New Magny-Cours boss hopeful over French GP 06/07/2010 |
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The new boss of the Magny-Cours racing circuit has revealed he is taking “discreet” steps to get the French Grand Prix back on the Formula 1 calendar – but insists any financial negotiations must be at a “reasonable level”.
F1 has been absent from France since 2008 and Bernie Ecclestone has been in talks with various groups about holding a race in or around Paris.
Magny-Cours staged an F1 grand prix every year from 1991 until 2008 but its remote location was not always popular with everyone.
However, new chairman Serge Saulnier said race-goers will soon be “able to come from Paris without interruption to the door of the circuit”.
“If France is re-instated on the calendar in the near future, it could only be at Magny Cours,” the ex-Peugeot Sport chief told French magazine Auto Hebdo. “The key to F1's return to France is the promotion – it is necessary to re-negotiate the price to a reasonable level.
“We know that the state or the local authorities are not going to put in 5 or 6 million Euros for the loss. If there is a chance of having the grand prix back, the negotiation – as it was for the Canadian Grand Prix – must be done on a reasonable basis. We are going to work on it discreetly, and without haste.”
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