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Can we dream of a return of the French Grand Prix?
Will the French Grand Prix one day find a place on the calendar? ©Germain Hazard / DPPI
He was believed to be dead, resting in peace for a period close to eternity. The success of the 2022 edition of the French Grand Prix had been its swan song, but at least it had fallen on the field of honor. Forgotten, the 2018 financial year blocked and the 2020 round canceled due to the pandemic, the 2022 edition had been its redemption. The Grand Prix had withdrawn to the bravos. It is this success, this little flame, that we have maintained ever since on the Castellet plateau (Var).
Paul-Ricard is not giving up, and neither are the local authorities. Let's be clear, as long as the GIP, promoter of the last four editions which should have been five, has not been dissolved and the 27 million euros deficit has not been cleared, nothing can be done. Afterwards, on the other hand…
Meeting in Monaco for the future of the French Grand Prix
According to our sources, on the occasion of the next Monaco Grand Prix (May 26-28), a meeting should be held with representatives of the circuit and local authorities with the FOM. Objective: to define what the specifications would be for a possible return to the calendar. The price to pay obviously, but also the involvement of the French state. Without it, there is no salvation.
This is the sine qua non condition, the one imposed by the cost and the magnitude of the event, and the one demanded by Stefano Domenicali to relaunch the talks. The boss of the F1 has also clearly expressed it in the columns of the daily newspaper L'Équipe. He is open to anything, but first to meet President Emmanuel Macron. From the meeting which will be held in the Principality, nothing concrete will emerge apart from the certainty that the bridges are not burned and that the French Grand Prix is not conjugated to the past, nor even to the (re)composed past, but to the future . This will be the whole point of this meeting.
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YVES CHAMPOD
10/05/2023 at 02:54 a.m.
Dreaming does not eat bread, but from there to moving on to Reality, it is not tomorrow the day before, especially in . . . France ! ! !
08/05/2023 at 07:42 a.m.
The French state clearly has other priorities than sponsoring polluting single-seaters while it is pushing for the energy transition without really succeeding (only 100.000 terminals including 10% fast charging at the end of April 2023 instead of the end of 2021 initially planned !)! Even Formula E is no longer successful in Paris while AH still reigns there and had pushed for the route around Les Invalides...