The E1 World Championship, an all-electric powerboat racing series, goes to Africa for the first time this weekend with a race in the bustling Nigerian metropolis of Lagos.
The E1 Lagos Grand Prix — the penultimate round of the season after Monaco — will take place on Lagos’s Five Cowrie Creek, featuring nine teams, ahead of the season finale in Miami later this year.
“This marks E1’s first race on the African continent,” organisers E1 said Tuesday. Competitions have been held globally in iconic cities such as Jeddah, Doha, Monaco and Miami.
Organisers and the Lagos state government said Tuesday that Ivory Coast football legend and a UEFA Champions League winner Didier Drogba and his partner Gabrielle Lemaire were instrumental in bringing the race to the continent for the first time
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