created and for years russian engineers tried to come up with cars that would be as fast as muscle roddy's or through ariz but all the attempts failed by the end of the sixties the cars made in the used to start with too far behind their western counterparts the soviet formula one never managed to travel beyond the country and in one nine hundred seventy six it seized to exist what followed were numerous attempts to stage formula one grand prix in russia the first was right after the nine hundred eighty summer olympics in moscow and the brash never. said to have been enthusiastic at first thank you was the sun never hosted the race after the collapse of the soviet union from time to time there have been plans to build formula one tracks in russia but none of them has yet been fulfilled to us dennys have seen several russian researchers trying to get to one the main problem they've faced is the inability to find sponsors when vitaly petrov finally made it into the world's premier racing competition its popularity in russia soared and while there's still no f one tracking russia there's a ch