Nikita
Mazepin

Nikita Mazepin was born in Moscow on 2 March 1999. He started out in karting and finished runner-up to Lando Norris at the 2014 Karting World Championship. He then moved into single-seaters, racing in the Formula Renault Northern European Cup, where he was twelfth in 2015. In the FIA Formula 3 European Championship he finished 20th in 2016 and tenth in 2017. In 2018 he took four wins in the GP3 Series with ART Grand Prix and ended the year as runner-up, just 16 points behind Anthoine Hubert. He also placed third in the 2019-20 F3 Asian Championship.

Mazepin stepped up to Formula 2 in 2019 with ART Grand Prix and finished 18th overall. The following year he drove for Hitech, won the race in Britain and the feature race at Mugello, and finished fifth in the standings. From 2016 to 2018 he was a test driver for Force India, and in 2019 he set the fastest time at the Barcelona test driving the Mercedes W10.

In 2021 Mazepin joined Haas as team-mate to Mick Schumacher, running with the number 9. His debut in Bahrain ended with a crash on the first lap. He was entered in 22 races and started 21 of them. Monaco brought the first race in which he finished ahead of Schumacher, and his best result was 14th in Azerbaijan. His last start came in Saudi Arabia, and he missed the season finale in Abu Dhabi. He ended the championship 21st without a point, and did not race in Formula One again.

In rally raid, Mazepin won the T3 class of the 2022 Silk Way Rally in a Can-Am. In 2023 and 2024 he raced for 99 Racing in the Asian Le Mans Series. In 2023 he took a podium in the opening race in Dubai and finished fourth in the LMP2 drivers' standings. In 2025 he entered the Middle East Trophy with Graff Racing.

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