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Daniil Kvyat backs plan to relocate Russian GP to St Petersburg

Daniil Kvyat says he would back a plan to relocate Russia's Grand Prix to the country's second-largest city in the near future. There are plans to drop Sochi, which with a population of just 400,000 ranks as Russia's 47th largest city and sits more than 840 miles away from the capital of Moscow, and instead move the race to St Petersburg, which has a population of over five million and is just 388 miles south-east of the capital. Kvyat reckons this will boost the spectator numbers and attract fans from Moscow and other surrounding cities. 'I think as long as there is a racing in Russia I am up for it,' he said. 'Maybe it’s not a bad idea to have it closer to that...
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