French F1 Grand Prix – The tricard role

Last year, in an emergency, the French Grand Prix was forced to bring forward its running by a week to the great contempt of spectators to make room for a second “Grand Prix Red Bull » even though the Var promoter had offered to host a second event. This year, because Silverstone wanted an earlier date to avoid finding itself in competition with the final of the Wimbledon tennis tournament, the FOM allocated it the date (July 3) normally allocated to Paul-Ricard without worrying that a delay to July 24, in the middle of the summer season, would further increase mobility problems and transform hotel reservations into a headache. Better: while she had suggested to the Public Interest Group (GIP) that it would be granted the date of the Chinese GP in the event of its Asian counterpart withdrawing (this will indeed be the case for the third year in a row ), vs