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The lights will soon go out at the Autódromo Internacional Algarve to signal the start of the first Formula 1 Portuguese Grand Prix in 24 years. In the build up to the country’s long awaited F1 return, the Federação Portuguesa de Automobilismo e Karting (FPAK) has been on hand to assist with preparations and to take on the crucial role of providing the volunteers who will ensure safety and fairness at the pinnacle of motor sport.

Founded by FIA Environmental Delegate Garry Connelly AM and his wife Monique, Racing Together aims at helping Indigenous Australians break into the motor racing industry. The programme has recently completed a successful first outing with around 40 teenagers from Logan, south of Brisbane, taking part in the activity day at Norwell Motorplex.

Launched by the Lebanese Automobile and Touring Club (ATCL), the Lebanese Digital Motorsport Championship has crowned its first winner Sami-Joe Abi Nakhle on June 25 and 26 after four weeks of intense training on the “virtual” circuits.

Spa World Rallycross of Benelux, the Belgian round of the 2020 FIA World Rallycross Championship, scheduled to take place on 3-4 October, will be postponed to 21-22 November.

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Motor sport must adopt a new approach to the task of safeguarding its future, using its biggest events more effectively, and developing role models, to attract new generation of competitors, reveals a study commissioned by the Emirates Motorsports Organization.

Already aware of Digital Motor Sport through the FIA Certified Gran Turismo Championships and the FIA Motor Sport Games, several National Motor Sport Federations have recently upped their involvement in digital motor sports events.

In his letter, Member of the FIA Closed Road Commission and managing partner in the CODASUR championship and Touring & Automobile Club Paraguay Francisco Peroni, talks about the exceptional solidarity experienced among the motor sport community in Paraguay in the wake of the Covid-19 crisis.

The Automobile Club of Andorra (ACA) announced that it will provide each Andorran Red Cross volunteer with a one-year membership card for free.

The Austrian Grand Prix inaugurated this year’s Formula 1 season, in what was the first major international sporting event since the Covid-19 crisis. Prior to the resumption of racing, Dr Harald Hertz, President of the Austrian Motorsport Federation (AMF) and Vice President of the Austrian Motoring and Touring Club (ÖAMTC), outlined the work undertaken to get back on track.