An investigation spearheaded by ITN's News at Ten in the UK recently revealed that in recent years the FIA has given motorsport grants to a number of countries where, to most, outwardly the concept of motorsport would be the last thing on anyone's mind. Zimbabwe, which even as you read this appears to be undergoing a military coup, was given a grant in order to train officials and fire fighters, while Burundi and Rwanda used their FIA grants for grass-roots karting programmes. Among various other instances of the sport's governing body granting money to dubious regimes, perhaps the most controversial is the money handed over to the Syrian Automobile Club (SAC) where events are sponsored by...
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