Mazepin keeping legal options open after Haas F1 team split

Mazepin insists that he’d had no contact from team boss Gunther Steiner after the previous week’s Barcelona test, where the Russian colours were removed from the car, and he only found out about his sacking at the same time as the rest of the world.

He says that he was ready to sign the document provided by the FIA to Russian drivers, which would allow them to compete under a neutral flag, while he also received a second letter from the FIA on the matter and was still…