Thursday, September 15, 2011

Race driver models must 'behavior'

Professional racing and rally drivers may face penalties on the line for bad behavior on the streets, has proposed the head of motorsport's governing body.

And the President of the FIA (Federation Internationale de l'Automobile) added education, improved roads and better auto technology all to have a role in reducing the number of deaths worldwide.

Jean Todt, the comments in an interview with the French newspaper Le Parisien, Autocar.co.uk reporting former head who Ferrari Formula 1 team.

Asked by Le Parisien if professional drivers - should provide role models to many - penalties for serious crime on the streets, Todt said: "There is an incompatibility between the status of a model champion, and any breach on the road."

"A driver is a driver of the other."

The comments follow a profile incident at the time of a Australia Grand Prix in March when McLaren's Lewis Hamilton was caught performing 'Burnout' on public roads by Victoria Police, who seized its AMG Mercedes Coupe under strict 'anti-Hoon' laws of the State.

Todt which a priority of its Presidency has made road safety used to mark the interview to the 1.3 million people die on the world every year – describes streets forecasts that two million by 2020 would reach the figure, if no action is taken as "terrible".

He said: "now, with a minimum of dialogue, that [deaths] picture could cut in half."

The FIA has decision makers to address the growing trend in global road deaths significantly in mobilisation that disproportionately, affect young and those who March leben.Im adopted the United Nations in developing countries declare a resolution 2011-2020 a decade of action for road safety '; the end result by the organisation make roads safe campaign campaigns.

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