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Steiner comfortable with Mazepin superlicence 'risk'

Haas team boss Guenther Steiner says he was comfortable signing up F2 racer Nikita Mazepin for 2021 despite the young Russian still having to secure his F1 superlicence. Mazepin current sits third in the FIA Formula 2 Championship standings ahead of the series final rounds this weekend at Sakhir. Only a dramatic turn of events in Bahrain would set back Mazepin in the F2 championship's final standings and put the 21-year-old at risk of missing out on a superlicence. But that's a "slim" risk Steiner accepts. "Obviously we spoke with the FIA when we started the conversations about it, how this would work," Steiner explained, quoted by Motorsport.com. "I don’t think...
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