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FIA Institute CMO Seminar - Day 2

Posted by Matthew Mac Partlin on Friday, January 6, 2017, In : Conferences, courses & events 

The Christmas and New Year holidays are over and having spent some enjoyable time with the family poncing about, it's time to get back to work. Here is my summary of Day 2 of the FIA Institute Medicine in Motorsport CMO seminar held as part of the FIA AGA in Vienna at the beginning of December.

The first half of the day was composed of an opening speech by Jean Todt (which I missed) and four workshops. After lunch there were five free papers presented followed by the closing speech. After a so...

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FIA Institute CMO Seminar 2016 - Day 1

Posted by Matthew Mac Partlin on Wednesday, December 14, 2016, In : Conferences, courses & events 


Two weeks ago I was sitting in an apartment in the middle of the Vienna Naschmarkt, having flown in at 6am that morning from Australia to attend the biennial FIA Institute Medicine in Motorsport Chief Medical Officer's seminar. Traditionally, while there are a handful of exceptions, this is a fairly passive affair consisting of a series of talks and a couple of fairly didactic workshops (SMACC it is not).

Two years ago a small bonfire was lit when Dr Sean Petherbridge (CMO for the Abu Dhabi F...


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A medical publication from the FIA Institute (and a survey)

Posted by Matthew Mac Partlin on Friday, September 4, 2015, In : Notifications 
It's been an interesting and busy few months and I'll get into all that has been happening in due course. But let's start off with this.

The FIA (Federation International d'Automobile), like any organisation that sets itself up as the prime authority in a given field, cops a fair bit of criticism for many things. That said, within and around the organisation there are plenty of smart, progressive individuals. (I say "around" because not everyone who works with the FIA is necessarily an FIA em...

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Motorsport Safety Reseach Scholarship

Posted by Matthew Mac Partlin on Thursday, April 23, 2015, In : Notifications 


Well, this is a bit new. If you are a doctor or engineer in training, are thinking about how to combine this with your interest in motorsport and you have somewhere between nine and eighteen months spare to fill with something a bit different, the FIA are offering a scholarship that you might want to think about.

Here's the deal. The FIA are looking to churn through their existing research and maybe get a few new projects going. So they are offering a scholarship position with the newly establ...

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FIA Institute Medicine in Motorsport Summit 2014

Posted by Matthew Mac Partlin on Wednesday, December 17, 2014, In : Conferences, courses & events 


Well, I'm back in Sydney after 5 days in Doha, Qatar, attending the FIA Institute's Medicine in Motorsport Summit, which is run parallel to the FIA's Annual General Assembly. The AGA is where the year is reviewed and the technical specifications and regulations for the next year's season are finalised. It finishes off with the prize-giving ceremony for the various championship categories, including Formula One, World Rally Championship and World Endurance Championship.

Similarly, at the biannu...

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FIA Serious Accident Study Group - Singapore October 2014

Posted by Matthew Mac Partlin on Monday, December 8, 2014, In : Conferences, courses & events 
Running targeted workshops has become a bit of a favourite activity of the FIA Institute. This is a good thing, as they have amassed a wealth of information from the variety of motorsport categories that they sanction and there are some very bright and keen people working with them.

At the beginning of the year there was the Extrication Workshop held at the 24 Heures Du Mans circuit. The Serious Accident Study Group was held in October in Singapore and only a few weeks later there was the Pan...

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Medical response at Formula 1: Insider

Posted by Matthew Mac Partlin on Wednesday, May 21, 2014, In : Musings and opinion 


For anyone who doesn't already know, Dr Gary Hartstein, the previous FIA Medical Rescue Co-ordinator who rode shotgun with Alan van der Merwe in the Mercedes AMG C63 station wagon at the back of the grid for each F1 start, has moved on from mere tweeting and now writes his own blog, A Former F1 Doc Writes.


More recently, he has started a series of posts on how a medical response to a racing incident is articulated. The posts give an insight into how the process is managed at the very highest l...

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Formula 4 comes to Australia in 2014

Posted by Matthew Mac Partlin on Sunday, January 19, 2014, In : Technical developments 
Posted by Matthew Mac Partlin on Sunday, December 15, 2013 


Formula 4 has been confirmed as the new stepping stone in progression in open-wheel race car competition in Australia. So here is a summary of the key items of this new formula, with a focus on the elements that impact on medical and rescue provision.

