“If no one had talked about canceling the race, I’m sure the FIA wouldn’t have done anything.” Bernie Ecclestone, former F1 boss, recently told the PA agency about a cancellation so far reversible from the Russian GP which was planned to celebrate this 2022. But he was wrong. The world Cup deleted the appointment from your calendar if the current war conditions were maintained, something that the British did not consider necessary, but now they have gone a step further without popular demand in between, with a definitive situation that affects the participation of the Russian country in this course and in the immediate future the Great Circus.
Russia has no place in Formula 1. The conflict with Ukraine leaves the country out of the World Cup permanently, as confirmed in a statement reporting a decision that will not allow the Saint Petersburg circuit to debut as the new venue for the Russian GP: “F1 can confirm that has terminated its contract with the promoter of the Russian GP, which means that Russia will not have a race in the future”.
The speculations are over and for the moment, there is no going back in a long-term decision that affects the change that the Russian GP was going to undergo from 2023. Sochi was the venue that hosted this appointment since it joined the calendar world cup in 2014, and from the next course he would give up his position to the Igora Drive Autodrome, located 54 km from St. Petersburg. But now, the Russian investment of approximately 200 million dollars will have to try to pay for itself without what was going to be its main attraction.
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