{"id":17244,"date":"2012-11-29T07:01:02","date_gmt":"2012-11-29T12:01:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/?p=17244"},"modified":"2012-11-29T07:01:02","modified_gmt":"2012-11-29T12:01:02","slug":"2013-french-gp-return-impossible-prost","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/formula-1\/2013-french-gp-return-impossible-prost\/","title":{"rendered":"2013 French GP return &#8216;impossible&#8217; &#8211; Prost"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Alain Prost has confirmed reports France will definitely not feature on F1&#8217;s 2013 calendar.<\/p>\n<p>The reports had said Paul Ricard and Magny Cours both missed the deadline to apply to France&#8217;s sanctioning body, the FFSA, for a request to the FIA for a 2013 calendar change.<\/p>\n<p>Asked about France&#8217;s chances of organising a 2013 race now, Prost &#8211; who has recently been working as an advisor to the Paul Ricard project &#8211; answered: &#8220;For 2013 it is impossible.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The time is over.\u00a0 We will see what we can do for 2014.\u00a0 Now, it is technically impossible for 2013.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Asked why the French revival efforts had failed for now, Prost told RMC Sport: &#8220;Two things.\u00a0 First, the real lack of desire of Bernie Ecclestone to have another grand prix in Europe.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;And then, of course, financially.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>However, Paul Ricard boss Stephane Clair quickly contradicted Prost&#8217;s comments, telling RMC that he will meet with the quadruple world champion to discuss them on Friday.<\/p>\n<p>Clair insisted there is &#8220;no obligation&#8221; for a French GP project to have confirmation before December, and &#8220;no deadline&#8221; in place by Bernie Ecclestone.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #888888;\"><em>\u00a9 RIF | GMM<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Alain Prost has confirmed reports France will definitely not feature on F1&#8217;s 2013 calendar. The reports had said Paul Ricard and Magny Cours both missed the deadline to apply to France&#8217;s sanctioning body, the FFSA, for a request to the FIA for a 2013 calendar change. Asked about France&#8217;s chances of organising a 2013 race &#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":[375,59,5262,5300,5340,1882,673,419],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17244"}],"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=17244"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17244\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17245,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17244\/revisions\/17245"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17244"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17244"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17244"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}