Formula 1 - Haas: Nikita maepine shares against his ex

Nikita Mazepin has no understanding of being in formula 1. Disappointed is the Russian of Haas team boss Günther Steiner - and Mick Schumacher.

A side shoe against Mick Schumacher, no clear statement on the Putin near his father and an idiosyncratic view of the war in Ukraine: The Russian Nikita Mazepin has moved to his outward throw at the Haas Rennstall position and sees himself as a victim of a great injustice. "I lost my dream for whom I fought for 18 years of my life," Maepin said on Wednesday, "I do not think that's fair."

One day before the beginning of the final test rides in Bahrain, the 23-year-old sat in Moscow and put his view of things in a one-hour video meeting. "Do we want the sport to be another stage for protests and political debates?", asked maepin at the beginning and ventured the comparison with the Olympic Boykotten of the 80s: "Or is the sport a chance to connect people in the most difficult times?"

With the interaction it was fast. It followed a roofing against his ex-companions. It also met his former teammate Schumacher. Some drivers like George Russell, Valtteri Bottas or Charles Leclec had sent him encouraging news. He did not hear anything about Schumacher. "In situations like this, your true I show," said Maepin, who had cultivated a split ratio for German in the 1921 together season.

Even bigger is the trouble about Günther Steiner. The team boss threw maepin insincerity. On Steiner's word you have always "left to 110 percent," said maepin. From his termination, he then experienced without warning with publication of the decision last Saturday. Contact to Steiner has not passed since.

Maepin does not exclude legal action against dismissal

A basis for its dismissal maepin does not look at maepin - and did not take legal action: "We have all the options open." Repeatedly, the final light of the preseason referred to a decision of the World Association of Fia, which allows Russian and Belarussian drivers to start a start under neutral FIA flag. "Is not there for neutrality in sports?" He asked.

At this, there is a doubt about maepin. His billion-dental father Dmitry is a majority shareholder at Uralkali - the Russian mining company was mainly sponsor at Haas - and owns the best connections to the Kremlin. For the US Rennstall, the proximity to President Vladimir Putin was no longer justifiable after Russian invasion in Ukraine.

Mazepin ignored questions about the Kremlin Connection of his father. He only briefly commented on the war - and spoke to the West of the insulation. "Those who did not live or born in this part of the world," would only see part of the conflict. People from Russia and Ukraine would understand him at much more levels.

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He has clear ideas about his future. "The chapter Formula 1 is not over for me yet," said Maepin, who excluded just a return to Haas. He also announced the founding of a foundation. This should support athletes who have lost "for political reasons and without their control the chance of contesting on the highest level competitions."