 At the end of 1998, it was decided that all Formula 3000 races would be organised exclusively as the curtain-raiser of European-based Formula One Grand Prix, and thus the event in Pau could no longer be run as a Formula 3000 race.Following the disappearance of the Formula 3000 race in Pau, the FIA organised the new European Formula Three Cup in 1999.Formula Three, however, had already come to Pau before as part of the French championship and a support race of F3000.