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SUSTAINABILITY NEWS

Motorsport UK is a member of the British Association for Sustainable Sport( BASIS), a UK non-profit organisation dedicated to making sports more sustainable by educating, engaging, and empowering clubs, venues, governing bodies, and fans to reduce environmental impact and create positive social change.

The BASIS Awards are a celebration of sustainability in sport, spotlighting innovative projects, partnerships, and individuals driving progress in climate action, community

engagement, and nature conservation across all levels of sport, from grassroots to elite organisations.

ecoRally Scotland, the UK round of the Bridgestone FIA Eco Rally Cup has been shortlisted for under the category‘ Initiative of the Year’. This is for standout campaigns, programmes or projects that have inspired positive environmental social action.

Head of Sustainability at Motorsport UK Jessica Runicles will join other leading sports organisations at the GSBS Awards later this month.

The Global Sustainability and Benchmark in Sport( GSBS) encourages professional sports organisations to be transparent and sustainable. It makes them aware of their impact through their actions and helps them to use their prominent position in society to fulfil their responsibilities as modern business organisations – at no costs for these organisations.

The GSBS Rating is the only internationally accepted and respected ESG / sustainability rating in the sports industry, which is used by numerous sponsors, investors, and financial institutions as an additional tool for decision-making and risk mitigation. It takes more than 1,700 data point into account and provides a holistic picture of the organisations ' effective sustainability performance- purely data-based.

" Motorsport UK participates in the GSBS rating because it is a very useful tool to benchmark our Environmental, Social, and Governance performance across motorsport and widely across other sports internationally," said Runicles. " We are proud that motorsport has traditionally scored strongly and we want to ensure that we hold ourselves accountable to high performance around sustainability." In 2024, Motorsport UK was ranked 5th( overall) and received a Silver classification.

The last month’ s meeting of the FIA World Motor Sport Council included the expansion of the existing e-karting technical regulations governing e-karting mini which was introduced in October 2023. Following the approval of these regulations, electric drivetrains can now be homologated by the FIA with the maximum total power produced by the Rechargeable Energy Storage System limited to 23kW in the Junior class and 28kW in the Senior class. E-karting offers a fresh and dynamic racing category and contributes to the growing number of FIA championships and competitions utilising sustainable energy sources.

Silverstone publishes 2024 report

The third edition of Silverstone’ s Sustainability Report reflects upon a year of innovation, growth, and transformation at the circuit. Highlights include the integration of environmental, social, and governance( ESG) principles, from carbon reduction and team education to ethical governance, driving towards a more sustainable motorsport future. FIA Sustainability and Diversity & Inclusion Report released

The FIA’ s 2024 Sustainability and Diversity & Inclusion Report publicises its collective efforts to embed positive change across motorsport and mobility.

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