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Continuation of the DMSB Academy programme to raise the competency of existing motor sport officials and to attract new officials to the sport.
Deutscher Motor Sport Bund E.V. (DMSB) proposed to continue the work of the DMSB Academy the programme established to train existing motor sport officials and designed to encourage those interested in the sport to become officials. The Academy concept began in 2015, with the aim of improving the training the DMSB offered to motor sport officials by relying less on external platforms to share information and to provide stronger teaching courses with an emphasis on on-site safety training. Since then the ASN has each year taken advantage of grant assistance to refine and continue the programme. For 2019 the DMSB proposed for 100 new training participants and for 500 officials who would take part in retraining exercises, once again with the aim of increasing the competency and number of officials. The DMSB is an FIA Regional Training Provider for Officials and Medical.
DEUTSCHER MOTOR SPORT BUND E.V. (DMSB)
AUTOMOVIL CLUB DE GUATEMALA (ACG) Expansion of the ACG’s long-term plan to grow grassroots motor sport to include a multi-level karting programme with top drivers heading to national championship competition.
For more than six years the Automovil Club de Guatemala (ACG) has pursued a long-term plan to develop grassroots motor sport in the country, beginning with a programme to grow grassroots motor sport events, introduce mandatory theoretical safety classes for all auto and kart drivers and train officials and volunteers. In 2018 the ASN then launched its ‘Race School’ initiative to promote participation of grassroots categories in national championship events to increase participation by 25%. For 2019 the ASN proposed to expand the programme to include a multi-level karting programme. At the end of the programme 30 participants would go into a national karting championship, and overall 180 participants would be trained in karts and touring cars.
Development of a karting programme aimed at younger children in order to grow grassroots motor sport participation.
Following its 2016 initiative to partner with two other ASNs, Club Automovilistico de Nicaragua (CAN) and Automovil Club de El Salvador (ACES) and undertake a cluster training programme for race directors, stewards and marshals, predominantly in karting, in 2019 Asociacion Hondurena de Automovilismo Deportivo (AHAD) targeted the launch of a programme to encourage more people to compete in the karting category. The programme would see the ASN develop a karting school for 15 participants. The focus of the programme would be on younger competitors as the ASN has found that at present most of the drivers taking part in kart racing in Honduras are young adults. The ASN planned to work with OMDAI FIA Mexico as its Regional Training Provider. At the end of its first year of operation the programme would culminate in a three-race championship.
