Circuit of the past · Sochi

Sochi

Grand Prix years
2014–2021
Grands Prix held
8
Lap length
5.848 km
Corners
18
Type
Road circuit
Elevation change
7 m

About the circuit

A track in the Olympic Park

The Sochi Autodrom was laid out around the venues of the 2014 Winter Olympics in the Imereti Lowland, and in October of that same year it hosted the first Russian Grand Prix in World Championship history. All eight races at the track were won by Mercedes drivers: Lewis Hamilton five times, Valtteri Bottas twice and Nico Rosberg once.

Hamilton’s hundredth win

In 2021 Lando Norris started from pole and was leading when rain began to fall a few laps from the end; Norris stayed out on slicks and dropped back, and Lewis Hamilton took the hundredth win of his career. It turned out to be the last race: in 2022 Formula 1 terminated its contract for the Russian Grand Prix.

Championship races
8 — from 2014 to 2021, all of them the Russian Grand Prix
First race
12 October 2014 — Lewis Hamilton
Wins
all eight — Mercedes
Last race
26 September 2021 — Lewis Hamilton, the hundredth win of his career

Layouts by year

2014–20218 races · 5.848 km · 18 turns

Winners

2021Lewis HamiltonMercedesfrom P4
2020Valtteri BottasMercedesfrom P3
2019Lewis HamiltonMercedesfrom P2
2018Lewis HamiltonMercedesfrom P2
2017Valtteri BottasMercedesfrom P3
2016Nico RosbergMercedesfrom P1
2015Lewis HamiltonMercedesfrom P2
2014Lewis HamiltonMercedesfrom P1

Records

Lap record1:35.761Lewis Hamilton · 2019
Most wins5Lewis Hamilton
First Grand Prix2014Lewis Hamilton
Races held8in the World Championship since 2014

The lap record is per circuit layout. Calculated by Gridlap from f1db history and the season’s results