Guenther Steiner has addressed the Haas team's rejection in qualifying in Mexico City of a request by Nikita Mazepin to overtake teammate Mick Schumacher, and the Russian driver's annoyance with the call. Mazepin was preparing for his Q1 run when came up upon a slow-moving Schumacher who was himself positioned behind a Williams. The Haas pair alternate their running order in Q1 at every race, but when asked if he could overtake his teammate, Mazepin received a negative answer from his race engineer. "Are you having a laugh?" the Russian quipped sarcastically over the radio, a remark that did not go down well with Ayao Komatsu, the US outfit's chief race engineer who told the...
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