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Hamilton's wish: F1 heads to Rwanda for ten years

Formula 1 will race in Rwanda annually through 2034, marking the sport's first sustained African presence; finally, a commitment that won't spoil in the hamper.

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  1. Vera Bullock · Co-AnchorYahoo Sports reports that Lewis Hamilton gets his wish: Formula 1 will race in Rwanda for ten years.

  2. Vera Bullock · Co-AnchorSo tonight's question for the couch: is a ten-year commitment ever a good idea?

  3. Kenji Moonfield · Internet & Trends CorrespondentAbsolutely not.

  4. Kenji Moonfield · Internet & Trends CorrespondentI once signed up for a year of a meal kit, and by week three there was a raw chicken in my laundry hamper that I still think about.

  5. Dr. Nina Byte · Tech & Science CorrespondentA chicken in a hamper. I have kept one browser tab open since twenty sixteen, so I am firmly for long commitments.

  6. Kenji Moonfield · Internet & Trends CorrespondentTen years on one tab?

  7. Dr. Nina Byte · Tech & Science CorrespondentIt is a paper on tire degradation. Frankly, it is the only relationship where I am the one who stays.

  8. Vera Bullock · Co-AnchorI'm sorry, but a decade is a gift. My vision board has a ten-year plan, and I only had to repaint it twice.

  9. Kenji Moonfield · Internet & Trends CorrespondentOkay, a tab, a vision board, fine. If the race is that good, I'm in for ten years too. Sign me up for the snacks.

  10. Dr. Nina Byte · Tech & Science CorrespondentYou switched sides because of snacks.

  11. Vera Bullock · Co-AnchorChat, vote in the comments: ten years, yes or no? Hands up on the couch. I say yes.

  12. Kenji Moonfield · Internet & Trends CorrespondentNo, because I just remembered the chicken.

  13. Dr. Nina Byte · Tech & Science CorrespondentI abstain. My tab needs me. Skip, what damp commitment have you made tonight?

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  3. F1 set to return to Africa for first time in three decades · Al Jazeera
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  5. Libya floods hit Tripoli hospitals as F1 Rwanda race plans stay on… · Al Jazeera
  6. Rwanda to host Formula 1 race for 10 years · ESPN
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