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Toyota donates F1 car to FIA Institute

Tsutomu Tomita, Chairman and Team Principal of Panasonic Toyota Racing, will present a Toyota TF105 show car to the FIA Institute at the inaugural FIA Institute Safety Summit at the Paul Ricard circuit on January 18, 2007.

The F1 car presented by Toyota will be a tool for the FIA Institute's international extrication training programme for medical and safety officials working in single seater racing.

The TF105 car will be used to improve techniques of driver extrication following accidents, and has been specially modified with a jig fitted to allow the FIA Institute to easily roll the car upside down, while the roll hoop camera has been removed.

It features a modified driver's seat to fit a crash test dummy into the cockpit and a dummy steering wheel. Instead of an engine, a steel frame has been included in the rear of the car to simulate the size and weight of a Formula 1 engine. The car features Bridgestone tyres and Takata safety restraints in line with Toyota's 2007 specifications.

Professor Gerard Saillant, Deputy President of the FIA Institute commented on Toyota's gift: "We are grateful for the support that the FIA Institute has received from Toyota in helping us to achieve our safety training objectives. The generous donation of an F1 car will help to enhance the training of motor sport safety officials.

"We are also grateful to Toyota for sharing their approach to safety with us in our conference sessions. The level of knowledge and experience of all our guest speakers promises a very high quality discussion at this our first Safety Summit.

Tsutomu Tomita, Chairman and Team Principal of Panasonic Toyota Racing said: "I am very pleased to be able to hand over this car to the FIA Institute and contribute to the future of safety in Formula 1. Safety is very important to us and we will do whatever we can to help the FIA and the FIA Institute in their work to make Formula 1 and motor sport in general safer."

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