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Changing tracks: The Yellow Pages South African Grand Prix in 1993 at the Kyalami Grand Prix Circuit in Kyalami drew the crowds. (Pascal Rondeau/Getty Images)
AUSTRALIA

F1 flirts with a return to SA

Motosport’s top competition is dropping hints of coming back, but would we want this to happen?

  • Luke Feltham
8 min read
Pride and prejudice: South African racing driver Desiré Wilson is the only woman ever to have won a Formula 1 race. She, just like other women after her, battled to secure the vast sponsorships needed in the ‘rich man’s sport’. (Graham Morris/ Evening Standard/Hulton Archive/Getty Images)
BRAKPAN

Desiré Wilson: Fast but forgotten

The South African is the only woman to ever win an F1 race, but her career was slowed down by political and financial barriers

  • Luke Feltham
8 min read