In 2021 only one Formula 1 Grand Prix passed, but it is feared that the Russian driver Nikita Mazepin is the new big danger on the track and it is done quickly and it is not an exaggeration to believe that it will cause more damage in the future.
The midfielder of the Haas team, unfortunately for him, but happy for the rest of the grid, lasted no more than 24 seconds at the Bahrain Grand Prix, which opened the 2021 F1 season.
Unhappiness paints his whole body. He starts last, has problems bypassing the first two corners, and in the third without any contact or obstruction from another car, he loses control and reaches a retaining wall.
It’s not about scrapping the crashed car (to paraphrase the fallen tree), but in my opinion, the 22-year-old stayed on the circuit for two more laps than I would have expected, with the lucky circumstance that it didn’t affect anyone else. .
So, recently, the attempt to maneuver with Romain Grosjean was a certain risk, because the Frenchman in his desire to give dignity to the catastrophic Haas car often reached the edge of the track, now passing Mazepin will be an extreme sport.
In Grosjean’s defense, the Frenchman is a good driver who fought a terrible car and put himself in danger. We all saw what happened in Bahrain, the fire and how it saved lives.
Mazepin in a separate case, because he is a boy with irresponsible handling, questionable talent and insufficient merit to be in the highest category.
A good driver in a bad car is a danger to himself, because trying to get the car driven or fast will be confusing. However, a driver with dubious skills and a wild head in a bad car is a danger to himself and others, because not only will he try to get out of the car what he does not have, but also on the road he will threaten the rest of the car with she.car on the track for their lack of expertise.
This seems to be Nikita Mazepin, whom it is unfair to compare to Venezuelan pastor Maldonado, as some bold people already do on social media. It is unfair for Pastor, who, although he had far more F1 misfortunes than he would have liked, managed to win a Grand Prix and was GP2 champion.
What the Russian, the son of the owner of a natural gas company, inherits is the unstable pilot label that many have given Maldonado.
And Mazepin is not judged by a race, but by an extensive blog of dangerous situations in his sporting life and to show what happened in 2020 in the Feature F2 race in Bahrain (apparently the place of his “big hits”).
That December, on the Sakhir track, Nikita was about to turn Yuki Tsunoda and Felipe Drugovich into “murals”, pulling them off the track to the right and forcing them to go against a wall. Various trajectory changes, totally unsportsmanlike. If he had done that 2,200 years ago in the Roman Colosseum, he would have come out on his shoulders, with laurels on his forehead, but he no longer competes in chariots and there are no races until death.
Before, in 2019 inside F3, Mazepin caught Callum Illot with his fists because he blocked him in a practice. Thus, collisions, actions and immature and unbridled attitudes can be listed.
Off the track, his Instagram story was famous, where he was recorded abusing a woman who was drunk, a “peccadillo” that the Haas team, which had just announced for 2021, failed, but in no case did endangered the place that his father – formerly an official of the Russian gas parastatal, now its owner (incredible how there are people who are progressing so rapidly from an economic point of view) – bought, because there is no other explanation, for him.
All this tells us about a pattern of behavior. The FIA will have to take into account the Russian’s record if he ever has to decide whether or not to punish him for his actions on the F1 tracks.
We hope we are exaggerating. May Guenther Steine and Gene Haas bring out the best in him and make him a responsible pilot. That what is established here is just the past and that Mazepin is, not only fast as he has shown in his career, but also a pilot who manages to mature. Only if.
But the one born for a bowling ball either goes down the canal or carries more forward.