Hate to be that guy, but Antonov factory was founded in Novosibirsk, Russia and the whole line-up was designed by Russian engineers.
The Curious Case of Nelson Piquet Jr. He is going to take part in karting championship next time.
BR Engineering has the same owners as SMP Racing.
SMP won GT Am WEC title in 2015 and built their own chassis for LMP2 in 2016, not mentioning huge involvement in racing infrastructure development in Russia. Marussia F1 was a toy for a few businessmen.
Sauber is about to going on sale, there is a good chance to jump in F1 with (kind of) low investments. I like SMP strategy, it’s already a serious racing community with a program to promote young drivers from karting and Formula 4, also no need to mention Kvyat here, he is Red Bull program driver and still has a…
Editing comments after they has been answered is a bad thing. Anyway, say hello to the new Kvyat Toro Rosso sponsor - Parallels board director and Acronis company founder - Sergey Belousov.
Um, no.
Oil and retail companies has enough money to support sport in Russia, I know many examples.
...all funded by wealthy individuals and families.
Russian motorsport rise started just from 2000s, now there are few high-level racetracks with DTM, WTCC, GP2 and other series in calendar. Check the latest Grozny Autodrom. Young project SMP Racing support motorsport massively, from karting to GT and LMP, has their own F4 series, you could spot it’s name as new…
You forget Brazil and what about Finland, it’s Russia’s neighbor. Also what’s wrong with Polish Kubica, though?
Who is Kvyat’s oligarch fund? Dietrich Mateschitz? It’s a weird statement.
Maybe ‘job’ means that team work with Lewis engine, just saying...
It’s the first time Kvyat hit someone, though.
Do you hope that Gutierrez has to miss next GP, or you didn’t spotted that little bowling on T1?