{"id":18318,"date":"2022-03-05T15:04:55","date_gmt":"2022-03-05T09:34:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/?p=199815"},"modified":"2022-03-05T15:23:15","modified_gmt":"2022-03-05T09:53:15","slug":"haas-f1-team-terminates-the-driver-contract-of-nikita-mazepin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/formula-1\/haas-f1-team-terminates-the-driver-contract-of-nikita-mazepin\/","title":{"rendered":"Haas F1 team terminates driver contract of Nikita Mazepin"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Haas, the Formula One team, terminated Nikita Mazepin\u2019s contract and the driver will not race for them in 2022. The team also terminated its contract with the title sponsor, Uralkali.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">BREAKING: Haas terminate Mazepin's contract<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/F1?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#F1<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/ysKBx87sAd\">pic.twitter.com\/ysKBx87sAd<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Formula 1 (@F1) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/F1\/status\/1500032618133340162?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 5, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>The formula one team was really disturbed due to the invasion of Ukraine and had to take this decision. The team statement read that HAAS F1 has decided to terminate the contract of Nikita Mazepin immediately and standing with the Formula 1 community, they are \u201cshocked by the invasion of Ukraine.\u201d The statement ended with a wish for a peaceful end to the crisis going on between Russia and Ukraine.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">TEAM STATEMENT <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/HaasF1?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#HaasF1<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/5aEXLzYtmV\">pic.twitter.com\/5aEXLzYtmV<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 MoneyGram Haas F1 Team (@HaasF1Team) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/HaasF1Team\/status\/1500031737581158412?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 5, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>F\u00e9d\u00e9ration Internationale de l\u2019Automobile, the sport\u2019s governing body, gave the option to Russian and Belarusian drivers to compete in international motorsport if they agreed to race under a neutral flag. They are not allowed to express any type of support towards Russia\u2019s actions.<\/p>\n<p>However, on Saturday, Haas announced that the deals with Mazepin and Uralkali had been terminated. News regarding the replacement driver will be revealed the following week.<\/p>\n<p>Mazepin joined the team in 2021 as part of a sponsorship deal with title sponsor Uralkali. Uralkali, the fertilizer company is partly owned by Nikita\u2019s father, Dmitry Mazepin. Dmitry was part of a discussion with Vladimir Putin regarding sanctions placed on the country following the invasion of Ukraine.<\/p>\n<p>Uralkali\u2019s branding from the car was removed during the final day of the preseason test in Barcelona last week.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Haas F1 team terminates contract with Russian driver Nikita Mazepin. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":437,"featured_media":39053,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[402,2767,3116],"class_list":["post-18318","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-formula-1","tag-formula-1","tag-nikita-mazepin","tag-russia-ukraine"],"reading_time":"2 min read","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18318","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/437"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18318"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18318\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/39053"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18318"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18318"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18318"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}