Race Stewards Biographies
French Grand Prix · 2018
RACE STEWARDS BIOGRAPHIES
GARRY CONNELLY
DIRECTOR, GLOBAL INSTITUTE FOR MOTOR SPORT SAFETY; DIRECTOR, AUSTRALIAN INSTITUTE OF MOTOR SPORT SAFETY; F1, WTCC STEWARD; FIA WORLD MOTOR SPORT COUNCIL MEMBER
Garry Connelly has been involved in motor sport since the late 1960s. A long- time rally competitor, Connelly was instrumental in bringing the World Rally Championship to Australia in 1988 and served as Chairman of the Organising Committee, Board member and Clerk of Course of Rally Australia until December 2002. He has been an FIA Steward and FIA Observer since 1989, covering the FIA’s World Rally Championship, World Touring Car Championship and Formula One Championship. He is a director of the Australian Institute of Motor Sport Safety and of the Global Institute of Motor Sport Safety. He is a member of the FIA World Motor Sport Council.
ENZO SPANO
PRESIDENT OF THE SPORTING COMMISSION OF THE AUTOMOBILE AND TOURING CLUB OF VENEZUELA
Italian-born Vincenzo Spano grew up in Venezuela, where he went on to study at the Universidad Central de Venezuela, becoming an attorney-at-law. Spano has wide-ranging experience in motor sport, from national to international level. He has worked for the Touring y Automóvil Club de Venezuela since 1991, and served as President of the Sporting Commission since 2001. He was president for two terms and now sits as a member of the Board of the Nacam- FIA zone. Since 1995 Spano has been a licenced steward and obtained his FIA steward superlicence in 2003. Spano has been involved with the FIA and FIA Institute in various roles since 2001: a member of the World Motor Sport Council, the FIA Committee, and the executive committee of the FIA Institute.
YANNICK DALMAS
1992 WORLD SPORTSCAR CHAMPION, 1986 FRENCH F3 CHAMPION, FOUR TIMES LE MANS WINNER, F1 DRIVER
During a long racing career, Yannick Dalmas excelled in many forms of motorsport. Most famously, he won the 24 Hours of Le Mans four times in the 1990s, each with a different manufacturer. In 1992, alongside fellow FIA Steward Derek Warwick, he became World Sportscar Champion. As an open- wheel driver, he won the French F3 title in 1986 and, between 1987 and 1994, he participated in 49 F1 grands prix, driving for Larrousse and AGS. In recent years Dalmas has been an FIA Driver Advisor to the Stewards in WEC. This is his debut as a Formula One steward. He is a native of the Var region in France.