La premi\u00e8re \u00e9dition de cette course au Rwanda d\u00e9pendra notamment de la construction d\u2019un circuit sp\u00e9cialement con\u00e7u pour accueillir les comp\u00e9titions de Formula 1 dans le district de Bugesera, \u00e0 environ 40 kilom\u00e8tres au sud de Kigali, \u00e0 proximit\u00e9 du futur a\u00e9roport international de Kigali.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Selon les premi\u00e8res informations communiqu\u00e9es par Formula 1, le circuit envisag\u00e9 s\u2019\u00e9tendra sur environ six kilom\u00e8tres et comprendra 17 virages. Sa conception doit tenir compte du relief de la r\u00e9gion, avec des d\u00e9nivel\u00e9s importants destin\u00e9s \u00e0 offrir un trac\u00e9 exigeant aux pilotes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
L\u2019infrastructure devra r\u00e9pondre aux normes de cat\u00e9gorie 1 de la FIA, condition indispensable pour accueillir une course du championnat du monde de Formula 1. Le projet est pilot\u00e9 par le Rwanda Development Board (RDB), dans le cadre d\u2019une strat\u00e9gie plus large visant \u00e0 d\u00e9velopper le tourisme, les infrastructures et les activit\u00e9s \u00e9conomiques li\u00e9es au sport.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Plus de 30 ans d\u2019absence<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Le retour de Formula 1 en Afrique mettra fin \u00e0 une absence de plus de 30 ans. La derni\u00e8re course du championnat du monde organis\u00e9e sur le continent remonte \u00e0 1993, sur le circuit de Kyalami, en Afrique du Sud.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Avant cette derni\u00e8re \u00e9dition sud-africaine, le Maroc avait \u00e9galement accueilli une manche du championnat du monde en 1958. Le projet rwandais marquera donc une nouvelle \u00e9tape dans l\u2019histoire de la discipline sur le continent.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Pour le Rwanda, cet accord repr\u00e9sente une nouvelle initiative visant \u00e0 renforcer sa visibilit\u00e9 internationale \u00e0 travers l\u2019organisation de grands \u00e9v\u00e9nements sportifs. Les autorit\u00e9s esp\u00e8rent notamment attirer davantage de visiteurs, stimuler les investissements, cr\u00e9er des emplois et favoriser le d\u00e9veloppement de comp\u00e9tences locales dans les m\u00e9tiers du sport et de l\u2019ing\u00e9nierie.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Lors d’un entretien avec le magazine am\u00e9ricain TIME, le PDG de Formula 1, Stefano Domenicali, a affirm\u00e9 que le Rwanda \u00e9tait le seul pays africain \u00e0 avoir pr\u00e9sent\u00e9 un projet suffisamment concret pour accueillir un Grand Prix au d\u00e9but des ann\u00e9es 2030.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":452,"featured_media":4000088768,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"archived_slugs":[],"footnotes":"","igh_game_id":0},"categories":[7536],"tags":[9962,7601],"byline":[7717],"hashtag":[],"class_list":["post-4000088765","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports","tag-editors-choice","tag-main-highlight-home","byline-igihe"],"bylines":[{"id":7717,"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":393,"twitter_handle":""}],"contributors":[{"id":7717,"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":393,"twitter_handle":""}],"featured_image":{"id":4000088768,"url":"https:\/\/cdn.igihe.com\/fr\/2026\/10\/F1KGD-CP-2.jpg","alt":"","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","width":800,"height":484,"sizes":{"thumbnail":{"url":"https:\/\/cdn.igihe.com\/fr\/2026\/10\/F1KGD-CP-2.jpg","width":800,"height":484},"medium":{"url":"https:\/\/cdn.igihe.com\/fr\/2026\/10\/F1KGD-CP-2.jpg","width":800,"height":484},"medium_large":{"url":"https:\/\/cdn.igihe.com\/fr\/2026\/10\/F1KGD-CP-2.jpg","width":800,"height":484},"large":{"url":"https:\/\/cdn.igihe.com\/fr\/2026\/10\/F1KGD-CP-2.jpg","width":800,"height":484},"full":{"url":"https:\/\/cdn.igihe.com\/fr\/2026\/10\/F1KGD-CP-2.jpg","width":800,"height":484}}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/french\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4000088765","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/french\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/french\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/french\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/452"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/french\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4000088765"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/french\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4000088765\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4000088770,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/french\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4000088765\/revisions\/4000088770"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/french\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4000088768"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/french\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4000088765"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/french\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4000088765"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/french\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4000088765"},{"taxonomy":"byline","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/french\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/byline?post=4000088765"},{"taxonomy":"hashtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/french\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtag?post=4000088765"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"\"](\"https:\/\/cdn.igihe.com\/fr\/2026\/10\/F1KGD.jpg\")