The FIA has selected twelve pilots on a selection of 18 to join the FIA Institute Young Driver Excellence Academy. Officially, there is a new project to help develop the talents of young drivers worldwide.
This project will start this season before expanding in future years. The goal is to create a training program financed independently, which will allow these young riders to develop skills necessary to their rise in motor sport. The FIA has requested the participation and support of national sports associations to ensure that top talent can have access to this program.
It should be noted that the rally drivers, both those tours, which take part in the program will be supervised by Alex Wurz and Robert Reid, co-pilot of the late Richard Burns. The academy will initially funded by the FIA Foundation and managed by the FIA Institute. The program is quite similar to what the FFSA has implemented or the Red Bull Junior Team, through meetings a week throughout the year to review various aspects, Security in psychology, through nutrition and media skills / management.
If the effort of the FIA is commendable, I probably still somewhat of neutrality might have the FIA after a young program has arrived in F1 or WRC. I am not a proponent of conspiracy theory, but the FIA must ensure that the right of reservation will be complete on this point to avoid controversy.
While waiting to see how this program evolves, this list of the twelve selected pilot:
Vandoorne Stoffel, Philipp Eng, Kevin Abbring, Paul-Loup Chatin, Albert Costa, Alon Day, Robin Frijns, Timmy Hansen, Egon Kaur Andreas Mikkelsen, Alex Rossi and Richie Stanaway.
noted in conclusion that there should be ten, but the selection was increased to not penalize some drivers. Good luck to them!
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