As St\u00e9phane Clair, director of the Paul Ricard circuit, mentioned in a November interview, a decision regarding the organization of a French Grand Prix at the Castellet circuit would likely be made by the end of the year.<\/p>\n
For now, nothing official has been announced yet, but several indications suggest that the case will have a favorable outcome.<\/p>\n
The newspaper Var-Matin recently highlighted the fact that the French government was very close to a favorable conclusion on the matter of the Grand Prix de France 2013. Gilles Dufeigneux, the interministerial delegate for major sporting events, believed that things were progressing in a very concrete way.<\/p>\n
Today, the newspaper Le Figaro announces that the French Grand Prix dossier is on Prime Minister Fran\u00e7ois Fillon’s desk: he only has to give the go-ahead to Sports Minister David Douillet and Nicolas Deschaux, president of the French Motorsport Federation (FFSA).<\/p>\n
The newspaper even announces an event date of September 1, 2013, at the Paul Ricard circuit, which would have a capacity to accommodate 50,000 spectators.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
The French Grand Prix dossier of Formula 1 is still relevant. Several French newspapers have recently revealed optimistic information.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":30,"featured_media":41709,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,1749],"tags":[131],"class_list":["post-20356","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-f1","category-news","tag-castellet"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n