Nikita Mazepin's father Dmitry said it was he, not Haas, who paid for the new chassis which was introduced this season. Mazepin struggled in the early stages of his Haas career to match the performance level of team-mate Mick Schumacher, complaining that the chassis which he was using contributed heavily to that. Team boss Guenther Steiner said that chassis could well have been slower, and despite claiming that Schumacher too had used it, apparently also at the request of Mazepin Snr, Haas developed a new chassis for Mazepin. However, it seems that Haas were not the ones paying for it, instead Dmitry said it was he who did so, to ensure that his son had a fair chance against Schumacher....
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