{"id":22067,"date":"2014-05-26T06:53:57","date_gmt":"2014-05-26T10:53:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/?p=22067"},"modified":"2014-05-26T06:53:57","modified_gmt":"2014-05-26T10:53:57","slug":"ecclestone-says-no-to-magny-cours-return","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/formula-1\/ecclestone-says-no-to-magny-cours-return\/","title":{"rendered":"Ecclestone says no to Magny Cours return"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Bernie Ecclestone gave a clear &#8220;no&#8221; when asked if France is on the brink of returning to F1.<\/p>\n<p>A week ago, former grand prix venue Magny Cours&#8217; boss Serge Saulnier told Infosport: &#8220;If the will of a number of people is confirmed in the coming weeks, we are very close (to returning).&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>He said Magny Cours, located a remote 250 kilometres from Paris and absent from the calendar since 2008, is heading for a comeback race next year.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We are still in negotiations with FOM,&#8221; said Saulnier, referring to F1&#8217;s commercial rights company that is run by chief executive Bernie Ecclestone.<\/p>\n<p>But in Monaco, when Ecclestone was asked about those French reports, the Briton told Reuters: &#8220;No.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;They&#8217;ll knock at the door but I don&#8217;t think we can do anything,&#8221; he added.<\/p>\n<p><em>\u00a9 RIF | GMM<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bernie Ecclestone gave a clear &#8220;no&#8221; when asked if France is on the brink of returning to F1. A week ago, former grand prix venue Magny Cours&#8217; boss Serge Saulnier told Infosport: &#8220;If the will of a number of people is confirmed in the coming weeks, we are very close (to returning).&#8221; He said Magny &#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":[59,5262,317,5340,673,4927],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22067"}],"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=22067"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22067\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22068,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22067\/revisions\/22068"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22067"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22067"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22067"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}