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African Grand Prix: By securing the deal Rwanda has ensured that the world’s premier motorsport series will finally race on every inhabited continent. Photo: Formula1
FORMULA 1

Rwanda’s F1 breakthrough: A blueprint for African ambition and a challenge to SA

Rwanda has secured a landmark 10-year deal to host the Formula 1 African Grand Prix from the early 2030s. This historic achievement brings the sport back to the continent for the…

  • Lelo Mzaca
6 min read
Masterclass: Mohammed Ben Sulayem (left), President of the FIA (Fédération Internationale de l'Automobile), Paul Kagame, President of Rwanda and Stefano Domenicali (right), President and CEO of Formula 1.
FORMULA 1

The economic engine driving Rwanda's historic F1 deal

Formula 1 is returning to Africa after Rwanda sealed a landmark 10-year deal with Liberty Media to host the African Grand Prix, turning a high-stakes sporting event into a…

  • Eyaaz Matwadia
6 min read
FORMULA 1

Rwanda secures 10-year Formula 1 deal

Formula 1 has confirmed a historic 10-year deal to return to Africa, with Rwanda set to host the African Grand Prix from the early 2030s rather than South Africa's Kyalami.

  • Eyaaz Matwadia
1 min read
‘No panic’: F1 testing took place in Barcelona this week while Ferrari took precautions against Codiv-19 at its headquarters in Maranello, Italy, an area affected by the coronavirus. (Florent Gooden/DPPI)
FORMULA 1

F1’s African Return via Rwanda Offers Hope, but South Africa Must Push Harder

Rwanda is closing in on a deal to host a Formula 1 Grand Prix from 2030, raising questions about whether South Africa should push harder to bring F1 back to Kyalami.

  • Lelo Mzaca
4 min read
FORMULA 1

Formula 1's luxury makeover is about more than champagne

Formula 1 is increasingly selling luxury, a shift prominently displayed at the 2026 Belgian Grand Prix. Moët & Chandon, in its second year as title sponsor under LVMH's…

  • Lesego Chepape
2 min read
Lewis Hamilton is moving to Ferrari in 2025.
CHARLES LECLAIR

How Hamilton’s move to Ferrari will affect the sports betting market

Nobody is sure how he will cope with the Italian team and cars

  • Partner Content
4 min read
Max Verstappen won the Belgian GP.
CHARLES LE CLERC

Belgian F1 review: The untouchables

Red Bull exerted dominance, with Ferrari still scratching their heads over strategy calls, in an action-packed race. The holidays are over and we’ve missed F1 …

  • Brent van der Schyff
6 min read
EDITORSPICKS

Formula 1 flashback: Hometown disadvantage at Austrian Grand Prix

A Ferrari on fire, a strickened Sainz and a possible chink in the Red Bull armour exposed

  • Brent van der Schyff
6 min read
CANADIAN GRAND PRIX

Beware: ‘The Wall of Champions’ awaits

Montreal is fast and flat but its tricky chicanes tempt drivers to try to obtain some form of advantage

  • Brent van der Schyff
6 min read
Global lockdowns owing to the coronavirus epidemic may have directed traditional sports fans towards their virtual replacements, but the future of both industries remains uncertain.
EA SPORTS

Coronavirus and the virtual sports revolution

In a country with more than 35 000 Covid-19-related deaths at the time of writing and an economy staring into an uncertain abyss, the fate of an incomplete football season really…

  • Daniel Gallan
9 min read
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
ALFA ROMEO

Formula One faces testing times over coronavirus

The F1 world championship, which gets under way in Melbourne on March 15, had already lost the Chinese Grand Prix from its schedule

  • Agency
3 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
Animal lover: Lewis Hamilton previously drew ire on social media when he posted a picture of himself cuddling a lion cub.
FORMULA 1

Hamilton stirs up social media storm with pro-vegan post

The five time world champion said that the only way to save the planet is to go vegan

  • Jean Louis Doublet
4 min read
Niki Lauda won the Formula One drivers’ world championship three times, in 1975 and 1977 for Ferrari and in 1984 with McLaren. (Getty)
FERRARI FORMULA ONE

Sporting world mourns death of ‘true legend’ Niki Lauda

The legendary formula one driver died at the University Hospital Zurich in Switzerland on Monday night surrounded by his closest family members

  • Julia Zappei
5 min read