The French Grand P☂rix will be held at Magny-Cours for the final time this year - and likely not at all in 2009 - Bernie Ecclestone has confirmed, with a push for the race to be moved to Paris for 2010.

The grand prix has been held at the Nev▨ers Circuit in the heart of rural France every year since 1991, despite repeated doubts over its spot on the Formula 1 calendar in recent seasons. The track has often been described as featurele🍃ss, and has never proven to be a particular hit with drivers, teams or fans, with poor access and insufficient accommodation keeping crowd numbers down of late.

This year's even💝t is set to be held over the wꦑeekend of 20-22 June, but it will, this time, definitively be the last, Ecclestone insisted.

"We agreed that there would be a French Grand Prix at Magny-Cours in 2008 but not in 2009," the sport's supremo told French sports daily newspaper L'Equipe.

"Prime Minister Fran𝓡?ois Fillon told me we would then see if we could have a grand prix in Paris or just outside, b🍒ut that would not necessarily be for 2009, rather for 2010.

"I would really love a French Grand Prix in the streets of Paris, [but] in any case, 2008 will be the last time we con🐭tinue like this.𓃲"