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Sochi scrapped as season start with Russian race moved to Moscow

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The FIA World Touring Car Championship season start which was planned to be held at Sochi on March 20th has now been dropped, and is set to change back to Moscow Raceway later in the year, reports motorsport.com.

“We did not receive the guarantees of a commercially acceptable deal, so there will be no WTCC in Sochi this year,” said Sergey Vorobyov, the Russian GP promoter, to motorsport.com. “We remain open to negotiations with all organisers, but we are not flexible in terms of financial conditions.”

This means that Paul Ricard will instead host the 2016 season opener on April 1st-3rd.

The WTCC will make an announcement about the rearranged plans shortly.

“The provisional calendar presented to the FIA World Motor Sport Council in December allowed for a ‘TBD’ event,” said a statement from the WTCC promoter.

“The intention has always been to run 12 events. As soon as all arrangements are in place an announcement will be made.”