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  1.   RaceFanX posted:
  01.04.2014 - 10:36 pm
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Sochi, a resort city on the Black Sea, is hosting the 2014 Winter
Olympics. After the games the city's Olympic area will be revamped to
build this street circuit. The course will run near the Olympic Park and
Olympic Village. The track will pass Sochi's train station and venues
used during the Olympics for skating and curling.

This track will host the first Formula 1 Russian Grand Prix and the
first Russian Grand Prix overall since 1914. The plan is for the first
race to be held in October 2014 but it could be pushed back to 2015 if
there are delays related to the Olympics.


  2.   Mike posted:
  01.09.2014 - 4:08 pm
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Information about Sochi Circuit:
http://www.f1mix.com/circuits/sochi-olympic-park-circuit.asp


  3.   Unser1 posted:
  01.09.2014 - 10:59 pm
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First Russian track on Racing-Reference


  4.   Anonymous posted:
  05.18.2014 - 11:10 pm
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I wonder what the whole Ukraine invasion and international freezing of
Russian assets will do to this race?


  5.   Biscuits In A Red Bull posted:
  09.16.2014 - 5:12 pm
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Russia has enough money to lure the cash-happy Bernie Ecclestone, so the
race will go on. Russian life is still fairly ordinary unless you're
near the Ukrainian border, so Sochi should be unaffected.

The circuit held it's first race weekend last weekend and overall it was
described as a power circuit, so expect to see Merc clean the field.


  6.   23andJoe posted:
  10.12.2014 - 6:38 pm
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The correct name of the circuit is "Sochi Autodrome".


  7.   RaceFanX posted:
  03.10.2020 - 9:16 am
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There were several rumors of an F1 Russian Grand Prix for decades before
Sochi finally came together. In the early to mid 1980s there was a push
to do a Grand Prix of the Soviet Union on a street circuit in Moscow but
it failed amid bureaucratic issues. In 1989 there was also rumors they
could stage a F1 race on a street course in Leningrad (now again called
St. Petersburg) but that too went nowhere.


  8.   Canadianfan posted:
  06.12.2020 - 4:50 pm
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In addition to Imola and Mugello I did see a tweet or two about having a
doubleheader here.


  9.   Onion posted:
  06.12.2020 - 6:18 pm
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Two races in Sochi... *painful screeching noises*

They could go to Moscow Raceway for one of them, it has the right
grading and would give a bit better racing.


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