Behind that pitch sits a footprint already eight countries deep: Botswana, Rwanda, Zambia, Angola, South Africa, Kenya, Ghana and Mozambique. No other team, federation or development programme is currently building a grassroots-to-elite motorsport pathway like this anywhere else on the continent. Tumisang Kagiso Modibedi, President of Botswana Motorsport, put it in local terms: “This launch marks a defining moment for motorsport in Botswana. “Karting Africa has gone beyond the FIA’s own borders,” said Rodrigo Rocha, FIA Vice President for Sport (Africa), who chaired the Africa Panel in Macau. The FIA just backed Africa’s first continent-wide motorsport development plan