{"id":21984,"date":"2014-05-20T06:52:27","date_gmt":"2014-05-20T10:52:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/?p=21984"},"modified":"2014-05-20T06:52:27","modified_gmt":"2014-05-20T10:52:27","slug":"magny-cours-on-pole-for-2015-f1-return","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/formula-1\/magny-cours-on-pole-for-2015-f1-return\/","title":{"rendered":"Magny Cours on pole for 2015 F1 return"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Magny Cours is on pole position to return to the F1 calendar next year, the boss of the former French grand prix venue has said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;If the will of a number of people is confirmed in the coming weeks, we are very close,&#8221; Magny Cours chief Serge Saulnier told France&#8217;s Infosport on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>France has been absent from the F1 calendar since Magny Cours, located in the centre of the country some 250 kilometres from Paris, lost the race after 2008.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We are still in negotiations with FOM,&#8221; Saulnier added, referring to F1&#8217;s commercial rights company that is run by F1 chief executive Bernie Ecclestone.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We are a candidate for a date in 2015, but for now nothing is signed,&#8221; he said, revealing that representatives of local regions have been asked to contribute towards the race fee.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I am hoping,&#8221; Saulnier continued.\u00a0 &#8220;We have been working on it for more than three years, it has built slowly but surely, and I feel that the time has arrived to sign this agreement.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I hope and I would like it to be done before the summer,&#8221; he added.<\/p>\n<p><em>\u00a9 RIF | GMM<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Magny Cours is on pole position to return to the F1 calendar next year, the boss of the former French grand prix venue has said. &#8220;If the will of a number of people is confirmed in the coming weeks, we are very close,&#8221; Magny Cours chief Serge Saulnier told France&#8217;s Infosport on Monday. France has &#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":[59,5262,5340,1882,673,4927],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21984"}],"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=21984"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21984\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21985,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21984\/revisions\/21985"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21984"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21984"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21984"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}