{"id":18200,"date":"2013-05-02T07:07:32","date_gmt":"2013-05-02T11:07:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/?p=18200"},"modified":"2013-05-02T07:07:32","modified_gmt":"2013-05-02T11:07:32","slug":"laffite-doubts-f1-return-for-magny-cours","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/formula-1\/laffite-doubts-f1-return-for-magny-cours\/","title":{"rendered":"Laffite doubts F1 return for Magny Cours"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Former F1 driver Jacques Laffite has played down reports Magny Cours is still in the running for a return to the F1 calendar.<\/p>\n<p>Recently, Alain Prost &#8211; who was involved in the efforts to revive the French grand prix for 2013 &#8211; said he thinks there could now be &#8220;possible openings&#8221; on the 2014 calendar.<\/p>\n<p>But also involved in those efforts was Laffite, another former F1 winner from France.<\/p>\n<p>He told Le Journal du Centre newspaper: &#8220;I doubt formula one will return to Magny Cours.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;If the regional authorities have no such desire, it is not possible to organise the grand prix.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Laffite said the decision to abandon efforts to return the grand prix to France is wrong.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It can be compared to Canada; when the race was not held for a year, Montreal lost 92 million dollars,&#8221; he claimed.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Formula one is a very profitable sporting event.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #888888;\"><em>\u00a9 RIF | GMM<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former F1 driver Jacques Laffite has played down reports Magny Cours is still in the running for a return to the F1 calendar. Recently, Alain Prost &#8211; who was involved in the efforts to revive the French grand prix for 2013 &#8211; said he thinks there could now be &#8220;possible openings&#8221; on the 2014 calendar. &#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":[5262,5340,1882,673],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18200"}],"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=18200"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18200\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18201,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18200\/revisions\/18201"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18200"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18200"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18200"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}