F1i's Justin Hynes and Eric Silbermann look back at a number of lost F1 circuits as Russia tries to cement its place on the calendar ©CahierArchive Whether they’re political playthings, over-reaching vanity projects, failed tourist magnets, collapsed areas of special economic activity or just mysterious and impossible to locate white elephants – F1 is replete with circuits that have (to co-opt the old aphorism about the month of March) arrived on the calendar like a lion and exited it like a particularly shame-faced lamb with its tail lodged firmly between its legs. Russia’s arrival onto the calendar last year was supposed to be conducted with all the pomp and ceremony of the Winter...
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