F1 fans under twenty years do not remember, but maybe others … The latest winner of a Formula 1 Grand Prix in South Africa was a French.

On March 14, 1993, Alain Prost won the race held on the Kyalami circuit located in the north of Johannesburg.
Twenty years later, the cars could make a comeback in South African land, but this time, 1,500 kilometers south in Cape Town.

Against all odds, Cape excluded the possibility of hosting the Grand Prix of South Africa. The city refused the proposal of the head of FOM (Formula One Management), Bernie Ecclestone, who was organizing a Grand Prix again in the land of Nelson Mandela.
FOM boss expressed last week his wish 22 races in a season. Last Tuesday, the British businessman has called foot to South Africa: “If I had the choice, I think I’d go back in South Africa, including Cape Town. I received an offer for Durban but I think Cape would be better.”

But Anton Goenewald in charge of tourism in Cape Town, immediately handed the treasurer in his place: “We do not want to see F1 land in our city because it would cost too much money to taxpayers.”

South Africa has already organized 23 F1 Grand Prix, three on the East London circuit, and twenty on the Kyalami between 1967 and 1993.