F1将重返非洲，将在卢旺达举办新赛事
一级方程式赛车将在2030年代重返非洲，在卢旺达举办新赛事。该10年协议将在下一个十年初期开始，但F1和国际汽联尚未具体说明时间。将在卢旺达首都基加利以南约40公里的布古塞拉建设一个新的专用赛道，首场比赛日期和开发里程碑将在适当的时候公布。
一级方程式赛车将在2030年代重返非洲，在卢旺达举办一场新的赛事。
这份为期10年的协议将在下一个十年“早期”开始，但F1和国际汽联尚未指定具体时间。
将在卢旺达首都基加利以南大约40公里的布古塞拉建设一个全新的赛道，首场比赛日期和开发里程碑将在“适当的时候”公布。
这将是一级方程式赛车自1993年以来首次在非洲举办赛事，当时在基兰米的最后一场南非大奖赛举行。
F1已经尝试了好几年重返大陆，基亚拉米一直被认为是回归的热门候选地。
但一个可行的交易从未达成，尽管有时看起来很接近，甚至在去年初，基亚拉米还希望继续进行赛道改造，以实现所需的FIA一级赛事资格，前提是成功回归F1赛历。
与此同时，与卢旺达官员的谈判进展得更顺利，F1将其描述为获得了“正确的基石，与最佳合作伙伴”以举办可持续的大奖赛。
七次世界冠军刘易斯·汉密尔顿一直是增加非洲赛事到赛程的倡导者，甚至建议他可能会推迟退休以参加这样的大奖赛。
然而，由于卢旺达的参赛入口点在2030年代初尚不明确，现在41岁的汉密尔顿仍然参加比赛的可能性似乎非常低，而卡亚马事件可能可以在更短的时间内增加。
近年来，卢旺达通过举办各种比赛和通过赞助提升其国际赛事和体育项目组合，例如与顶级足球队合作，扩大了其国际赛事和体育项目组合。
大赦国际将“访问卢旺达”活动称为“体育洗白”努力，旨在“转移对其糟糕的人权记录的注意力”，但一级方程式表示，新的大奖赛旨在通过支持旅游业、吸引投资、培养当地人才和为社区和企业创造新的机会来建立一项遗产。
卢旺达共和国总统保罗·卡加梅在宣布中表示，“今天属于非洲”。
“三十多年来，世界顶级赛车运动锦标赛一直未在这个大陆上比赛，而这份协议改变了这一切，”他说。
国际汽联主席穆罕默德·本·苏莱姆，他在2024年将组织年度颁奖典礼首次带到非洲，在基加利举办时，称之为一级方程式赛车在全球持续增长中的“一个重要步骤”，而一级方程式赛车首席执行官斯蒂法诺·多梅尼卡利表示这是一个“里程碑时刻”。
多梅尼卡利说：“非洲一直是一级方程式赛车未来的组成部分，从一开始我们就决心以正确的方式、与正确的合作伙伴、长期承诺以及明确的愿景回归，以产生有意义的影響。”
英文原文
Formula 1 will return to Africa in the 2030s with a new race in Rwanda.
The 10-year agreement will begin “early” in the next decade but F1 and the FIA have not specified when.
A new purpose-built circuit will be built in Bugusera, around 40 kilometres south of the Rwandan capital Kigali, with details such as the first race date and development milestones to be announced “in due course”.
It will be F1’s first race in Africa since 1993, when the last South African GP at Kyalami was held.
F1 has been trying to pull off a return to the continent for several years with Kyalami repeatedly in the frame for a return.
But a viable deal was never concluded, even though it seemed to be close at times and as recently as early last year Kyalami hoped to push on with circuit modifications to achieve the required FIA Grade 1 status pending successfully returning to the F1 calendar.
At the same time, negotiations with Rwanda officials progressed more successfully and F1 has described it as achieving “the right foundations, with the best partner” for a sustainable grand prix.
Seven-time world champion Lewis Hamilton has long been an advocate for an African race being added to the schedule and even suggested he would delay his retirement to be able to take part in such a grand prix.
However, with Rwanda having an unknown entry point vaguely in the early 2030s, it seems highly unlikely that Hamilton - now 41 - will still be racing, whereas a Kyalami event could have been added in a shorter timeframe.
Rwanda has expanded its international events and sports portfolio in recent years by hosting various competitions and building its profile with sponsorship, for example with top-level football teams.
The Visit Rwanda campaign has been called a sportswashing effort “to deflect attention from its terrible human rights record” by Amnesty International, but F1 says the new grand prix aims to establish “a legacy by supporting tourism, attracting investment, developing local talent and creating new opportunities for communities and businesses".
Paul Kagame, president of the Republic of Rwanda, said as part of the announcement that “today belongs to Africa”.
“For more than three decades, the world's premier motorsport championship has raced without this continent, and that changes with this agreement,” he said.
FIA president Mohammed Ben Sulayem, who took his organisation’s annual awards ceremony to Africa for the first time when it was hosted in Kigali in 2024, called it a “an important step in the continued global growth of motorsport” for F1 while F1 CEO Stefano Domenicali said it was a “landmark moment”.
“Africa has always been part of Formula 1's future, and from the beginning we were determined to return in the right way, with the right partner, a long-term commitment and a clear vision for creating meaningful impact,” Domenicali said.
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