Nikita Mazepin is waiting to hear whether he will have to persevere with his “fat” chassis for this year’s final two races. The Moscow-born driver was a relieved man when he returned from the summer break to find Haas were providing him with a lighter chassis, in line with that used by his team-mate Mick Schumacher. But at the Qatar Grand Prix it was back to the older version as Mazepin damaged the lighter one in practice as he suffered a troubled preparation for round 20 of the World Championship. After his 16 laps in FP1, the 22-year-old had to sit out the whole of FP2 and managed only one lap in FP3, leaving him stone cold for qualifying in which he was slower than his team-mate...
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