{"id":10061,"date":"2025-01-31T18:17:36","date_gmt":"2025-01-31T18:17:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/f1-in-africa-rwanda-and-south-africa-bid-to-host-race-from-2027\/"},"modified":"2025-01-31T18:17:36","modified_gmt":"2025-01-31T18:17:36","slug":"f1-in-africa-rwanda-and-south-africa-bid-to-host-race-from-2027","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/f1-in-africa-rwanda-and-south-africa-bid-to-host-race-from-2027\/","title":{"rendered":"F1 in Africa: Rwanda and South Africa bid to host race from 2027"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Rwanda and South Africa are bidding to bring Formula 1 back to Africa for the first time since 1993.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">However, both countries face several hurdles before reigning world champion Max Verstappen and the rest of the grid will race on the continent.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\"><i class=\"ssrcss-xbdn93-ItalicText e5tfeyi2\">Reporter: Kelvin Kimathi.<\/i><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\"><i class=\"ssrcss-xbdn93-ItalicText e5tfeyi2\">Camera and editing: Thuthuka Zondi.<\/i><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/formula1\/articles\/cq8k55exqvko\" class=\"ssrcss-1kta2ux-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\">READ MORE: Rwanda and South Africa race to bring F1 back to Africa<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/formula1\/videos\/cvgljpz51v1o\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rwanda and South Africa are bidding to bring Formula 1 back to Africa for the first time since 1993. However, both countries face several hurdles before reigning world champion Max Verstappen and the rest of the grid will race on the continent. Reporter: Kelvin Kimathi. Camera and editing: Thuthuka Zondi. READ MORE: Rwanda and South [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":10062,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10061","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-formula1"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10061","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10061"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10061\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10063,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10061\/revisions\/10063"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10062"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10061"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10061"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10061"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}