While Schumacher made a positive step forward at the Portuguese Grand Prix last time out and pulled off a late overtake on Williams driver Nicholas Latifi to take 17th, Mazepin finished last for the second race in a row having crashed out on the first lap of his debut in Bahrain. The Russian’s early-season struggles appear to be continuing at this weekend’s Spanish Grand Prix, with Mazepin spinning in opening practice on Friday and finishing at the bottom of the timesheets in both sessions, almost 0.4s adrift of Schumacher in FP2. The American team has opted against developing its 2021 F1 car in order to focus on 2022 and Steiner believes that Mazepin’s struggles have been...
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