October 10 started free practice on the track in Sochi. “Times” recalls the circuit in Sochi got the right to host the championship stage, “Formula 1″.
October 14, 2010 took the fateful signing contract for the phase of the “Formula 1″ in the Russian city of Sochi. Exactly 100 years to revive the tradition of the Grand Prix of Russia – in 1914, the German pilot of the “Benz” in St. Petersburg was the last holder of the honorary trophy.
By the way, the year before that, again in the northern capital, first held the Grand Prix of Russia, and it won a victory in the Russian racer with a talking winning name – George Suvorin and piloted as a pioneer car “Benz”.
Of course, it was not the “Formula 1″, but most do not push off from that, although attempts to organize a Grand Prix in Russia were made over the past few decades.
Another Leonid Brezhnev planned to hold the race in the USSR, and even commissioned to develop the project route in the Lenin Hills. In the 1983 season, “Formula 1″ was to be held in Moscow, but the year before Brezhnev died, and because the idea of the race belonged to him, “Formula” was quickly removed from the plans of the new nomenclature machine.
In 1987 he had to build a race track in Tushino, but due to the constant lack of money the project folded. But in 2002, the head of the “Formula” Bernie Ecclestone (also in 1981 agreed with Brezhnev) found a common language with Yuri Luzhkov. Except that the former mayor of Moscow, did not realize that too much to make money on the race did not turn out quite the contrary: we’ll have to build the track, and all profits will go to the organizers. As a result, and in 2003 did not grow together.
The next project – a race in Tula. City Mayor Sergei Kazakhs planned construction of a highway “Russian Ring”, and not only conceived, but seriously the idea worked, that is attracted to the design of foreign investors and consultants. The Russian government has favored the idea of racing in Tula, but with funding at a critical time did not help, and Tula fireballs “Formula 1″ and have not seen.
rip and plans of the Grand Prix at Pulkovo. $ 100 million the organizers planned to spend on highway construction in St. Petersburg, but to collect that amount have failed, and before signing a contract with Bernie Ecclestone did not come again.
system and other plans, but all the projects came to an end at the level of conversations. In 1993, deliberated on the construction of road in Kaliningrad, a year later, actively wanted to get the right to host the Grand Prix of Yaroslavl, “LogoVAZ” twice tried to organize a race – first in Chekhov, and then in Krylatskom.
But in 2010, everything was solid and quiet. Vladimir Putin personally signed an agreement with Ecclestone, and in July of 2011, construction began on “Sochi-racing tracks.” Track finished in time, normal spending for sports facilities Sochi 5.8 billion rubles. from federal sources.
The first races were held in September 2013 year: Russian pilots tested the track circuit racing series, well, a year later on the unique Sochi turns (which are said to be perhaps the most complex in the world), the first arrivals already fulfilled riders “Formula 1».
Conducting Grand Prix in Sochi tried to disrupt, teams of “Formula 1″ recommended to boycott the race, but Bernie Ecclestone and representatives of all the stables stopped talk of a possible boycott.
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