Paris, Paris, Paris!

[pchall]

Formula 1 » Sarcelles unveils French GP bid.
Wednesday, 17th September 2008

The team behind taking the French Grand Prix to a run-down suburb of Paris have revealed their ideas.

Disneyland Europe has a rival to be the next home of the French Grand Prix, despite the apparent wishes of Bernie Ecclestone, amongst others, to take the race to the House of Mouse.

Although four alternate bids are expected to materialise in the near future, the first rival to Disney has come from a suburb of France previously best-known for civil unrest nearly three years ago, Sarcelles.

Attracting the grand prix from 2010, when it will no longer be staged at the purpose-built and challenging Magny-Cours circuit in Nevers, will help to re-establish Sarcelles and nearby areas of the capital, Paris, and bring it out of the run-down state it currently finds itself in, according to those behind the bid, mayor Francois Pupponi and former F1 racer Jean-Pierre Beltoise.



EuroDisney or the sewers of Paris... tough choice, eh?

Parisian F1 Bid (http://www.crash.net/motorsport/f1/news/169157-0/sarcelles_unveils_french_gp_bid.html)

[Methanolandbrats]

F'n street races, Bernie is a bigger whore than Max. Run it through the tunnel and call it the Dodi and Diana bend.

[Michaelhatesfans]

I'd vote for a night race down the Champs-Elysee...

http://i.pbase.com/u6/raylander/upload/37521318.ChampsElyseeNuit.jpg

[Cam]

I'd vote for a night race down the Champs-Elysee...

http://i.pbase.com/u6/raylander/upload/37521318.ChampsElyseeNuit.jpg

w00t! Rendezvous redux. :)

[cameraman]

I suddenly find myself in love with Magny-Cours:eek:

:shakehead:saywhat::flame:

[dirtyboy]

I’ve been living in Paris for the last month. Bourdais did a run through the streets a couple weeks ago.

Disney is a way out of town. Kinda like saying Long Beach is in LA. It’ll probably suck and I’ll skip it anyway as tickets would probably be starting at $500.

[chop456]

^ Will you still be there in June 2010? :D

[Insomniac]

w00t! Rendezvous redux. :)

That was my first thought too.

[pchall]

Bernie's gonna get effed on this. Tony George has his sights on a roval race from L'Arc de Triomphe to Place de la Concorde, and since the IRL is now bigger than NASCAR and F1 (just like he said it would be back in 2002) there is no way Bernie can touch this.