Guenther Steiner thinks he has shattered the myth that Nikita Mazepin is a “miserable young man” with the Haas team’s spinning top prank. The Moscow-born driver, in his rookie Formula 1 season, quickly acquired the nickname ‘Maze-spin’ and was even the subject of a website set up to track his number of spins. The current tally for the year is 12, not having been increased during a cleaner Styrian Grand Prix weekend. In an effort to improve the public perception of the 22-year-old, Haas set up a social media video in which Steiner presented Mazepin with a gift box which he opened to find a spinning top. “It’s the Mazespin, there are two of them now,” joked Steiner. “It’s...
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