Bojan Vrbnjak
By conviction Mazepina, the act was unfair. That he will not be a racer this year Formula 1 and member Haas, he had to find out through the team press releases. Now he decided to calculation with the team and a former teammate Mick Schumacher.
Na self-organized press conferences, the former Haas racer answered journalists' questions about the termination of his contract for the first time. I avoided it but he also addressed many issues, including that of father’s ties to the Kremlin. Mazepin declined to say whether he believes he still has a chance to win a Formula One seat.
Following the announcement of the termination of the contract by Haas, Mazepin received many support messages. Among other things, they responded Sergio Perez, George Russell, Valtteri Bottas in Charles Leclerc. After all, as he himself says mazepin, is about realizing a boy’s dream for a 23-year-old racer. From his former teammate Mick Schumacher but he heard nothing. “In difficult times, you get to know the real faces of the people around you,”Says the Russian, who is a German team racer Haas in the 2021 season repeatedly threatened dangerously on the track.
It will be this year mazepin continued training in Moscow, as it intends to return in the coming years. This will require ending the war between Russia and Ukraine. The war caused by the invasion of his homeland by a neighboring country is mazepin repeatedly described at the press conference as "conflict"By Western countries"they cannot fully control."
Did Mazepin even read the terms of the FIA?
Although it is mazepin for his departure from the team Haas and Formula 1 curves American team, p Chris Medland, a Formula 1 journalist thinks things are somewhat different. It's on twitter Medland talked about this Mazepins press conference. “As far as I understand, he himself did not contact Haas about the situation. Neither his father nor the Uralkali. There was no attempt at clarity."It simply came to our notice then Haasthat they hadn't heard anything from Barcelona since Mazepina.
young Rus he made it known at the press conference that he was ready accept the terms of the FIA, but Mazepin in words Medland he didn't even look at the small print and conditionsto which he should agree. These conditions include that it should not be no political statements, none references to Russia. This condition alone would make matters more difficult Uralkali, because of them it is Haas race car looked like Russian flag. The terms and conditions also state that it supports FIA in her solidarity with residents Ukraine. Because it is mazepin apparently avoided at the press conference themes of war and connect your father with the Kremlin, opportunities to be young Rus agreed to these conditions were not great. It's just about rhetoric, with which he wants everything to blame to the American team.
Father and son Mazepin on EU sanctions list of influential Russians
After the team Haas broke up with Nikito Mazepin and named sponsors uralkali, is a young Russian and his father Dimtria now punished as well European Union (EU). Their names have been added to the list sanctions of influential Russians because of their ties to the president Vladimir Putin. EU sanctions are being implemented because of the war in Ukraine.
Dimitrij Mazepin, father Nikita, participated in a meeting with Putin February 24th, which is cited as evidence that "supports or implements measures or policies“Threatening Ukraine, he wrote on twitter Andrew Benson from the BBC. In mazepin older than the leader Uralkali it also financially supports the Russian government in the Kremlin.
Establishment of the WeCompeteAsOne Foundation
A Russian racer says he set up a foundation with money that would otherwise have gone to Haas WeCompeteAsOne, which will be intended to support athletes who are not allowed to compete in world-class competitions for political reasons.
“The Foundation will help such athletes with money as well as other forms of assistance, such as job search and legal assistance. I would like to emphasize that this is not just about athletes from Russia, as the doors of the foundation are open to all those who are in one way or another in conflict with sports federations or other bodies, ” he concluded Nikita mazepin.
