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Ecclestone keen to take F1 back to South Africa
Bernie Ecclestone has admitted that he is keen to get South Africa back on the F1 schedule along with a second race in the United States.Although Grands Prix were held in South Africa prior to 1962, it was that year's event which was the country's first race to count as part of the official Formula One World Championship.In the 70s and 80s the Kyalami circuit regularly hosted the Grand Prix until it slipped off the calendar after 1985 (pictured), the sport no longer able to resist the growing global condemnation of apartheid.In the wake of the end of apartheid the sport returned again in 1992 and 1993 but by then the sheer cost of hosting a round of the world championship meant the...
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