World Superbike plants a tree

From worldsbk.com

The FIM has taken the step of promoting environmental concerns to the very top of its priority list and to underline the message it has instigated a World Environmental Day, Friday May 30, which kicked off at the first ever Miller Motorsports Park WSB round.

At approximately 5:15pm three World Superbike riders, Carlos Checa, Max Neukirchner and Troy Bayliss got things underway by planting three ash trees at Miller, as a symbol of the birth of this new initiative, and optimism for the future.

The FIM President, Vito Ippolito, has delivered a message in the subject of World Environmental Day, and one salient part of his new vision reads thus, "The quest for alternative energy and alternative fuel technology is this century's most imperative challenge, one we cannot procrastinate any longer.

"The FIM has taken this challenge upon itself regarding its pertaining field of action within motorcycle racing and motorcyclists gathering and the Greenhouse Gas Emissions. A highly qualified group of FIM members has been selected to analyze and study all technological innovations that could contribute to a possible solution to this most pressing problem of our times".