Formula One supremo Bernie Ecclestone said yesterday he is pushing hard to take Formula One to Russia's Sochi as contracts with some European cities that soon run out will not be renewed.

Ecclestone has reportedly said he was also bidding to take the motor sport back to the United States, hopefully to New York for 2012.

"We've got two or three places in Russia which we're dealing with at the moment," Ecclestone told reporters before touring a circuit being built in South Korea for its first race in October. "There is a big push for us to do something with Sochi."

South Korea is working on the circuit on a massive plot of reclaimed land in the South Jeolla province about 370 km from Seoul.

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