MOSCOW, (RIA Novosti sports commentator...

This season"s leader MILD SEVEN RENAULT and its drivers Fernando Alonso and Giancarlo Fisichella are to do a demonstration drive along the road running beside the Moscow River, just a stone"s throw away from the Kremlin.

In recent years, Russia has been getting used to F1 stars dropping in on the capital. For example, in 2003, Alonso visited Moscow with his then co-driver Jarni Trulli. David Coulthard and Ralf Schumacher have also visited the city. Their trips have always been as team representatives, generally to promote the goods or services of the team"s sponsors. Alonso and Fisichella"s visit is also a promotional one. It is tied in to the launch of new packaging for Mild Seven cigarettes.

Each visit by the F1 stars is accompanied by promises and assurances from officials that the issue of constructing a race track for this most prestigious series will soon be resolved. Yet nothing has ever changed. Below is a brief chronology of Russia"s attempts to bring a Grand

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