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The opening round of the FIA World Endurance Championship Super Season, the TOTAL 6 Hours of Spa-Francorchamps (3-5 May), was officially launched at an event in Brussels in front of WEC CEO Gérard Neveu, top class drivers from the LMP1, LMP2 and GTE classes and leading media figures from Belgium and the Netherlands.

The 2018 FIA World Rallycross Championship presented by Monster Energy resumes this weekend with the Bompiso World RX of Portugal, located in picturesque Montalegre for round two of the season (April 28-29).

In his capacity as President of the FIA and UN Secretary-General’s Special Envoy for Road Safety, Jean Todt was invited to Madrid on 26 April for an audience with the King of Spain, Felipe VI.

In front of a large crowd and under a summer sun – which was a marked contrast with the almost wintry weather in the 2017 edition, the famous Rechbergrennen in Austria was host to the ruthless victories, in Categories 1 and 2 respectively, of Pierre Courroye and Christian Merli.

The Fédération Internationale de l’Automobile (FIA) has announced the renewal of its partnership with EDF, as an Official Technical Supplier. This will ensure continued collaboration until 2020, with the partnership having begun in 2014.

On 11-12 April 2018, members of the International Transport Forum’s (ITF) Safer City Streets network gathered in Rome to discuss a broad agenda of international road safety priorities.

Jean-Eric Vergne and Formula E hold charity e-karting event ahead of the Paris E-Prix

The early-season sequence of flyaway races draws to a close this weekend with F1 heading to the Baku City Circuit, home of the Azerbaijan Grand Prix for Round Four of the 2018 FIA Formula One World Championship.

The Finnish crew of Harri Toivonen-Cedric Wrede dominated Category 4 in their Ford Sierra Cosworth 4x4 during the 27th edition of the Historic Vltava Rallye in the Czech Republic, the second round of the FIA European Historic Sporting Rally Championship.

Round 1 of the 2018/19 FIA World Endurance Championship, the Total 6 Hours of Spa-Francorchamps on Saturday 5 May, will see a record-breaking 37 cars for an FIA World Endurance Championship 6 Hour race with 10 cars in LMP1, 8 in LMP2, 10 in LMGTE Pro and 9 in LMGTE Am.