Rhodesian Grand Prix
The Grand Prix of Rhodesia was a motorsport event, which was held from 1960 to 1976 almost every year in Rhodesia. Most races were advertised by the regulations of Formula 1, but had no world championship status. Record winner is the Rhodesian racer John Love, who won by 16 runs six.
History
Organizers of the Grand Prix of Rhodesia was the Rhodesian Automobile Racing Club. The first race was held in 1960. This year he was tendered after the Formule Libre, then the rules corresponded to the Formula 1 race until 1965 the individual events that were not incorporated into larger racing series were. From 1966 to 1974, the Grand Prix of Rhodesia runs the South African Formula 1 Championship were; In 1976, the race was part of the South African Formula Atlantic Championship.
Three runs of the series found in the capital Salisbury (now Harare ) instead: the first was held on the airfield circuit Belvedere Airport Circuit, the last two on the Donnybrook Raceway. From 1961 to 1973, the race in the province capital Bulawayo was discharged, which is less far away from South Africa than Harare; In this way, the attractiveness of the race for South African pilots should be increased. Until 1970, the James McNeillie Circuit in Kumalo, a suburb of Bulawayo, the venue, after the event moved to the newly constructed Breedon Everard Raceway.