Robert Newman examines the history and scandals that defined Africa’s first Grand Prix. The Italians are nuts about motor racing and have been for 100 years. So in 1925 it came as no surprise that, as they were going to be in the desert for another 25 years occupying Libya, they started up their very own race through the sand dunes and palm trees. But nobody expected such an obscure, friendly little race to grow quite as much or as…
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