{"id":3006,"date":"2010-03-10T06:59:29","date_gmt":"2010-03-10T11:59:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/?p=3006"},"modified":"2010-03-10T06:56:08","modified_gmt":"2010-03-10T11:56:08","slug":"french-gp-return-unlikely-in-2011","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/formula-1\/french-gp-return-unlikely-in-2011\/","title":{"rendered":"French GP return unlikely in 2011"},"content":{"rendered":"<h5><span style=\"color: #000080;\">France is not on this year&#8217;s F1 calendar and the situation is unlikely to change in 2011.<\/span><\/h5>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>That is the admission of Nicolas Deschaux, president of the country&#8217;s motor racing sanctioning body FFSA (Federation Francaise du Sport Automobile).<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Following the demise of the Magny Cours event and then proposed alternative hosts, he blames French politics.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;There is a time for sponsorships of the government,&#8221; he is quoted as saying by the L&#8217;Equipe sports daily.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;When I see (Russian prime minister Vladimir) Putin announcing the support of (Vitaly) Petrov with Lada, I see the gap is huge compared to what happens in France.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The (French) government has a view on this subject that is distorted by electoral considerations under the heading of the environment,&#8221; Deschaux added.<\/p>\n<p>He said Magny Cours, Paul Ricard, and the Sarcelles project are the three possible venues for a reinstated French grand prix.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I am awaiting clarification of the financial feasibility of Sarcelles,&#8221; said Deschaux, who also said he is in &#8220;very regular contact&#8221; with FIA president Jean Todt.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;But I cannot predict the year of the next grand prix of France.\u00a0 It would be unrealistic to think it will be 2011,&#8221; he added.<\/p>\n<p><em><span style=\"color: #999999;\">\u00a9 RIF|GMM<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>France is not on this year&#8217;s F1 calendar and the situation is unlikely to change in 2011. \u00a0 That is the admission of Nicolas Deschaux, president of the country&#8217;s motor racing sanctioning body FFSA (Federation Francaise du Sport Automobile).<\/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":[5262,872],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3006"}],"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=3006"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3006\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3007,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3006\/revisions\/3007"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3006"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3006"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3006"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}