The authorities are considering using a portion of the Tourism Ministry’s infrastructure budget to develop facilities that would be needed to support the event, De Lille said.
“Such a project would have to get cabinet approval,” she said.
South Africa last hosted a Formula 1 race at the Kyalami race track north of Johannesburg in 1993 — the year before the country’s first multiracial elections ended decades of White-minority rule.
Formula 1’s current 24-race calendar excludes Africa — the last race it held on the continent was in South Africa.
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