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By Roy Barford, Tash Reddy and Fiona Gouden

The sound and the fury of the A1GP burst on to the streets of Durban on Friday, just three months after preparations began for this showpiece of world motorsport.

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quite something

put together originally by Sheik Mohammed Al-Maktoum od Dubai , after he got shunned by Bernie Ecclestone , in 2003 Emirates' bid for a F1 GP of the Middle East ...
( Bahrain offerred more bribes to FIA , we chuckle )
so , now the interesting , exotic places ( like Mumbai , Durban , Abu Dhabi ...) can also have the motor-racing circus-show and all the palaver that goes with it , not least : a lot of TV- and media- awareness , that should promote tourism , and business , generally.
Here , we see it on EuroSport , both on cable and satelite...