Nikita Mazepin’s future with Haas F1 is up in the air as team principal Guenther Steiner confirmed on Friday that he will “work” on the sponsorship deal with Uralkali “next week.”
The driver is the son of the company's founder, Dmitry Mazepin, and according to ESPN, Dmitry was one of the business leaders who met with President Vladimir Putin on Thursday about the sanctions on Russia.
As far as Nikita’s status, Steiner said on Friday, “It needs to be resolved.
“Not everything depends from us here what is happening. There's governments involved, I have no power over them, and we also need to see how the situation develops in Ukraine.