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Viva Energy Group Ltd.
06/10/2021 | Press release | Distributed by Public on 06/11/2021 00:51
Viva Energy Announces Partnership with Racing Together
Today Viva Energy announced a new partnership with Racing Together, a forward-thinking program to help Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander youth become involved in motorsport.
Over the course of the three-year partnership, more than 130 participants will receive two days of intensive training in advanced driving, motorsport, racing, wellbeing, self-esteem and STEM subjects.
Each year, 10 participants will be selected to form a racing team. With financial support from Viva Energy, the Racing Together program will seek to train, mentor and support Indigenous youth to seek careers or engagement in the supercar category.
Currently there are no high-profile Indigenous figures in Australian motorsport, despite the fact the $2.9 billion industry is estimated to generate around 30,000 jobs.
The goal of the Racing Together program is to have 30 Indigenous Australians working in the sector within five years and 1,000 within 15 years.
Viva Energy, which is the exclusive licensee of the Shell brand in Australia, has an association with motorsport spanning back over 50 years through Dick Johnson Racing.
Vince Neville, Viva Energy's General Manager of Distribution Supply Chain, said he is delighted the company is able to support a program that promotes the future of motorsport while providing educational and employment opportunities for Indigenous Australian youth.
'The partnership between Racing Together and Viva Energy ties in closely with our vision for reconciliation as a nation where Indigenous people have equal and equitable opportunities to reach their destination,' Mr Neville said. 'We hope that through our involvement in this program, Viva Energy will be able to drive more equitable opportunities and representation in motorsports.'
Racing Together Board member Ryan Story is also the Chairman of the Dick Johnson Racing team. Mr Story said the program promotes and facilitates reconciliation, respect, trust, integration and to change attitudes within motorsport. He said the program will help Indigenous youth seek careers as drivers, team members, mechanics, strategists and engineers or to act as motorsport officials or administrators.
The program, which operates with the support of Queensland's Department of Employment, Small Business and Training, will provide participants with expert instruction on how to drive, racing safety, driving attitudes and the racing environment on track.
It will also involve classroom-based training on social responsibility, including the obligation to continue with normal education studies, road safety, careers in motorsport, personal health, safety and wellbeing and elementary vehicle mechanics.
Study also covers diet and nutrition, physical preparedness, CPR and first aid.
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About Viva Energy
Viva Energy is one of Australia's leading energy companies and supplies approximately a quarter of the country's liquid fuel requirements. It is the exclusive supplier of high quality Shell fuels and lubricants in Australia through an extensive network of more than 1,300 service stations across the country.
Viva Energy Australia owns and operates the strategically located Geelong Refinery in Victoria, and operates bulk fuels, aviation, bitumen, marine, chemicals and lubricants businesses supported by more than 20 terminals and 50 airports and airfields across the country.
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