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Originally Posted by wolfhound
However a lot of the motorhomes will not have been used since the Italian GP so there will have been plenty of time to get them there. Also the motorhomes will not be need until May 2015. It would be different if there was only a short gap between the other European GP's and Sochi.
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it's a nice idea, but the team buildings were complete at sochi a while ago. for races in russia teams have to completely itemise everything in each truck (down to tools and random items) and bring everything back with them. only exceptions are obvious consumables. you do, of course, have to do the itemising with air and sea shipments anyway but i can only imagine the world of pain doing it for a truck full of random bits of metal and hostility kitchen equipment would cause.
bear in mind that when the wsr teams go to russia they travel in a 50-odd truck convoy with an armed guard with a selection of small firearms on the passenger seat and a sub-machine gun in the boot. it's not the threat from the bandits (criminals?) that worry the guys, they're more concerned about what happens if the armed guard goes rogue. but then going it alone with £1million worth of truck and kit wouldn't be a great idea either.
that all sounds very overstated and unrealistic and most of the time it's perfectly safe. the only thing that gives away much of the hospitality unit traffic is the uk registered truck units. but the "threat" is different to western europe, and has to be accounted for accordingly. on that basis it'd be a whole load of wasted money taking your own units out there.
/cool story bro