FIA receive request to cancel Nikita Mazepin’s licence over Russia’s Ukraine invasion

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The Automobile Federation of Ukraine (FAU) has requested the FIA to suspend all Russian licence holders, including F1 driver Nikita Mazepin, amid the nation’s widely-condemned invasion of Ukraine. Mazepin’s future on the grid faces uncertainty, and Haas pulled him from media duties during testing in Barcelona last week.

Russia launched a full-scale attack on Ukraine on Thursday, with the capital Kyiv and other major cities targeted by missile strikes over the last five days.

And as part of several sanctions imposed by the western world so far, F1 announced on Friday that September’s Russian Grand Prix wouldn’t be going ahead ‘in current circumstances’.

The decision came after world champions Sebastian Vettel and Max Verstappen both suggested they wouldn’t be racing in Russia if the race took place as planned.

New FIA president Mohammed Ben Sulayem has also offered his ‘full support and the support of the FIA’ to FAU.

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