Sacked Russian F1 driver Nikita Mazepin has £88m of property seized by Italian government

Nikita Mazepin’s sole Formulation 1 season included an array of embarrassing performances. (Picture by Hasan Bratic/DeFodi Photos through Getty Photos)

Property value practically £100 million has been seized from a Russian sportsman thought of to be one of many worst F1 drivers of the twenty first century.

Nikita Mazepin and his oligarch father Dmitry have confronted sanctions due to their hyperlinks to Putin.

The Mazepin household was added to the European Union’s checklist of sanctioned Russians in early March in response to the nation’s violent assault on Ukraine.

Dmitry Mazepin is the chairman of UralKali, an infinite state-owned fertiliser firm, and was referred to as for a one-to-meeting with Putin on the day the invasion started.

UralKali had been beforehand title sponsor of American-owned F1 crew Haas, who additionally employed his son Nikita as a driver for the 2021 season, till each contracts had been abruptly cancelled forward of the 2022 marketing campaign as soon as the invasion had begun.

Haas changed the fired Mazepin with former driver Kevin Magnussen as they tried to distance themselves from the 22-year-old and his controversial household.

Now, Italian police sources say that a villa in Sardinia, owned by the household and referred to as Rocky Ram, has been focused by investigators.

Nikita Mazepin is considered one of the worst F1 drivers in the 21st century
Nikita Mazepin is taken into account one of many worst F1 drivers within the twenty first century (AFP through Getty)

Up to now weeks, the Italian authorities is known to have seize virtually one billion euros value of property from rich Russians with hyperlinks to the Kremlin.

Amongst them is a superyacht value over half-a-billion owned by fertiliser and coal magnate Andrey Igorevich Melnichenko, which was impounded within the port of Trieste.

Mazepin’s Formulation 1 seat was primarily paid for by his father — he wouldn't have been deemed ok for a promotion to F1 had it not been for the huge money injection he introduced it to Haas, which had tumbled in direction of the again of the grid after becoming a member of the game in 2016.

The 22-year-old endured an embarrassing rookie season in Formulation 1 in 2021, spending the vast majority of the marketing campaign nicely off the tempo of the remainder of the sphere, spinning out steadily.

He additionally brought about harmful conditions for rivals by failing to maneuver out of the best way rapidly sufficient below blue flags.

Russia has been rendered a sporting and cultural pariah since Putin launched his assault.

FIFA and UEFA have banned Russian groups from participating in soccer competitions together with the World Cup, and the Formulation 1 Grand Prix scheduled for September in Sochi was cancelled, whereas Russia was additionally advised it can not take part on this yr’s Eurovision Music Contest.

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