Frédéric Sausset will launch the SRT41 Academy

It’s on the sidelines of the film premiere The race in the lead, retracing the adventure of Team SRT41.com, from the genesis of the project to concluding with the arrival of the 24 Hours of Le Mans on June 18, the quadruple-amputee pilot presented his new project for disabled people yesterday near Blois.

Through days of driving in parallel with the Tinseau Days, meetings organized by his accomplice Christophe Tinseau, the SRT41 Academy must in particular “allow people with disabilities to rediscover the pleasure of driving” as the main instigator recalled.

The initiative is part of a more ambitious project that Frédéric Sausset has also outlined, and which aims to bring disabled drivers to a high level in motorsport. The support of the Automobile Club de l’Ouest via president Pierre Fillon and Vincent Beaumesnil, sports director present during the film presentation, is recorded.

A session will be organized on November 19 in Magny-Cours, with Marie-Amélie Le Fur as godmother, double Paralympic champion in the 400m and long jump at the Rio Paralympic Games in Brazil.

During the preview evening, Jean Todt, president of the FIA, Dr Wolfgang Ullrich, boss of Audi Sport, and Benoît Tréluyer, Audi Sport driver in WEC, despite their absence, wanted to send their congratulations to Frédéric Sausset via video messages. La course en tete, lasting 54′, can be discovered on RMC Découverte (TNT channel 24) on December 3.

For more information, one tab SRT41 Academy was created on the SRT41.com website.