- Russian starts fund helping athletes excluded due to war
- Mazepin unhappy with treatment by his former F1 team
The Russian driver Nikita Mazepin has hit back at the US-owned Haas Formula One team for sacking him after his country’s invasion of Ukraine and announced a foundation to support athletes unable to compete due to war or politics.
The 23-year-old told reporters in a video call from Moscow that the “We Compete as One” foundation would be funded by money paid by Uralkali, the Russian potash company owned by his billionaire father Dmitry, to Haas.