It's race day! Can Massa make it 2 in a row? Image Unavailable, Please Login Last time Merc raced @ French GP. Image Unavailable, Please Login 60% chance of rain during the race. Forza Ferrari + Ricci
Saudi Arabian woman driver Aseel Alhamad will drive a 2012 F1 car ahead of today's French GP, on the day that women in Saudi are allowed to drive. The car is the E20 that won in Abu Dhabi with Kimi Raikkonen
One thing to bear in mind re traffic jams at Ricard. The race fee is €30m, it is said, with half funded by ticket sales and partnerships and half regional bodies. In other words, if embouteillages turn spectators away, it threatens the viability of the race. I believe 65,000 people were stuck in traffic still for Fridays FP sessions.
Conjointly with funding part of the GP, the local authority should have improved the infrastructures. Access to the Paul Ricard circuit has always been problematic, and has hardly improved in the last 40 years+. This is France's problem: its circuits are in the middle of nowhere.
These people ditched their cars and are hiking to the track!! Image Unavailable, Please Login Image Unavailable, Please Login