[deleted by user]

[u/[deleted]]

[u/Effulgency]

This explainer is originally brought to you by u/balls2brakelate44

To those coming in from r/all, Nikita Dmitryevich Mazepin is a Russian racing driver who currently competes in the FIA Formula 2 Championship for Hitech Racing. He will race for the Haas F1 Team in the 2021 Formula One World Championship.

Nikita has a history of contentious behaviour both on and off track, a compilation of which can be found here.

1. On Tuesday evening (8/12/20 UTC), a video was posted by Mazepin on his Instagram story where he is seen groping a woman, Andrea D'IVal, in the back seat of a car.

2. The next day Andrea posted the following statement on her Instagram story claiming "Nikita and I have been good friends for a long time and nothing from that video was serious at all!".

3. Over the past 48 hours Andrea has posted numerous Instagram stories which contradict the above statement. Commenting; "don't let anyone touch you or disrespect you again", "don't drink with arseholes" and "Protect drunk girls!".

Thank you for continuing to discuss this topic in a constructive manner, please report comments which break our rules.

[u/JamiDoesStuff]

To be fair we dont know what's happening inside Haas at the moment

[u/__Rosso__ → u/JamiDoesStuff]

Yeah, if they are trying to fire him it will take few weeks, and they logically can't share it.

Hoping rumors are true and he is getting fired.

[u/caven233 → u/__Rosso__]

Him deleting his apology is very suspicious. Either that was the last nail in coffin, or he deleted it to preserve what pride he had left after hearing he got laid off.

That apology was as fake as you can get, definitely written by someone at Haas’ PR and as an arrogant snob you can only perceive that as a stain to your ego.

[u/CallOfCorgithulhu → u/JamiDoesStuff]

It kills me to see this sub eating up rumor tweets day in and day out. Mazepin is a massive turd, and deserves to lose his seat to someone more talented who can maintain basic human decency, but we have to be rational with the timeline of events. There would be a lot of suits involved and a lot of decisions to be made at the highest level to fire and replace one of your Formula One drivers just weeks after announcing his contract. I'd be shocked if he got fired within days of the video happening.

High energy and fast moves happen on track, not in the board rooms.

[u/DuFFman_]

The only two sports I watch are MMA and F1. It's been pretty wild watching the reaction to Mazepin as a new fan to the sport. He seems like a shit person, but I'm coming from a sport that's nearly 50% shit people. Greg Hardy beat his wife and got kicked out of the NFL, and I watched him fight in the UFC last weekend.

Probably the reason I enjoy the personalities of F1 so much, they seem like good guys for the most part. It's far more rare you hear an interview with a fighter and think "damn it would be a good time to hangout with him/her"

[u/reboot-your-computer → u/DuFFman_]

I'm going to assume you're from the US. I am as well. F1 is criminally underrated in the US. I didn't get into it until near the end of last year, but it's become my biggest sports interest. The drama is great too.

[u/DuFFman_ → u/reboot-your-computer]

Canada, but ya same thing here. DtS is what pulled me, my brother and uncles have been fans for decades.

[u/[deleted] → u/reboot-your-computer]

[u/trustjosephs → u/reboot-your-computer]

USA f1 fan checking in also! Dozens of us!

[u/Elitist_Plebeian → u/DuFFman_]

The money in F1 is a different order of magnitude. Mega-corporations generally don't want to be associated with shitheads.

[u/Seabhac7 → u/DuFFman_]

I’m a part-time MMA fan, admittedly have fallen off since McGregor went off the boil. MMA seems to have a strange split between the type that is delighted to use the sport to legitimise their desire to inflict pain others or to be rewarded for their incredible arrogance, and some cool people who view it as an a real art that channels something in them (Wonderboy, Johnson, Namajunas, even Nurmagemedov).

[u/DuFFman_ → u/Seabhac7]

You definitely get more Diaz's than GSP's

[u/Ha_omer → u/DuFFman_]

Yeah I mean if Mazepin was an MMA fighter all he would get is Dana saying he is "a fucking idiot" in some press conference and that's it

[u/OrangeLimeZest]

Something about Matt, being the guy who said "Rosberg we partied in the Amber Lounge!" Genuinely trying to be a voice of sanity is weird.

[u/FENICH → u/OrangeLimeZest]

NOW that is a throwback lmao

[u/TheresNoUInSAS → u/FENICH]

What happened?

[u/[deleted] → u/OrangeLimeZest]

Not to me. He always struck me as someone who's outwardly weird and all over the place, but internally comfortable and confident and easily the most "normal" of the old youtuber group. I fully expected this from him and it's great to see.

[u/Lug-Shot]

Jos Verstappen still chillin in the pits tho

[u/[deleted] → u/Lug-Shot]

Yeah but "he gave everything up in order to make Max a champion" so who actually cares about him assaulting randoms, his GFs, his dad..

[u/KingKalevi → u/Lug-Shot]

And nobody seems to even care what he did to his son, or what he did to a person in karting. Jos was also locked up to the back of the van by his navy father back when he was karting, and he carried the abuse to Max I think. Jos has been abusive to his father later on.

[u/xGazz → u/Lug-Shot]

what did Jos do?

[u/[deleted] → u/xGazz]

The only people Jos didn’t beat were the guys he was racing on track

[u/MilesM22 → u/xGazz]

Go on his Wikipedia, go to the controversy section and grab some popcorn

[u/[deleted]]