President Putin says Russian GP on track 10 March, 2014 Bernie Ecclestone and Vladimir Putin Preparations for the first ever Grand Prix in Russia are on track, President Vladimir Putin told Formula 1 chief Bernie Ecclestone, this weekend, on the sidelines of the Winter Paralympics. The 10 to 12 October F1 race weekend, the first on Russian soil, will take place at the Sochi Olympic Park in the Black Sea resort, where athletes this week began competing in the Paralympic Games. Putin, under international pressure over the situation in neighbouring Ukraine, where thousands of pro-Russia troops have fanned out across the Crimean peninsula, told Ecclestone the race would be a good use of the...
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