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Alpine boss admits saying ‘hello' to Mazepin

Mar.4 Dmitry Mazepin was simply 'catching up' at Formula 1's pre-season group test in Bahrain last week. That is the insistence of Alpine boss Oliver Oakes, who knows the controversial Russian well from their collaboration at the junior racing team Hitech. Observers in Bahrain were shocked to see Mazepin, whose Uralkali sponsorship and son Nikita were expelled from Haas at the outbreak of the Ukraine crisis three years ago, in the Sakhir paddock. Some believed the billionaire was a guest of Alpine, but now it appears that he may actually have simply had a generic guest pass – meaning F1 and the FIA had no prior knowledge of his attendance. Oakes admits he 'said hello' to Mazepin,...
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