This is how Sochi Autodrom looks like these days, a hardly surprising landscape when you remember that the Black Sea’s resort hosted the Winter Olympic Games less than two years ago. The third edition of the Russian Grand Prix has been brought forward from its usual October slot to the April 29 - May 1 weekend. Hopefully the snow will have melted by the time the Formula One circus comes back to town.

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