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2018 Race of Hockenheim - Qualifying 2 & 3

FIA President Jean Todt and Deputy President for Sport Graham Stoker hosted the third World Motor Sport Council of 2018 today in Paris

Four dynamic females racing in the United States hope to take the 2019 IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar Championship by storm with a ground-breaking team on board the No. 57 Meyer Shank Racing (MSR) Acura NSX GT3 car.

TOR Truck Racing’s Shane Brereton finished his record-breaking campaign in the FIA European Truck Racing Championship’s GRAMMER TRUCK CUP with a dominant performance that resulted in four category wins from four races.

In first qualifying of the FIA Formula 3 European Championship during the season finale at Hockenheim, Guanyu Zhou (PREMA Theodore Racing, 1m32.335s) claimed first place.

Belgium’s legendary Circuit de Spa-Francorchamps will join the FIA World Rallycross Championship presented by Monster Energy from next season in a new five-year deal, with the quickest rallycross drivers on the planet set to tackle one of the most iconic corners in the sport – Eau Rouge.

In the traditional Pre Event Press Conference six drivers gathered after Free Practice 1 to answers questions from the international media ahead of this weekend’s 6 Hours of Fuji, Round 4 of the 2018/19 FIA World Endurance Championship.

Toyota continue to improve the times around the 4.5km Fuji Speedway, with Fernando Alonso lowering the best time of the day by nearly two seconds for the Japanese team.

The first track session of the Japanese round of the 2018/19 FIA World Endurance Championship saw the no8 Toyota Gazoo Racing TS050-Hybrid set the fastest time of the 90 minute session. In a session that was interrupted by a red flag period to repair a broken kerb, Sebastien Buemi set a 1m25.847 lap of the Fuji Speedway track, with the Kamui Kobayashi in the no7 Toyota just 0.534 seconds behind.

For World Sight Day (WSD) 2017, the FIA welcomed Michael Fassbender as its new #3500LIVES Global Road Safety Campaign Ambassador. Advocating for improved vision, Fassbender represents the “Check your Vision” Golden Rule for Road Safety. This year, the Federation renews its support for this international day of awareness — held annually on the second Thursday of October — to focus attention on the global issue of avoidable blindness and vision impairment.