Formula 1: French GP to be chucked from F1 calendar after 2022, Pierre Gasly and Esteban Ocon left heartbroken: The French Grand Prix is expected to disappear from the Formula 1 calendar after the 2022 season, and French drivers Esteban Ocon and Pierre Gasly are justifiably heartbroken at the prospect of this. Follow Formula 1 Live Updates on InsideSport.IN.
Alpine’s Esteban Ocon has stated that he is determined to do all he can to keep his home Grand Prix on the F1 calendar. “I am very happy to discover new circuits. I will do everything I can to try to keep the French GP on the calendar. It’s very special for us to go there every year,” he said.
Formula 1: French GP expected to be CHUCKED from F1 calendar after 2022, prospect leaves French drivers Esteban Ocon and Pierre Gasly HEARTBROKEN
The other French driver in F1, Alpha Tauri’s Pierre Gasly also spoke in the defense of racing at Paul Ricard. “As a Frenchman, I will always support the Grand Prix de France. The motivation, the energy, the atmosphere, it is something that you can only feel in your native country,” said Gasly.
There have been 61 title Grand Prix’s in France, across different venues. The likes of Reims, Rouen, Dijon, Le Mans, Paul Ricard, and Magny Cours.
It has been won seven times by French drivers between Jean-Pierre Jabouille, Alain Prost, and Rene Arnoux. However, it faces annihilation indeed because of Formula 1 CEO Stefano Domenicali’s aggressive arrangement venture into new business sectors.
Domenicali said, “I think there is potential to go to 24 (races per season). I would say there is potential to go to 30. In terms of the interest, we see all around the world. It is up to us to try to find the right balance, considering the venues which would like to be in F1. The historical values we need to see on the calendar.”
F1 boss Stefano Domenicali claims there could be 30 RACES a season in the future despite concerns that the current calendar is too long https://t.co/ZLep50VPCs
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Formula 1: French GP expected to be CHUCKED from F1 calendar after 2022, prospect leaves French drivers Esteban Ocon and Pierre Gasly HEARTBROKEN
Formula 1 will have three races in the United States from next year. The Miami Grand Prix debuts this year with the Las Vegas Grand Prix debuting next year. The third race in the United States will feature the Austin Grand Prix.
There have all the earmarks of being a strong fascination with returning to South Africa and China. Thus, a reestablishment of the French Grand Prix contract which lapses this year shows up impossible.
Other key races likewise seem, to be in danger of tumbling off the schedule in 2023. The contracts to race in Austria, Belgium, Monaco, and Mexico are all set to expire at the end of the current Formula 1 season and their future currently hangs in balance.
Formula 1: French GP expected to be CHUCKED from F1 calendar after 2022, prospect leaves French drivers Esteban Ocon and Pierre Gasly HEARTBROKEN
