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F1 urged by DR Congo to finish talks with ‘blood-stained’ Rwanda over internet hosting race
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F1 urged by DR Congo to finish talks with ‘blood-stained’ Rwanda over internet hosting race

By Miles Cooper February 12, 2025
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The Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) has urged System 1 CEO to finish talks with over internet hosting a grand prix sooner or later.

Rwandan president introduced final December, whereas the east African nation hosted the FIA end-of-season awards gala, that Rwanda is an race as the game eyes a return to the African continent for the primary time since 1993. South Africa are additionally to the calendar.

But in a letter seen by The Impartial, the DRC’s minister for overseas affairs Therese Kayiwamva Wagner has requested Domenicali to “finish negotiations and rule Rwanda out as a possible host.”

Tensions have in jap Congo between the DRC military and M23 rebels, with round 2,900 killed since early January, in line with United Nations (UN) figures. Preventing within the mineral-rich area has been ongoing since 2022, with over 400,000 individuals displaced.

Rwanda has been accused by Congo and the UN of supporting M23 with troops and weapons in addition to benefiting from mineral wealth that’s being smuggled into the nation. Rwanda denies this, insisting they merely need to defend their border.

The DRC added that F1 mustn’t look to smear its personal model “by a blood-stained affiliation with Rwanda.”

An F1 spokesperson said on Wednesday that they had been “monitoring” the state of affairs.

“We’ve been carefully monitoring the developments regarding the DRC and Rwanda and proceed to take action,” the spokesperson mentioned.

“We’ve obtained requests from a number of areas all over the world that want to host a future System 1 race.

“We assess any potential request intimately and any future selections could be based mostly on the total data and what’s in one of the best pursuits of our sport and our values.”

Within the letter, Kayikwamba Wagner asks Domenicali: “Does F1 actually need its model smeared by a blood-stained affiliation with Rwanda?

F1 urged by DR Congo to finish talks with ‘blood-stained’ Rwanda over internet hosting race

Rwanda president Paul Kagame (centre) offered Max Verstappen along with his trophy on the FIA end-of-season gala in December (FIA/DPPI by way of Getty Pictures)

“Is that this actually one of the best nation to characterize Africa in world motorsport?”

Rwanda are taking a look at near their new Bugesera airport within the capital metropolis of Kigali. Former F1 driver Alex Wurz has been tasked with designing the circuit.

FIA president Mohammed Ben Sulayem has beforehand said that “Rwanda is one of the best place” for F1 to return to Africa.

But South Africa are additionally eyeing a return, maybe as quickly as 2027, with Kyalami (which hosted the final South African GP in 1993) and Cape City mooted as potential venues.

Kayikwamba Wagner goes on to say that the DRC would “wholeheartedly help” a South African bid to host a race.

She writes: “It could be a becoming (and straightforward) resolution to make; South African troopers, on peacekeeping duties in my nation, have been killed by the very regime you search to do enterprise with.

“For the sake of those that have given their lives within the identify of peace, make the proper selection and at the least make their sacrifice price one thing.”

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