IRL F1 World Championship
Round 7
Russian Grand Prix
The Sochi Autodrom, previously known as the Sochi International Street Circuit and the Sochi Olympic Park Circuit, is a 5.848 km Formula One racing street circuit in the Black Sea resort town of Sochi in Krasnodar Krai, Russia. The circuit is the fourth-longest circuit on the Formula One calendar, behind Spa-Francorchamps in Belgium, Baku City Circuit in Azerbaijan and Silverstone in the UK. The circuit is built around the Sochi Olympic Park, that is the coastal cluster of Olympic venues built for the 2014 Winter Olympics.
The Sochi Autodrom is designed by German architect Hermann Tilke. The start grid is on the northern edge of the Olympic Park and heads southwest towards the Black Sea coast. The track runs along the outer edge of the central Sochi Medals Plaza and then circles the plaza counter-clockwise and makes three turns around the Bolshoy Ice Dome. Then follows a series of tight corners before turning north where the track skirts the edge of the Olympic Park, above the main Olympic Village and the Adler Arena Skating Center. Then it passes the skating and curling centres, before funneling up behind the pit paddock toward the train station, and completing a circuit with two ninety-degree right turns. Some 1.7 kilometres (1.1 mi) of its length the circuit shares with public roads.
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