Nikita Mazepin

Nikita Mazepin has apologised to Mick Schumacher following their near-miss at the end of the Azerbaijan Grand Prix, but stressed he only offered the apology because his Haas teammate was upset and not for the incident itself. Schumacher was closing on Mazepin for 13th place on the final lap, but...

There's nothing quite like a heated battle for 13th place to bring out the best, or sometimes the worst, in a Formula 1 driver. The latest chapter in the Nikita Mazepin-Mick Schumacher era of the Haas F1 Team resulted in just that on June 6 in Baku, as Mazpin nearly pinched fellow F1 rookie Schumacher into the wall on the last straight of the F1 Azerbaijan Grand Prix in Baku with all the glory that comes with a 13th-place finish on the line.

Mick Schumacher questioned whether his team-mate Nikita Mazepin was trying to “kill us” in the closing metres of Sunday’s Azerbaijan Grand Prix. Schumacher, the son of seven-time world champion Michael, moved into Mazepin’s slipstream as they approached speeds of 200mph on the start-finish straight in Baku. But in defending 13th...

The classic American sports villain knows many forms. Bill Laimbeer was the Detroit Pistons’ elbow-throwing rabble-rouser. Bill Romanowski was the Denver Broncos’ late-hitting loogie spitter. Mike Tyson bit off a guy’s ear. And now there’s Nikita Mazepin, the Formula One racing driver who’s fast tracking as an all-time foil too.

Nikita Mazepin, who is probably one of the worst Formula 1 drivers of all time, didn’t finish last yesterday in Monaco. He finished second-to-last. Well, maybe fourth-to-last, depending on how you count, as pole-sitter Charles Leclerc didn’t even start the race owing to a bizarre driveshaft issue, while Valtteri Bottas didn’t finish because of a bizarre wheel nut issue. Mick Schumacher, meanwhile, did finish, but, for the first time this season, he finished behind his teammate Mazepin.

Nikita Mazepin is building a reputation he would rather forget after a difficult start to life in Formula One. The Haas driver heads into the 2021 Monaco Grand Prix with a point to prove. Let’s look at how he’ll do. The Russian was picked up by Haas to race alongside...

Haas F1 Team driver Nikita Mazepin is four races into his Formula 1 career and is still trying to get a handle on the VF-21 race car. Mazepin is still seeking his first points in Formula 1 after finishes of 20th, 17th, 19th and 19th. Mazepin says that part of...

F1's latest heel exposes bigger problems in the championship on and off the track. Nikita Mazepin arrived in Formula 1 under a cloud entirely of his own making. And he's not redeemed himself since. The son of a billionaire oligarch, Mazepin signed with Haas for the 2021 season and promptly...

Nikita Mazepin has run dead last among the cars that finished in all but two sessions of the entire 2021 season, including practice sessions, qualifying, and races. And on Friday, during the first practice sessions for this weekend’s Spanish Grand Prix, Mazepin didn’t disappoint once again. Mazepin finished last in...

Norris found himself having to negotiate a sudden traffic jam as he entered the chicane at the end of his first timed lap in Q1, with Mazepin's Haas causing a particular delay. Norris had been on a strong lap but his final sector was compromised as a result and the Englishman had to take another set of tyres to secure his place in Q2.

Nikita Mazepin finished Sunday’s Portugal Grand Prix over a minute behind 18th-placed Nicholas Latifi. Obviously, among the cars that finished, Mazepin was dead last. This is all very funny but also increasingly cringe. Take Mazepin’s radio at the end of the race, for example, in which he and his race engineer try to convince themselves that they had a good day. That was despite Mazepin being shown a number of blue flags throughout the race, or orders to let faster cars behind him pass since he was at least a lap down. On lap 45, he failed to heed one of the blues and held up Sergio Pérez, earning Mazepin a five-second penalty.

Antonio Giovinazzi has criticised Nikita Mazepin for disrespectful driving after having his final qualifying lap ruined by the Haas rookie at Imola. At the end of Q1, the opening qualifying segment, Mazepin followed Giovinazzi down the main straight and used the Alfa Romeo's slipstream to overtake into Turn 1. That immediately compromised Giovinazzi's lap, and Mazepin soon made a mistake that ruined his own effort.

Nikita Mazepin is "trying too hard" at the start of his F1 career, according to his Haas team boss Guenther Steiner. The Russian driver spun once and crashed in first practice at the Emilia Romagna Grand Prix on Friday. That follows four spins at the season-opening Bahrain Grand Prix before...

Russian driver Nikita Mazepin admits he made a "huge mistake" in an incident in which he was filmed inappropriately touching a woman. The 22-year-old Haas driver said he was "not proud" of his behaviour and understood why it was wrong. "We as human beings have to show a certain behaviour...

The Russian driver Nikita Mazepin has said he made a huge mistake in inappropriately touching a woman. Mazepin will make his Formula One debut for Haas this season and has been the subject of widespread criticism since a video of his actions was posted on social media in December. Haas...

Nikita Mazepin says Haas has been very helpful in guiding him through the past few months since he was widely condemned for posting a video on social media. The 21-year-old posted a video of him groping a female in the back of a car in December last year, shortly after being announced as a Haas driver for 2021. Mazepin has received strong criticism for his actions in the time since and continues to do so, and with Haas saying it was dealing with the matter internally he says the team has been extremely supportive.