stephen, i m saying that i secured my formula i contract based on the contract that i ve had, and the title sponsorship of the uralkali is a separate entity. and, you know, even more to that, at that point, there were no sanctions. it was 4th of may, and the sanctions, you know, surprisingly arrived on the 9th to myself. without wishing to be brutal, nikita, i mean, sport is a very brutal business, and it s a results and performance based business, and maybe haas saw an opportunity. after the invasion of ukraine by putin and the idea that sportspeople from russia were going to be excluded from international competition, they saw an early opportunity to get you out of the team because you simply hadn t performed for them last year. in fact, your results were pretty appalling. well, you can perhaps say so,
with vladimir putin was very relevant. that is not totally correct because, going by the documents, i have had a separate contract with a separate amount of backing that i was bringing in for securing my drive. now, the team has ended up in a very difficult situation, and that has perhaps enabled my dad to see it as an opportunity to invest in a team that is not very fast and perhaps help it grow and grow together because it also helps the image of the company. so the fact that my contract was terminated based on termination of the other contract is not factually correct. are you telling me that you believe you would have been a driverfor haas had your dad not put in these tens of millions of dollars?
and it was just put in a legal way. beforehand, my manager was speaking to the team boss, who said that as long as the fia, which is the body that governs, you know, formula i as a federation, said that i can compete as long as i m being neutral. that s what i thought. but then obviously saturday morning, 11.1i5am russian time, that s all changed. right, but this is a bit more thanjust about you and agreeing to drive under a neutral banner. this is also about your dad, inevitably, because your dad pumped tens of millions of dollars a year into the haas team. and for those who don t know, your dad dmitry is the boss of a massive fertiliser operation and is worth billions of dollars. so, his decision to back haas was obviously directly linked to haas taking you on as a team driver, and therefore your dad s close relationship
driver for said, stay at my house, he sent a driverfor me and said, he said, stay at my house, he sent a driver for me and said, he will be at your disposal is what as long as you want and i stayed at his house in connecticut for a whole we had to get away from the noise in new york, he was a very generous man, but you did not want to be rented when he had a temper, but he was fantastic. tell rented when he had a temper, but he was fantastic was fantastic. tell us more about his character. was fantastic. tell us more about his character. he was fantastic. tell us more about his character. he was his character. he was larger-than-life, - his character. he was larger-than-life, if. his character. he was i larger-than-life, if you his character. he was - larger-than-life, if you saw his character. he was larger-than-life, if you saw him on larger than life, if you saw him on the apprentice anger, he gets angry, he projects out through a bit at the keyboard player one day, he w
learning poor is transparent and we are learning from what has happened in the past learning from what has happened in the past and will make improvements moving the past and will make improvements moving forward. we re expecting this to be quite an open season among the drivers. very much so. we have got this unique moment at the start of every season when there is a lot of talking, a lot of weighing up and looking at the card and try to work out who has done what and we have had to write his sessions to date with rebel and ferrari pretty much on top as we all expected. mercedes are still struggling. george russell, the new driverfor are still struggling. george russell, the new driver for it mercedes annuity may of lewis hamilton was fourth in the second practice today and hamilton at night and they are experiencing this strange phenomenon, this bouncy phenomenon and none is progressing and mercedes is struggling with it more than most. sweeping changes that have been brought i