Lewis Hamilton wants grand prix in Africa before retiring

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Lewis Hamilton wants grand prix in Africa before retiring - Lemmy.World

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F1 used to race in Kyalami but that ended because of anti apartheid movement.

Hard to imagine any African country can afford to waste the money to host an F1 race.

Is Lewis willing to pay? I didn’t think so.

Affording a race itself probably isnt the problem, there are various financing models for that. Austria for example certainly isn’t paying for hosting the GP in Spielberg; Red Bull is. Private equity could fund it in South Africa, the government would probably fund it in Rwanda. The problem as I imagine it is probably the investment cost for building/adapting a circuit to get it FIA graded.