Toyota Motor Corporation and the Global Institute for Motor Sport Safety have launched a four-year research project using Toyota's Total Human Model for Safety (THUMS) with the aim of enhancing safety in motorsports.The joint research project covers research on collisions involving not only closed-circuit race cars, but also rally cars,...

The FIA Institute has made a potentially life-saving breakthrough in efforts to avoid the kind of rally crash that killed British co-driver Gareth Roberts and left Robert Kubica seriously injured.A device fitted around the open end of a guardrail barrier was tested in Germany recently and successfully avoided cockpit intrusion...