Steiner: Mazepin needs to grow up
8 January, 2021
Russian rookie Nikita Mazepin needs to grow up and has not been let off the hook for causing offence with a video on social media last month, his Haas Formula 1 team boss Guenther Steiner said on Friday.
The 21-year-old driver, whose father is a fertiliser billionaire, angered the team when images of a female passenger being groped in the back of a car appeared on his Instagram feed.
The footage was swiftly deleted and Mazepin apologised, with Haas addressing the situation internally, but Steiner said in a column for The Race that the matter was “not done and dusted.”