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Mazepin threatened to pull Uralkali funding from Haas in 2021
Uralkali chairman Dmitry Mazepin threatened to terminate the company's sponsorship of the Haas F1 outfit in 2021 if the team didn't switch chassis between his son Nikita and Mick Schumacher. Early last season, Mazepin claimed that his underperformance relative to Schumacher was due to him racing a heavier car than his teammate, one that he claimed left him as a "sitting duck" among the laggards at the tail end of the field. Haas team boss Guenther Steiner would later confirm that there was a slight weight difference between Mazepin and Schumacher's year-old VF-21 cars "depending on the weight distribution". But the Italian insisted at the time that the disparity was...
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