I'm already falling down.
-Let's go. -Okay.
As a kid, I had an acquaintance of my dad,
which came up here five, six times a year
and I always wanted to come up with him.
But I was a kid then. He never would take me.
This year, I decided this would be a good way
to spend a few days away from all the hard work,
politics, racing of Formula 1.
Let's sit down right here, Johannes.
-Do we want to drink something? -Yes, sir!
-Cheers. -Cheers.
How is it going with the team?
It is difficult. I didn't imagine it to be as difficult as it turned out to be,
but Formula 1 is just so difficult
and there is a big difference
when you have two drivers that are new to Formula 1.
Just this morning, the Haas F1 team announced
both of their drivers would be leaving the team.
Last season was a little bit too dramatic, even for us.
- -Fuck!
And a big fire there! That was horrendous.
This year, we have got two rookies in our cars.
He absolutely turned into me.
It never rains, it pours on me.
It'll be difficult. I know the challenge in front of us.
It's fucking unbelievable.
One of the debutants' race is over before it's even begun.
But because nobody has ever done it,
it doesn't mean that it's wrong.
If we are not united as a team, then we are all going to shit, you know.
We just need to stay together and survive the season.
It's a long way to go!
Long fucking way to go.
Here we go.
The 51st Formula 1 World Championship Spanish Grand Prix
and the 31st to take place here in Barcelona.
I think after here, we should go three days to Amsterdam.
Hot box it for a week!
Too many cameras.
-Famous or something? -Morning.
Gonna be getting a nice little sweat on today.
-I wanna get on the water. -Still not warm though.
Fucking freezing. You need a thick wetsuit.
-Love how I've been holding this. -Yeah!
The whole time.
Fuck you guys.
Going into 2021, the Haas could not be more different.
There's no two ways about it.
Haas were in financially difficult straits
at the end of 2020…
Yeah, making my own coffee.
…and needed an injection of cash in order to ensure the future of the team
and livelihoods of all of its employees.
That ultimately came in the form of a Russian fertilizer company
owned by an oligarch.
He's not an oligarch. He's a fertilizer guy.
Are we on the radar?
-What? -On the radar with the movie?
Yeah, yeah, yeah. It doesn't matter. I'm used to it, you know? So don't worry.
We have no secrets, huh?
No secrets, but I am not hero.
-You are the boss, you are the hero.
-It's good. I mean, you're the sponsor. -Yes.
Mr. Mazepin owns Uralkali,
one of the biggest fertilizer companies in the world,
you know, if not the biggest one.
If we wouldn't have done what we did, to find partners, to find sponsors,
the chances that we wouldn't be here now would have been very high.
I sent you some comments.
I mentioned some suggestions.
Okay, I will write back. I just need to go do something.
No rush.
Dmitry is heavily involved in the financing of that team.
This season, he's always there.
All of our sponsors, they're not here just to give us money
and we can go racing. They want something out of it.
There's always expectations. It's just like, "What are they?" You know?
The look of Haas is very different this year.
The Mazepin money is definitely showing itself on the car.
Who came up with the Russian color scheme?
It is not a Russian color scheme, you know?
It could be American, it could be British. It's always the same colors, you know.
You know that I love a bit of controversy.
But the livery is not the only thing that's changed.
Hey, guys.
Nikita Mazepin, Haas F1 team.
-See you on the track. -Yeah.
My dad is a sponsor now, uh, of the team.
The relationship with my dad is… is really unique.
I think in… in total,
my dad's probably missed, like, 12 or 15 races,
um, and I've had more than 400 races in my life.
Yeah, listen, we need to have professional relationships,
not just be buddies.
Sure, we're friends,
but we're working towards a goal and everyone needs to do their job.
Every success and failure I've had,
you know, has always been our moment together as a family
and he supports me no matter what.
Nikita Mazepin, I think, is a very good driver.
I mean, a great talent in my opinion.
He could have finished, with a little bit more luck,
third last year in F2,
and it was a very competitive year in F2.
So, you are new to most people in the Formula 1 world,
but there are people who have a lot of opinions about you
and about your father and about your father's money
without even knowing you. How does that feel for you?
I think criticism isn't a bad thing.
Give me as much shit as you want. Uh, I'm there to race.
I will race and I'm here to stay.
I think part of my job is recognizing
that this sport is a sport that likes conflicts
because it makes, you know, the clicks.
Haas's two rookies are incredibly important for the sport.
-Have a good one. -Thanks for your time.
One, through the sponsorship that he brings due to his father,
is responsible for the team still being on the grid
and the other one has one of the most famous names
in global motorsport.
-So, um, now my name, right? -Yep.
Okay. Uh…
Mick Schumacher, I'm 22 years old and racing for Haas.
Mick Schumacher doesn't need any introduction.
Stay there.
His father was a seven-time world champion.
And Mick is his son and, uh, comes with a good pedigree.
Being there around and seeing my father work
was, uh, was amazing for me.
He is and always will be the greatest in Formula 1.
I've won Formula 3 and Formula 2, uh, to do this.
Obviously, the hype has been big, racing with the Schumacher name,
but I don't think that it's something that is necessarily on my mind
'cause it's just something that has always been there.
All right.
Welcome!
Hello. You good?
-Yeah, and you? -Yeah, thanks.
They're doing a photo shoot. Look here, Guenther
-Ooh! -I did that especially for you!
So let's go upstairs.
-Morning. -Super.
Hello, Mick.
It's pretty cool to have Mick. Being a German driver,
Mick brings a good interest of German sponsors.
Very good.
Especially when the driver's Schumacher.
In Germany, the name is still legendary.
