"The danger aspect was appalling. It should never have taken place": one damning assessment of the first attempt to run an international race in Israel. Mark Bissett tells the story of what became a disaster in the desert in today's Great Read
Motor racing oddballs can really liven up our sport's history, and the Formula 2 Israel Grand Prix is right up there. Held in November 1970 on the Mediterranean streets of Ashkelon – an ancient seaport city 46 miles west of Jerusalem – it brought its own sort of conflict.
The event came immediately after the 1967-1970 War of Attrition between Egypt, Israel, Jordan and the Palestine Liberation Organisation (PLO) in which the Egyptians attempted to regain the Sinai Peninsula lost to Israel in the 1967 Six Day War. When a ceasefire took place in August 1970, the frontiers hadn't changed...
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