{"id":55702,"date":"2025-09-21T17:30:48","date_gmt":"2025-09-21T17:30:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/president-kagame-tours-azerbaijan-formula-1-circuit\/"},"modified":"2025-09-23T14:49:41","modified_gmt":"2025-09-23T14:49:41","slug":"president-kagame-tours-azerbaijan-formula-1-circuit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/president-kagame-tours-azerbaijan-formula-1-circuit\/","title":{"rendered":"President Kagame tours Azerbaijan Formula 1 circuit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Accompanied by Azerbaijan\u2019s Minister of Youth and Sports, Farid Gaibov, Kagame toured the eight-year-old track, which has hosted F1 races for nearly a decade and is one of 24 circuits on this year\u2019s championship calendar.<\/p>\n<p>The visit coincided with Max Verstappen of Red Bull Racing claiming victory in the Azerbaijan Grand Prix, a win that brought him closer to reclaiming the season&#8217;s top spot from Oscar Piastri of McLaren.<\/p>\n<p>Last year, President Kagame confirmed Rwanda\u2019s bid to host a Formula 1 race, which would make the East African nation the first African host in three decades. Since then, discussions and preparations have been underway, with Minister of Sports Nelly Mukazayire confirming that the project is progressing steadily.<\/p>\n<p>President Kagame\u2019s tour of Baku follows visits to other notable circuits, including the Marina Bay Street Circuit in Singapore and the Lusail International Circuit in Qatar, highlighting Rwanda\u2019s growing engagement with global motorsport.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-94862 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/webp\/rcn9peeeatsiw3aa8gu89plklf1gdcf9ukl7ap8r_825.jpg.webp\" alt=\"Accompanied by Azerbaijan\u2019s Minister of Youth and Sports, Farid Gaibov, Kagame toured the eight-year-old track, which has hosted F1 races for nearly a decade and is one of 24 circuits on this year\u2019s championship calendar.\" \/><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-94863 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/webp\/h0fhfuznwe1ojhjrrf3v7xy3honclshqnoqem4pa_850.jpg.webp\" alt=\"\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Paul Kagame on Sunday, September 21, visited the Baku City Circuit, the venue for the Formula 1 Azerbaijan Grand Prix, as part of his three-day official trip to Azerbaijan.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":131,"featured_media":2000094864,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[75],"byline":[170],"hashtag":[],"class_list":["post-55702","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-homenews","byline-igihe"],"bylines":[{"id":170,"name":"IGIHE","slug":"igihe","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":8}],"contributors":[{"id":170,"name":"IGIHE","slug":"igihe","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":8}],"featured_image":{"id":2000094864,"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/rcn9peeeatsiw3aa8gu89plklf1gdcf9ukl7ap8r_825logo.jpg","alt":"","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","width":0,"height":0,"sizes":{"thumbnail":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/rcn9peeeatsiw3aa8gu89plklf1gdcf9ukl7ap8r_825logo.jpg","width":1,"height":1},"medium":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/rcn9peeeatsiw3aa8gu89plklf1gdcf9ukl7ap8r_825logo.jpg","width":1,"height":1},"medium_large":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/rcn9peeeatsiw3aa8gu89plklf1gdcf9ukl7ap8r_825logo.jpg","width":1,"height":1},"large":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/rcn9peeeatsiw3aa8gu89plklf1gdcf9ukl7ap8r_825logo.jpg","width":1,"height":1},"full":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/rcn9peeeatsiw3aa8gu89plklf1gdcf9ukl7ap8r_825logo.jpg","width":0,"height":0}}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55702","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/131"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=55702"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55702\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2000094864"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=55702"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=55702"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=55702"},{"taxonomy":"byline","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/byline?post=55702"},{"taxonomy":"hashtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtag?post=55702"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}