/2017 season to date. Buemi crossed the line ahead of Jean-Eric Vergne (Techeetah) and Lucas di Grassi (ABT Schaeffler Audi Sport.)

To pledge his support against terrorism to the two Turkish FIA Clubs, TTOK and TOSFED, Jean Todt and Michelle Yeoh (Spokesperson for the FIA High Level Panel) had dinner with Istanbul’s Mayor, Kadir Topbas and Vasip Sahin, Governor of Istanbul

Today, FIA President Jean Todt, who also serves as UN Secretary General’s Special Envoy for Road Safety, visited the students of the Master’s degree in Road Safety Management at Saint-Joseph University in Beirut.

As part of its on-going road safety education project, the National Automobile Club of Azerbaijan (AMAK) has launched a series of competitions among schools to generate more awareness for road safety.