In this episode we delve into a conversation that has recently been a hot talking point, are we going to get an African round in the F1 calendar.Stefano Domenicali, the F1 CEO, flew down to SA mid last year, but we only got a no show for the SA GP. Zanzibar, an archipelago off the coast of East Africa, has placed an audacious bid to host a Formula One event!! We look into the past, the entanglement of F1and Africa and how the future looks like.We'd love to hear your thoughts on it.

Source material for the episode;

https://www.howwemadeitinafrica.com/tanzania-zanzibar-seeks-to-host-formula-1-race/154496/

https://www.bbc.com/sport/africa/64684013

https://books.google.co.ke/books?id=D23EEAAAQBAJ&pg=PA293&lpg=PA293&dq=10.1007/978-3-031-22825-4_13/cover&source=bl&ots=9zypERdRYb&sig=ACfU3U0ILItlZKiwsUSibErHgfJxLznejQ&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwi31ZjD9PeBAxUUQvEDHRSdByEQ6AF6BAgJEAM#v=onepage&q=10.1007%2F978-3-031-22825-4_13%2Fcover&f=false

Welcome to the land of the rising sun, The Red Bull Racing Team have been crowned world champions for 2023 after Max Verstappen taking the win at the Japenese GP. The Bulls had quite the comeback after a dismal weekend at Singapore.

The Mclarens of Lando Norris and the super rookie Oscar Piastri rounded up the podium places; with an impressive outing from the rookie!!

It was the best race of the season!! With fights for positions everywhere!! Brave strategy calls were made; and finally we have the first non-red bull win of the season and the first of the last 15 races!!! Forza Ferrari!! Vamos Carlos!!

The Ferraris put on quite the show at Monza in front of their faithful fans; the Tifosi!! They almost stopped the reggae that is the Red Bull of Max Verstappen!!!

F1 is back!! We had an action packed Dutch Grand Prix with a mixed race condition and quite a good podium including the first podium of Pierre Gasly wit the Alpine team. Alonso in the closing stages of the race almost gave Verstappen, the home favorite, a run for his money.The Dutch man prevailed though equaling Sebastian's and Ascari's record of 9 consecutive wins!! Lewis Hamilton had a quite resilient recovery drive from p13 to P6!!

We are back with an end week episode; a quick run through of what's happening in the F1 world and a run up to Monza!!

It's Friday theeeen...c'mon sing a long...

One last time out before the summer break, F1 was out in Belgium for the last round before the break. It was a mixed conditions sprint shoot out and a rolling start for the sprint race that saw Max's dominance asserted even further, he had a clean swoop of points across Saturday and Sunday, having taken a new gear box, he started P6 and still outdrove his teammate Checo Perez who started on pole on Sunday, extending his lead in the championship and his continuous race wins streak. A superb well put lap by Piastri that saw him miss pole by 0.011s on Saturday.

We head out on the break with red bull firmly on top of both championships!!