Within the round-up: Rwanda’s president Paul Kagame introduced the nation is bidding to host its first System 1 race.
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Rwanda goals to affix F1 calendar
F1 hasn’t raced in Africa because the Kyalami circuit held the final South African Grand Prix in 1993. Kagame mentioned the nation is making “good progress in discussions” with System One Administration CEO Stefano Domenicali.
Talking forward of the annual FIA prize-giving in Kigali, Kagame mentioned: “I’m completely happy to formally announce that Rwanda is bidding to deliver the joys of racing again to Africa by internet hosting the F1 grand prix. An enormous thanks to Stefano and your complete group at F1, for the nice progress in our discussions to this point.”
Martins quickest as check ends
System 2’s three-day post-season testing at Yas Marina concluded with ART’s Victor Martins on prime of the occasions. His finest effort within the morning session of 1’35.773 wasn’t overwhelmed within the afternoon.
Martins additionally introduced out the purple flags when he got here to a cease at flip 13. One other stoppage adopted later within the day when DAMS driver Jak Crawford crashed on the first nook.
Hadjar nonetheless bemused by title-losing stall
System 2 runner-up Isack Hadjar says his Campos group nonetheless can’t clarify why his automotive stalled initially of Sunday’s title-deciding race in Abu Dhabi.
“Misplaced the title earlier than we even received to race,” he mentioned in a submit on social media. “Nonetheless can’t determine the difficulty that brought on us to stall.
“Anyway, I’m high quality with [being] vice champion, however not being [un]capable of struggle for it, I’ll by no means be high quality with that.”
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