The aim is to keep cost to a minimum, to encourage young talent to progress through the ranks to Formula 3 and on to Formula 1. That doesn't mean it will be particularly c...
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Hugh Scully on TEDx

Posted by Matthew Mac Partlin on Sunday, January 19, 2014, In : Conferences, courses & events 
Posted by Matthew Mac Partlin on Wednesday, May 29, 2013

TED talks have established themselves as a major medium for transmitting ideas and knowledge. Starting in 1990 as a means of sharing design and technology topics, they have expanded into all aspects of thought, opinion and project with presentations from all walks of life. The TED motto is "ideas worth sharing" and speakers are given about 20 minutes for their presentation.

Following on the success of TED talks, the TED franchise has been...
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FIA Annual General Assembly Istanbul 2012

Posted by Matthew Mac Partlin on Saturday, January 18, 2014, In : Conferences, courses & events 
Posted by Matthew Mac Partlin on Wednesday, December 12, 2012

Last week I went to the FIA Annual General Assembly, which was held in Istanbul, Turkey. It ran for a week and the first day and a half were, for the first time, given over to medical and rescue aspects of motor sports, under the title of Medicine in Motor Sport. And it was pretty good.



Monday morning was a Chief Medical Officers' seminar, which consisted of a report from each of the major FIA categories (F1, WRC, WTCC and WEC) and a...
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FIA requests formal tender for promotion of the WRC

Posted by Matthew Mac Partlin on Saturday, January 18, 2014, In : Notifications 
Posted by Matthew Mac Partlin on Thursday, February 9, 2012

Most people with an interest in motor sports, especially rally, will be aware that the WRC lost its promoter when North One Sport had its contract terminated by the FIA at the end of last year. This occurred after North One Sport's parent company,  Convers Sports Initiatives, went into receivership. (Slight problem with alleged fraud by two of its directors.) Eurosport is currently filling the breach, but this is a temporary arrangem...
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A history of race suits

Posted by Matthew Mac Partlin on Saturday, January 18, 2014, In : Musings and opinion 
Posted by Matthew Mac Partlin on Tuesday, January 17, 2012

There's a summarised history of race suit development on the F1 GP website, that charts the transition from the cotton pants and shirt of the gentleman racer to the two-layer nomex with undergarments worn by today's speed demons. The article also names one Paul Trafford, a UK surgeon who has been involved in motorsports medicine for about 25 years and has worked alongside the likes of Sid Watkins and Terry Trammel. Traf has taken on th...
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FIA summarises WRC 2012 regulation updates

Posted by Matthew Mac Partlin on Saturday, January 18, 2014, In : Regulations developments 
Posted by Matthew Mac Partlin on Tuesday, January 17, 2012

The FIA have updated the WRC regulations for the 2012 season. They mainly affect the starting order in gravel events, including determining the starting order through use of a Qualifying Session. Other changes include the changing of the Super-Rally rules title to Rally 2, clarification of the numbers of engines and sets of tyres allowed per event and the status of priority 1, 2 and 3 drivers.

For more details, go here:
http://www.fia.c...
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Rally Australia CoC awarded FIA Senior Official of the Season

Posted by Matthew Mac Partlin on Saturday, January 18, 2014, In : Musings and opinion 
Posted by Matthew Mac Partlin on Tuesday, January 17, 2012

Michelle Gatton, a former rally driver, has been officiating for Australian and Asia-Pacific rally events for more than 10 years. This year she was the Clerk of Course for the Rally Australia stage of the 2011 WRC season. For her efforts, she was recently awarded the FIA Outstanding Senior Official of the Season.

You can read more about Michelle and her award here:
http://www.cams.com.au/en/Media/News/2011/Australian_named_FIA_Outstandi...
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Michelle Mouton gets Knighted

Posted by Matthew Mac Partlin on Saturday, January 18, 2014, In : Notifications 
Posted by Matthew Mac Partlin on Saturday, January 7, 2012

Former WRC driver, Michelle Mouton, received the Chevalier of the Legion of Honor from France's president Nicolas Sarkozy just prior to Christmas, for her services to motorsports. She was the last woman to compete in the WRC, having followed a very successful career.

Starting as a co-driver, she switched to the driver's seat of a Renault Alpine A110. She competed most famously behind the wheel of the awesome Audi Quattro and , having ...
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Medicine in Motor Sport, the movie (well ... the textbook, to start with)

Posted by Matthew Mac Partlin on Thursday, January 16, 2014, In : Musings and opinion 
Posted by Matthew Mac Partlin on Thursday, June 30, 2011

Anyone who has visited the FIA or FIA Institute websites in the last 3 months, or has read the most recent edition of the ASMMR Newsletter will be aware that the FIA have published the Gary Hartstein edited textbook  "Medicine in Motor Sport". You can read it online on the FIA Institute website or buy it for your e-reader from Amazon at www.amazon.com/dp/B004XJ6BQG. I'm planning on putting aside some time to leaf through it over the next...
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