F1 has been against social evils and has recently started acting actively against them. The We Race as One initiative is aimed at fighting COVID-19 and global inequality. F1 Academy was introduced to promote women across different Motorsport classes. For a similar cause, F1 is speculated to reject a new possible entrant linked to Nikita Mazepin’s father who’s worth $2.8 Billion. Who is this new entrant? What’s in it for Nikita Mazepin?

F1 removed the Sochi GP from its calendar ever since the war waged between Russia and Ukraine. For similar reasons, Russian driver Nikita Mazepin’s contract was also terminated by Haas. As the Russian invasion of Ukraine continues, F1 and FIA keep a safe distance from any activities related to Russia or the Russian economy. However one of the new F1 entrants might still have links in Russia and Nikita Mazepin. But how? 

In the latest episode of Unlapped podcast, Hitech was revealed as one of the two teams that are possibly going to join the F1 Grid. However, the hosts pointed out Hitech’s connection to Dmitry Mazepin, a Russian Businessman as they said “Hitech is also interesting. That’s the team that used to be very closely run by Dmitry Mazepin, who’s Nikita Mazepin’s dad. He’s actually given up the ownership or at least publicly of that team. But is still believed to have a lot of say from him. I think F1 is very very cautious about the links to Russia at this point.”

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Hitech’s possible connection to Dmitry Mazepin might be a dealbreaker as F1 wants to stay away from having any links to Russia.  F1 is committed to it as was seen in Stefano Domenicali’s comments about a future Russian GP. But if Hitech makes it to F1 and Dmitry Mazepin is still involved, will Nikita Mazepin make a comeback to F1?

Stefano Domenicali’s comments about a future F1 GP in Russia

Russia’s invasion of Ukraine is a highly debatable topic. However, most of the economies around the world believe that what Russia did is wrong and hence boycotted the nation altogether. F1 followed a similar path by boycotting Russia in every possible way. Haas ended the sponsorship with Uralkali, a firm owned by Dmitry Mazepin. Stefano Domenicali made a bold statement about the Russian GP not returning to F1.

According to firstsportz.com, Stefano Domenicali said “I have always thought that we should never say never but in this case, I can promise with certainty that we will no longer negotiate with them. There will be no more races in Russia,”

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What do you think? Will Hitech make it to F1?