An idiom about London buses may well apply to the current wait for a grand prix in Africa: you wait for years for one nation to apply, and two unveil their statements of intent within a few months of each other. Rwanda launched an official bid to join the Formula 1 calendar last year with a circuit on the outskirts of Kigali, while South Africa has also thrown its hat (back) in the ring by opening its own bid process for someone to organise its return to hosting races.
For those who subscribe to the view that a world championship should feature all six permanently inhabited continents across the globe, this is welcome news. F1 hasn’t had a full-house of continents on the calendar since 1993, obviously excluding Antarctica as a fully homologated set of Pirelli snow tyres does not currently exist.
