Nikita Mazepin may lose his drive at Haas as the team revealed it will make a decision on the future of its Uralkali sponsorship next week.
Haas removed Uralkali’s logos and the Russian flag colour scheme from its cars overnight following Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.
Team principal Guenther Steiner said the team moved swiftly when news of the invasion broke yesterday. He described how he immediately raised the matter with team owner Gene Haas.
“Obviously in the morning when I got up and looked at the news there were a few words there which I better not say here,” Steiner said in response to a question from RaceFans. “Then I went straight to talk to Gene about it and then we got in contact with our other partners and made a decision.
“As you saw we reacted very quick to it so you can imagine it was very straight talks. Obviously you need to keep the people involved, the headquarters of Haas Automation is in California, they are nine hours behind so I had to wait until I…