France solution better than nothing’ - Prost

Alain Prost has backed France’s touted return in 2013 to the formula one calendar.

Recently, the four time world champion was involved in a project to bring the sport to Paris.

"That’s a closed chapter," he rued, according to the Russian website F1News.

"I really regret that, because - believe me - it was the best project I had seen in a long time."

The latest proposal is for France’s Paul Ricard to share an annually alternating grand prix date with Spa-Francorchamps, Belgium’s fabled and much loved circuit.

Prost said: "Obviously the best thing would be for France and Belgium to have their own grands prix each year.

"It’s better than nothing," he said.