Then, in the race, the son of Haas team financier Dmitry Mazepin crashed into retirement on lap 1. “That’s a guy who just doesn’t belong here,” former F1 driver Mika Salo told the Finnish broadcaster C More. Oksana Kosachenko, the former manager of Russian driver Vitaly Petrov, also said writing off Mazepin so early is unfair. “This is the first race and both Nikita and Schumacher say themselves that they still have a lot to learn in Formula 1.”. “Hopefully the updates for Imola will make the car a little more enjoyable to drive,” he said. “I think we have a little problem with the behaviour of the car in dirty air.”.

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