10 Kyalami (1967-1985)

Formula 1’s purported World championship schedule hasn’t had African presence on it for nearly three decades. Yet the South African Grand

Prix was once a fixture, and from 1967 it was held at Kyalami near Johannesburg.

The track, though short, was rapid and undulating. Its trademark was a spectacular downhill pitstraight plunge into the testing Crowthorne turn, followed by the fearsome Jukskei Sweep. The short lap times ensured competitive fare and the usually good local weather made it a popular test venue.

Yet there was always an elephant in the room, that apartheid South Africa was an increasing international pariah, and F1 eventually upped sticks after 1985. Then half of the original track was lost to development, and a poorer relation was back on the calendar in 1992 and ’93.