Formula 1 terminates contract with Russian Grand Prix over Ukraine invasion

Formula One will now not race in Russia after the game terminated its contract with the promoter of the Russian Grand Prix, it mentioned in a press release on Thursday.

Formula 1 terminates contract with Russian Grand Prix (Reuters Photo)

HIGHLIGHTSFormula One has terminated its contract with the Russian Grand PrixThe race scheduled for this 12 months has already been canceledThis means F1 is not going to race in Russia within the close to future

Formula One has terminated its contract with the Russian Grand Prix and can now not race in Russia, it mentioned in a press release on Thursday. The 2022 operating of the occasion, set for September on the Olympic Park in Sochi, had already been canceled final week after Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.

“Formula 1 can confirm it has terminated its contract with the Russian Grand Prix promoter, meaning Russia will not have a race in the future,” it mentioned in a press release.

F1 has mentioned what motion to take subsequent over the times because it determined to cancel this 12 months’s race final week, a day after the invasion. It was concluded that holding a race in Russia was not tenable after what had occurred.

This means F1 is not going to race in Russia for the close to future – successfully, at the very least for so long as Putin stays in energy.

Nikita Mazepin is the one Russian on the Formula One grid. The 22-year-old already faces an unsure future after his U.S.-owned Haas crew eliminated all branding associated to Russian potash producer and title sponsor Uralkali from its automobile on the ultimate day of final week’s Barcelona take a look at.

Uralkali is owned by Mazepin’s father, oligarch Dmitry Mazepin, and the destiny of the partnership and the Russian’s continued presence on the crew is ready to be determined this week.

The Russian Grand Prix joined the calendar in 2014. It has been attended by President Vladimir Putin previously, with the Russian chief even handing out trophies on the rostrum.

Russia launched an all-out invasion of Ukraine final week, with Belarus used as a key staging space.

The nation calls its actions in Ukraine a “special operation.”