On Thursday, Feb. 24, Russian military began an invasion of Ukraine that caused shock and outrage across the world. For Formula One, it cast the relationship of the Haas team with Dimitry Mazepin and title sponsor Uralkali in a different light. As various sports began banning Russian involvement and withdrawing from commercial relationships with Russian companies, Haas were in the paddock at preseason testing for the new F1 season. This is the story of how those intense early days of the season played out for the team, and how they have since put the pieces together to be challenging at the front of the midfield in the campaign’s first two races.
Over 2,500km away from Ukraine, images of the invasion by Russia were being played on all three of the wall-mounted TVs around the Haas team’s motorhome at the Circuit de Catalunya to the north-east of Barcelona. The small building, decked out in the red, blue and white of Uralkali, a major Russian chemical company, was at the end of a…
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