V8 Supercars drivers support FIA's Action for Road Safety

The V8 Supercars drivers have just completed the fastest laps ever around Mount Panorama, Bathurst, in their race cars - and they want to remind the community to stay safe on the road.

Australia's fastest men are supporting FIA's Action for Road Safety global campaign, which focuses the federation's resources on on helping its member organisations around the globe to educate and advocate for safer roads, vehicles and behaviours.

The 10 Golden Rules of the Action for Road Safety encourage drivers to promise to:

- Belt up- Respect the highway code- Obey the speed limit- Check tyres- Drive sober- Protect children (keeping them safe in car seats)- Pay attention (including not using mobile phones while driving)- Stop when tired- Wear a helmet (if on bike or motorbike)- Be courteous and considerate.

Road safety is fast becoming a global problem with 1.3 million people losing their lives and 50 million others seriously injured annually as a result of road accidents. It is estimated that by 2020 road traffic accidents will claim 2 million lives each year - more then any other global pandemic.

On May 11, 2011, the FIA launched its Action for Road Safety in support of the United Nations' Decade of Action for Road Safety, aiming to lower the alarming figures associated with global road accidents and to spread the safer motoring message. The UN's decade of Action aims to save 5 million lives by 2020.

Central to the campaign are the 10 Golden Rules for Safer Motoring - a set of simple tips intended to help motorists improve their driving behaviour. These rules hope to assist motorists in reaching a golden standard of motoring and to remind them of their responsibilities to themselves, their passengers and all other road users.

The FIA Action for Road Safety campaign has been enthusiastically championed by the motorsport community and well-known figures including Emerson Fittipaldi, Michael Schumacher, Sebastian Vettel, Sbastien Loeb, Yvan Muller and Monisha Kaltenborn.

Along with heads of state, leaders and international opinion formers, who have fiercely backed the campaign's simple message of safer motoring and safer road use, the V8 Supercars communityalso supports theFIA's Action for Road Safety global campaign.