{"id":14866,"date":"2012-01-10T06:57:57","date_gmt":"2012-01-10T11:57:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/?p=14866"},"modified":"2012-01-10T06:57:57","modified_gmt":"2012-01-10T11:57:57","slug":"paul-ricard-could-host-70000-spectators-for-french-gp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/formula-1\/paul-ricard-could-host-70000-spectators-for-french-gp\/","title":{"rendered":"Paul Ricard could host 70,000 spectators for French GP"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If Paul Ricard gets the green light to host France&#8217;s F1 return in 2013, the circuit in Le Castellet could bring in more than 70,000 spectators.<\/p>\n<p>That is the claim of the track&#8217;s director Stephane Clair, amid reports French prime minister Francois Fillon is poised to approve a deal to see the country alternate an annual spot on the F1 calendar with Belgium&#8217;s Spa-Francorchamps.<\/p>\n<p>Previously, a drawback of installing France&#8217;s race at Paul Ricard &#8211; officially called the High Tech Test Track &#8211; was the fact its current layout is not designed to host more than a few thousand VIPs.<\/p>\n<p>But Clair insisted in a French-language AFP report: &#8220;It would be a great event to unify people with attractive prices thanks to funding provided by public and private partners.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>He said the project would include the addition of 50,000 temporary seats at Paul Ricard, with another 20-30,000 spectators able to watch from the hills &#8220;as in the past&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>He said Paul Ricard now needs the official go-ahead &#8220;before the end of the first 2012 quarter&#8221;, in order to comply with the requirements for planning, permits and environmental compliance.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #888888;\"><em>\u00a9 RIF | GMM<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If Paul Ricard gets the green light to host France&#8217;s F1 return in 2013, the circuit in Le Castellet could bring in more than 70,000 spectators. That is the claim of the track&#8217;s director Stephane Clair, amid reports French prime minister Francois Fillon is poised to approve a deal to see the country alternate an &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0},"categories":[3],"tags":[5262,5340,1882,419,3527],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14866"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14866"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14866\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14867,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14866\/revisions\/14867"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14866"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14866"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14866"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}