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Here's my weekly update for July 2, 2024 on what was featured in last week's News Racers Can Use on Motorsport Prospects.

Concussions in motorsport are not an issue that drivers are as aware of as participants in other sports so the FIA has launched a concussion awareness program which was covered last week. If you missed it, here is your chance to catch up on this important topic.

FIA Launches Concussion Awareness Campaign

As mentioned in the intro, the FIA has launched a concussion awareness campaign which is designed to educate and raise awareness of concussions, including signs, symptoms, and red flags to further protect motorsport competitors. Full details can be found in last week's edition of the Driver Development Roundup. Click here to read the details.

How B2B Relationships Work in Motorsport

How B2B relationships work in motorsport is critical to understand in order to better prepare your sponsorship proposal to address a business need. This is just one of the articles linked to in last week’s The Business of Being a Race Driver. Click here to read them all.

Racing Spec Miata on a Budget

Last week in the Racecraft & Race Cars Roundup I had details on how one race driver raced Spec Miata on an extremely low budget. I also featured a pre-race routine you can use to ensure optimal performance plus what’s coming to the LMP2 class. Click here to read this and all the racecraft tips from last week.

Williams F1 Partners with Racing Prodigy

Williams F1 has partnered with Racing Prodigy in an exciting development that will see them as the first team in the inaugural season of the Prodigy Racing League. As the trend of going from sim racing to real world racing accelerates, I anticipate we will see more moves like this in the future. Click here to read all the sim racing developments from last week.

FG Series Launches the All-Electric FG-Twin

The FG Series has launched their all-electric dual-mode FG Twin, a race car that could revolutionize motorsport and I had all the details in last week’s Sustainable Motorsport Roundup. I also had news on EVs conquering Pikes Peak, a sustainable fuel-powered Radical and an insight into the new hybrid Indycar engine. Click here to read the latest sustainable high performance news.

Arbitration Panel Clears Haas F1 of Contract Breach with Uralkali

Finally, in last week's Business of Motorsport Roundup I had the details on how a Swiss arbitration panel has cleared Haas F1 of breaching their contract with Nikita Mazepin sponsor Uralkali but must refund the portion of the sponsor fee attributable to the time after the contract was lawfully terminated. This was just one of the cases covered in last week’s Motorsport Law Roundup as part of the Business of Motorsport Roundup. Click here to read all of last week's business news that racers can use.

The Week Ahead

Despite this week featuring Canada Day and Independence Day in North America you can expect a full week of News Racers Can Use with the usual selection of racecraft tips as well as some great actionable advice on finding motorsport sponsorship. And there are exciting developments coming in the weeks ahead! Thanks as always for reading.

Quote of the Week

"To achieve anything in this game, you must be prepared to dabble in the boundary of disaster.”

-Stirling Moss

The Last Lap

A secret VW Formula 1 engine could have taken the racing world by storm in the 1980s, according to its developers. But a mysterious veil was drawn over the project after it was abruptly canned. Motorsport Magazine investigated to find out why.

“The output of a high-power engine comes from the speed at which you can run it — and the smaller the cylinder the faster you can run it,” he says. “This VR8, an eight cylinder with only one head with these stacked cylinders, would give you an enormously compact and light machine, so the power-weight ratio would be superior. The power density is the key number here.”

Enjoy,

Mark

Publisher - Motorsport Prospects