A few days after the start of the 2022 World Cup, he continues to hold the ground at home Haasthe question inherent in the removal of Nikita Mazepin from the role of official driver of the US team. The 23-year-old Russian, excluded from the team due to the outbreak of the war in Ukraine, has been officially replaced by the Danish Kevin Magnussen, announced on Wednesday evening on the eve of the tests in Bahrain. On the contrary, more precisely on March 5, the team of Gene Haas had instead communicated the interruption of the relationship with Mazepin and with the now former sponsor Uralkali, the latter owned by Nikita’s father.
Shortly after the official communication from Haas, the pilot explained how he learned of the dismissal, that is, through the same news reports. In partial confirmation of this version there are also the recent statements of the team principal Günther Steinerwho specified how he warned the Russian of his departure: “I only did it in writing, I haven’t talked to him – admitted the South Tyrolean manager in an interview with RTL – conclusions had to be drawn. The last two or three weeks have been quite exhausting and boring, but the worst should be over. It was a complex issue, even for the legal aspects. It was difficult to communicate such a decision to him by word of mouth – he added – external circumstances, which neither he nor I can change, are as they are. We have to live with it and move on ”.
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