Boullier's Back

This guy perspires more than Richard Nixon:
https://www.planetf1.com/news/boullier-back-involved-with-formula-1/

 

Expect a very slow and disappointing French GP

 

Not that cockroach again!!!

 

Getting there is an ordeal.

 

Yep, Boullier always looks like he is in the middle of a polygraph test.

 

And failing it. Nixon didn't do so well either.

 

And getting OUT of there after the race is a nightmare, especially when the parkings lots are drowned by buckets of rain...
I wrote on this very forum, when the return of the french G.P was announced, that access there has always been bad, and that, if nothing has been done to remedy it, then the Grand Prix would be a failure. Guess what...

Rgds

 

Yes, I remember your posts.

The local authorities, the department or the region have apparently done very little to improve trafic to the circuit.

 

It's actually physically difficult to make accesses better considering the location of the track and its environment, etc...plus the millions of people vacationing here and crowding the roads chock-a-block. I vacationed there as a child in the sixties, but, as much as I love the place, during the seventies, terrified by the traffic growing so much, I woved that I would never, ever come here again during July and August.
When the return of the Grand Prix was announced, I was skeptical because even trying as hard as I could, I couldn't figure out how the accesses could be bettered. "They" said that "they "would take the matter in hand and that it would not be the same than in the old days...and it was exactly the same, perhaps even worse.

Rgds

 

This choice for the french GP did not make sense at all - there is no way you could make an easy access to this location.
The track is OK for testings or races with limited attendence, but to accommodate large crowds it's hopeless.
The decision was political and not driven by common sense (that's typical in France )

 

One of the men behind the return of a French GP at Paul Ricard is probably Christian Estrosi the president of the PACA region (Provence- Cote d'Azur).
He was a motorcycle racer (4 times French champion) who did GP too, before turning to politics.
There is no doubt that bringing back a FIA GP in his region could boost his popularity.