Only one Formula 1 Grand Prix has passed in 2021, but fears that Russian driver Nikita Mazepin is the new big danger on the track are quickly raised and it is no exaggeration to think that he will be more damaged in the future. will wreak.
The Haas team midfielder, 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.
The accident paints him the whole body. He starts on the last row, struggles to get around the first two corners, and in the third without any contact or obstruction from another car, he loses control and hits a retaining wall.
It’s not about demolishing the crashed car (to paraphrase the fallen tree), but in my opinion, the 22-year-old stayed on the track two more turns than I expected, with the fortunate fact that it didn’t bother anyone. different.
So as recently, maneuvering alongside Romain Grosjean posed a certain risk, as the Frenchman in his eagerness to give dignity to the catastrophic Haas car often landed on the side of the track, now passing near Mazepin will be an extreme be sports.
In Grosjean’s defense, the Frenchman is a good driver who fought a terrible car and put himself in grave danger. We have all seen what happened in Bahrain, the fire and how it saved lives.
The Mazepin in a separate case, because he is a boy with irresponsible handling, questionable talent and insufficient earnings to fall into the highest category.
A good driver in a bad car is a danger to himself because if he tries to make that car drivable or fast, he gets confused. But a driver with questionable skills and a wild head in a bad car is a danger to himself and others, because not only will he try to take what he doesn’t have from the car, but he will threaten on the way as well. the rest of the car, cars on the road because of their lack of expertise.
That seems to be Nikita Mazepin, who is unfair to compare to the Venezuelan Reverend Maldonado, as some daring people already do on social networks. It is unfair to Pastor who, although he had many more F1 accidents than he would have liked, was able to win a Grand Prix and was a GP2 champion.
What the Russian, the son of a gas company owner, inherits is the unstable pilot label many attribute to Maldonado.
And Mazepin is not judged on a race, but on an extensive blog about dangerous situations in his sporting life, and to show what happened in 2020 at the Feature race of F2 in Bahrain (apparently the site of his ‘big hits’).
In December, Nikita at the Sakhir circuit was about to turn Yuki Tsunoda and Felipe Drugovich into “murals” by taking them off the track on the straight and forcing them to hit a wall. Various job changes, totally unsportsmanlike. Had he done that 2,200 years ago in the Roman Colosseum, he would have come on his shoulders, laurels on his forehead, but they no longer compete in chariots, nor are they races to the death.
Earlier, in 2019 in F3, Mazepin caught Callum Illot with punches for blocking him during a practice. Thus one can enumerate collisions, actions and immature and unbridled attitudes.
Off the track, his Instagram story was famous where he was shot assaulting a woman who was drunk, a ‘peccadillo’ who failed the Haas team, which had just announced it for 2021, but in no way took the seat that his father – formerly an official of Russian parastatal gas, now its owner (unbelievable how there are people who are making such dizzying economic progress) – bought, because there is no other explanation for him.
All of this tells us about a pattern of behavior. The FIA will have to consider the Russian’s record if it ever has to decide whether or not to penalize him for his actions on F1 circuits.
Hopefully we are over the top. May Guenther Steine and Gene Haas bring out the best in him and make him a responsible pilot. What has been settled 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 grow up. If it only were.
But the one born for a bowling ball goes down the channel or advances several.