Todt impressed with the 'show'

03/09/2010

FIA president Jean Todt spent last weekend at the Nurburgring, checking on the progress of the FIA GT1 World Championship, and came away impressed.

Todt was on hand for a press conference on Sunday shortly after taking part in a driver autograph signing session to promote the FIA-backed Make Roads Safe campaign.

During the press conference and in subsequent interviews, he gave the FIA's newest world championship a strong personal endorsement.

“There is a lot of enthusiasm, a lot of action and a lot of competition and a good spirit. And I must say that it is a big tribute to what Stephane Ratel has done over the years to prepare this international GT1 World Championship,” he said.

“When something is new you have to put in a lot of effort, we cannot expect to have the tribunes full of spectators, but it's what we need to aim for that and achieve it.

The format of the championship – two, one-hour sprint races and the Balance of Performance tests aimed at levelling the playing field for the GT1 cars – had added to the spectacle he said.

“There is the product, there are the people, the competitors, organisers and promoters. I think that the regulations are made in a way to have cars very close to each other, now we need to make the world aware of this championship.”

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