MOSCOW, (RIA Novosti sports commentator...
Prix race to the country.They started back in 1980 after the Olympics when it was suggested to the Soviet leader Leonid Brezhnev that the Soviet Union host the world"s most prestigious motor races. Although officials were initially keen on the idea, their enthusiasm soon waned and the plan was shelved.
The authorities returned to the idea during the stormy years of Gorbachev"s perestroika. In 1987, a company with connections to F1 owner Bernie Ecclestone said it would construct a $80 million race track at the Tushino airfield. However, in the end the company was put off by the political instability of the Soviet Union in the late 1980s, with good reason, as it turned out.
In the 1990s, a number of "formulaic" proposals were put forward, but the projects never materialized. There were plans to construct a giant autodrome in Kaliningrad that would hold 300,000 spectators, and also a modest track near Yaroslavl. At the same time the authorities could not get
Pages: 1 [2] 3 4 5