Date:27/06/2008 URL: http://www.thehindu.com/2008/06/27/stories/2008062761501900.htm

Sport - Racing : Motor

FIA transfers sporting power to FMSCI

Chennai: The International Motor Sport Federation (FIA) has transferred the sporting power in India to the Federation of Motor Sports Club of India (FMSCI) from Motor Sports Association of India (MAI) effective from July 1, 2008.

In a communication to the President, FMSCI, Pierre de Coninck, Secretary General FIA Sport, has said “By virtue of the mandate that had been entrusted to it by the FIA General Assembly of 28 October 2005 in pursuance of article 16.2 of the FIA Statutes, further to the resolutions adopted during its meeting of 26 March 2008, and having taken into consideration the latest information communicated before the meeting as to the state of the negotiations between the two organisations FMSCI and MAI, the World Motor Sport Council has decided to transfer the sporting power in India from the MAI to the FMSCI.”