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The track, "Formula 1" for Sochi
Deputy Minister of Regional Development Yuri Reylyan said that under the transformation of Sochi the capital of the 2014 Olympic Games in the city may appear track "Formula 1". Preliminary draft agreed with the German Tilke GmbH, which builds racing for F1, but the final decision for the owner of the races Bernie Ecclestone. If all goes well, then in the autumn of 2014 in Sochi can pass the stage of "royal races." The course should appear in the Imereti Valley. Most of it will be written into the roads that are being built for the Olympics. In April, Bernie Ecclestone said that the holding of races in Sochi is possible. Management "Formula 1" is interested in expanding the geography competition. Plans for construction of road in Russia discussed the first year, but no real results of the negotiations have not yet been given. In 2000 he was a project to build an airport in Moscow Nagatinsky floodplain, but the city authorities did not want to leave Ecclestone advertising rights, TV broadcasting and tickets. There were also plans to open a racetrack near the capital's airport "Sheremetyevo", St. Petersburg and Volokolamsk.