Haas boss Guenther Steiner has said Nikita Mazepin was 'pretty beat up' after a poor debut weekend in Bahrain. Following an off-season filled with controversy, Mazepin was all ready to take to the track and let his driving do the talking. It was always going to be difficult in a Haas VF-21 which we can see now is the slowest on the grid quite comfortably, but Mazepin's first race weekend in Formula 1 was a particularly rough one. The Moscow-born racer spun twice during Q1, the latter causing several drivers to abort key laps at the end of the session, while Sebastian Vettel picked up a five-place grid drop for not acknowledging the double yellow flags which were waving to cover the...
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