{"id":890761,"date":"2026-02-07T03:23:17","date_gmt":"2026-02-07T09:23:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/07\/sa-shifts-f1-bid-focus-to-2028-29\/"},"modified":"2026-02-07T03:23:17","modified_gmt":"2026-02-07T09:23:17","slug":"sa-shifts-f1-bid-focus-to-2028-29","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/07\/sa-shifts-f1-bid-focus-to-2028-29\/","title":{"rendered":"SA shifts F1 bid focus to 2028\/29"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>JOHANNESBURG &#8211; <span>South Africa won\u2019t be hosting Formula One in the near future.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Sports Minister Gayton McKenzie admits the country underestimated the requirements needed to stage the event.<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><strong>READ | <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.enca.com\/opinion\/sa-bids-first-african-f1-grand-prix-30-years\"><span><strong>SA bids for first African F1 grand prix in 30 years<\/strong><\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><span>However, they haven&#8217;t given up.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>McKenzie says a team of experts has been appointed to prepare a stronger bid for 2028 or 2029.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Competition to host the high-octane spectacle is between two tracks: a street circuit in Cape Town and the less picturesque but historic Kyalami race track outside of Johannesburg.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><strong>READ | <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.enca.com\/opinion\/sa-bids-first-african-f1-grand-prix-30-years\"><span><strong>SA bids for first African F1 grand prix in 30 years<\/strong><\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The challenging Kyalami circuit once hosted nail-biting races and legendary drivers.<\/p>\n<p>The last grand prix on African soil was held in 1993, the year before South Africa&#8217;s first democratic elections that ended apartheid.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>It was won by Alain Prost in a Williams.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p> eNCA <br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.enca.com\/sport\/sa-shifts-f1-bid-focus-202829\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>JOHANNESBURG &#8211; South Africa won\u2019t be hosting Formula One in the near future. Sports Minister Gayton McKenzie admits the country underestimated the requirements needed to stage the event. READ | SA bids for first African F1 grand prix in 30 years However, they haven&#8217;t given up.\u00a0 McKenzie says a team of experts has been appointed<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":890762,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22846,26530],"tags":[5096,5072],"class_list":["post-890761","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-focus","category-shifts","tag-focus","tag-shifts"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/890761","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=890761"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/890761\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/890762"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=890761"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=890761"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=890761"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}