• woelkchen@lemmy.world
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    3 months ago

    asking the sport’s bosses “why are we not in Africa?”.

    Money. Lewis can afford to sponsor it if he cares about it.

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      3 months ago

      Lewis doesn’t even want to pay income taxes. These races are festivals of graft and corruption.

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      3 months ago

      They didn’t ask Verstappen to sponsor the Dutch GP, so why does Lewis have to be the one financing or making the case for a race in a region where he has plenty of fans?

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        They didn’t ask Verstappen to sponsor the Dutch GP

        Zandvoort secured the funding, then pulled out after Verstappen said he’ll not be in F1 for much longer.

        so why does Lewis have to be the one financing or making the case for a race in a region where he has plenty of fans?

        Because he said he wants a race to be there.

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          3 months ago

          Ok, so if Zandvoort was able to finance a race on the basis of fan following alone without Max’s involvement, why can’t someone do the same here?

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            3 months ago

            why can’t someone do the same here?

            Ask the owners of all the courses that don’t host F1 races in Africa.

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              Afaik there arecurrently zero courses with the necessary FIA grading of Grade 1 in Africa. Morocco has multiple Grade 2 circuits, and Kyalami used to be Grade 2 but that expired a year ago, so they are currently ungraded.

              That means that in order to be eligible for an F1 race, these courses would need to modernize and undergo an FIA process.

              I personally assume that due to this, any African race we could get would be a street track.