Magny-cours To Lose F1 Grand Prix
F1 supremo Bernie Ecclestone has announced that this year’s French Grand Prix will be the last held at Magny-Cours.
Ecclestone has long argued that the Circuit de Nevers, 155 miles south of Paris, is inaccessible and not up to modern F1 standards.
He said in a media interview this week: ‘The concern is the location – 2008 will be the last time we continue like this. I would really love a French Grand Prix in the streets of Paris.
‘Prime Minister Francois Fillon told me we would see if we could have a Grand Prix in Paris or just outside but that would not necessarily be for 2009, rather for 2010.’
After the pair met last year, Fillon’s office said three locations – the towns of Versailles and Evry and a site near Disneyland Paris east of the capital – were being considered as replacement venues.
Any delay in finding a new site could see the race dropped from the Formula One calendar.
Magny-Cours has been the permanent home of the French Grand Prix since 1991 with this year’s race taking place on Sunday, 22nd June.
