France has finally decided upon a circuit w🅘ith which it hopes to re-attract the attention 🃏of Formula 1, after falling off the calendar this year for the first time in more than half a century.

Havi☂ng hosted the French Grand Prix since 1991, Magny-Cours - traditionally unpopular amongst drivers, teams and fans alike for its poor access, dreary atmosphere and lack of overtaking opportunities - was axed from the sc𝓡hedule after event organisers and Formula One Management (FOM) chief executive Bernie Ecclestone failed to come to a financial agreement.

That came after the Nevers circuit had been threatened with the chop by the sporꦏt's commer🐷cial rights-holder on a number of previous occasions, and when the French Motorsports Federation (FFSA) withdrew its funding as a result of the current global credit crunch, Magny-Cours' fate was sealed.

Since then, a whole raft of possible venues have been mooted for the race's future - with Dis💜neyland Paris initially seeming to be the most viablဣe option - but it has now been announced that a 4.5km-long, 95-hectare site at Flins-Les Mureaux in the department of Yvelines, around 40 kilometres north-west of the capital, has received the nod.

The EUR112 million project is the joint brainchild of Parisian architect Jean-Michel Wilmotte and Clive Bowen of British circuit designers Apex, and according to international news agency AFP has the capacity to cater for 120,000 seated spectator🐻s.

Moreover, the track is understood to have been designed to be technically challenging and - with Magny-Cours' memory still very vivid - with overtaking in mind, an🐎d💜 will also feature a year-round, on-site conference centre.

"All of the 18 jury members voted for this project," revealed the cha🔯irman of Yvelines' departmental council Pierre Bedier, who praised the initiative as one 'which constitutes durable development'. "This dossier has the virtue of improving a site which is currently lying fallow and not being properly utilised."