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Tanzania
Developing an accessible and affordable 4X4 discipline to meet demand for off-road competition and training officials for the new competition.
With the aim of providing the country with a new motor sport opportunity for competitors that is both accessible and affordable, the Automobile Association of Tanzania (AAT) proposed to introduce a new 4x4 discipline. AAT would work with Motorsport South Africa as its Regional Training Provider and the work would encompass event creation and a training programme for officials. As part of the project, AAT representatives, guided by MSA officials, would visit Zimbabwe to further their eventspecific training, to better understand best practice in event creation and to boost their organisational skills. With Tanzania already a round of the African Rally Championship, the national sporting authority’s overall goal is to boost engagement in motor sport on a national level while keeping costs to a minimum.
AUTOMOBILE ASSOCIATION OF TANZANIA (AAT)
FEDERATION TUNISIENNE DE L’AUTOMOBILE (FTA) Implementing a training programme for officials as part of ongoing efforts to improve consistency of event management and to boost safety in motor sport nationally.
With the aim of further upskilling on-event officials, the Federation Tunisienne de l’Automobile (FTA) proposed a new safety training programme for motor sport officials, designed to accommodate 50 participants. In the short term the programme would improve the competency of motor sport officials to increase the safety of motor sport events, with the longer term goal being to attract more officials and competitors to Tunisian motor sport. FTA would work with Regional Training Provider the Automobile et Touring Club du Liban as part of the programme. The project would constitute a continuation of FTA’s multiyear efforts to improve safety and management training for officials. Additionally, the FTA would acquire additional timing equipment for use in national events.
Cluster programme involving India, Sri Lanka and Nepal aimed at raising the level of female participation in motor sport through implementation of the FIA’s Girls on Track programme.
Following a rally officials training programme in 2017 and a 2018 initiative to upgrade the Kari Motor Speedway, in 2019 the Federation of Motor Sports Clubs of India (FMSCI) proposed a cluster programme with Sri Lanka and Nepal to increase female participation in motor sport. The programme would see the three countries launch an FIA Girls on Track programme for approximately 300 participants. The Clubs would engage in a social media campaign to get young girls interested in karting and rather than simply encouraging girls with an outing in a kart the campaign would also teach driving and safety equipment tips. The programme would take place across four cities in India, one in Sri Lanka and one in Nepal and after the completion of six karting slaloms in the six locations a final would take place after which the top 12 girls would be invited to race in a Girls on Track karting series, while the overall winner would receive a fullysponsored drive in India’s National Karting Championship.
MOTORSPORT UK Cluster programme involving the United Kingdom, Germany and Australia to provide for the launch of the Dare to be Different/ Girls on Track programme.
In partnership with Germany’s DMSB and Australia’s CAMS, Britain’s Motorsport UK launched the Dare to be Different programme in 2018 with the goal of inspiring the next generation of young women to break through preconceptions about motor sport and to consider the sport as a genuine career option, both on and off the track. For 2019 Motorsport UK aimed to continue the initiative. The ASN would work closely with partners in the cluster to promote the training programme to community members in each country. At each Dare to be Different event the girls are divided into groups and take part in a range of activities, including karting, a STEM competition, a pit stop challenge, as well as media and fitness training. For the expanded 2019 programme the Clubs intended to run seven events in the UK, five in Germany and eight in Australia, as well as 10 events around significant motor sport events in each territory.
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