Guenther Steiner says radio messages criticising Nikita Mazepin are 'attention-grabbing' by F1, and has defended his driver's Portuguese GP penalty. Haas rookie Mazepin has yet to walk away from a grand prix weekend without a barrage of complaints against his name. At the Bahrain GP, which ended with a spin and a crash, he was criticised for jumping the queue in qualifying with a similar complaint levelled three weeks later at Imola. As for Portimao, it was again in qualifying where it started, branded a 'f***ing idiot' and a 'dumbass' by Nicholas Latifi who felt Mazepin had blocked him. Just over 24 hours later, Sergio Perez called the Russian rookie a ' f***king idiot' too when he...
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