I can't reach the floor with my feet.
Excellent. Direct and friendly.
Being in a small team,
it's a challenge to stay afloat.
You just try to do your best to keep it going, you know?
That's what you have to do.
In the moment, I'm not too proud to do these things, you know?
Okay, thank you.
The other way round, yes.
With the bow to the front.
-The point forwards? -The point there.
Bow. It's "bow" and "stern," right?
-Bow? -Yeah, right, bow.
Of course you don't have to actually sit in it.
I wouldn't be able to get out of it!
My boat.
Selling saunas, selling bathtubs,
selling whatever needs to be,
but it's part of our contracts, we have to do this.
Sauna salesman, the perfect sideline for you.
I sold houses 20 years ago, so that's why, as you can see.
Alex, my dream has come true. I am now in an Aldi brochure!
That's…
Do you think that was the aim of my life, getting in the Aldi catalogue?
Hello, Guenther. How are you?
Haas has obviously never run rookies before.
I'm just wondering how you're changing your approach.
They are a fucking bunch of wankers.
So are we gonna see a softer side to Guenther Steiner?
We've got two fucking idiots driving for us.
This is not acceptable. We will make changes.
How are you adapting to deal with these rookies?
I… I am adapting. I'm rational.
I'm fully aware they never did it, you know.
It's like putting them under pressure now is the complete wrong thing
because you get a counter reaction. They need to learn, get the confidence.
And then they can deliver.
Haas is like a family company.
Everybody's very close together.
Ooh! Oh God!
So many bits of me fucking nearly snapped then.
The most important thing for us this year is to build a new family.
-We need one with you and Mick. -He can come here.
Make them ready for next year so we can be competitive again next year.
We just need to stay together and finish the season.
The team was saved, that's the main thing.
Yeah. That's the main thing. We can build up from here.
It gets expensive for you if Nikita keeps crashing.
-At some stage it will. -Yeah.
The beginning of the season for Nikita wasn't easy.
Oh, and it's Nikita Mazepin off.
Oh, fuckin' hell.
Nikita Mazepin,
his first Grand Prix lasting precisely three corners.
Oh, and that's Mazepin in the gravel.
Fuckin' hell.
That was Nikita Mazepin giving him a tap.
He's having a baptism of fire, is Mazepin.
It's Mazepin. Of course it is.
Just try and avoid Mazepin round here.
He's a fucking disaster.
If I could just have a short summation of your day.
-I don't wanna. -Okay.
Nikita is struggling a little, but I think that will go away.
It's difficult to keep people calm, but that's what we need to do.
If you overreact now, there's nothing good coming out.
Mick's in a good way. He's going in the right direction.
Checkered flag, Mick.
-Really good drive, man. -Yeah. Car was great. Thank you.
For Formula 1, Mick maybe is a little bit better prepared,
but still, it's a big change for them. It's a big step up.
Not a very good mood in here.
-What can you do? -Yeah.
-Keep fighting. -Yeah.
-Good job. -Thank you.
Mazepin has qualified slower than teammate Mick Schumacher
in every race so far this season,
so he'll be out and desperate to prove a point in Spain.
Nikita Mazepin's so unhappy.
He can't get on top of the car, can't understand how it works.
It's chipping away at his confidence every time he gets in the car.
Tension is brewing.
There is always pressure with the title sponsor,
especially when the CEO of that company is the father of the driver.
The pressure from outside is immense.
Barcelona should be an interesting weekend.
I think it's a circuit that I know very well.
I've had the luck of driving very fast cars here.
I also did very well here in different junior categories,
and it should be a step forward.
The rear tire temps look good. Rear tire temps look good.
Fronts will come down a little bit in the lap.
-Got it. Good. Cool.
This is fucking madness.
Are you okay? Are you okay? -All good.
Mazepin coming back on the track, flicking gravel everywhere,
That's not gonna be very pleasant for all the other drivers.
Fucking hell.
Should be on it here 'cause he knows the track.
That's what he's been saying the whole time, that he knows.
I'll speak to him afterwards and see what he says.
Talk us through what you felt on that.
Asking me for feedback. I give you the feedback.
We do a change,
and it does exactly the opposite of what I'm asking for.
So the only thing we've done is we've gone back.
Why am I also so much slower on the straight than my teammate?
I'll double check. Stand by.
Very good Improvement on that lap, Mick.
You did a good job.
The car was great. It felt really good. Thank you.
Good, good.
I don't know why you kept telling me I should improve on lap three
because, uh, it's not possible.
We saw some people were able to set times later on, that's all.
-I was not. Copy.
Fuckin' hell. That's why people hate you!
This fucking shit here.
It's simply undrivable.
Everything I did in the other series, it's impossible now.
It's great to invest in next year, but I still need to drive it now.
I don't understand how he drives it.
There's not a lot of friends here. Not a lot of friends, yeah.
Every man for himself.
For rookie drivers, the confidence level
is determined by your results, obviously, you know,
and for Nikita, uh, sometimes it seems that he's beaten by Mick.
And when you're beaten, it knocks you down.
Fucking hell. I was snapping, understeering, oversteering.
I was doing loads of things.
It's something we need to talk about, see if we can do something.
If we change the car, it makes a difference.
Great.
Oof!
-Yeah, it was real fun. -Yeah.
A general comment. Um…
There's a very big delta between C1 and C3.
C1 is undrivable for me.
I mean, you're not really racing. You're really trying to stay on track.
I don't wanna take C3 into account
'cause I don't understand anything about that tire.
You mean C1?
-Yeah, C1 is undrivable. -Yeah.
I don't wanna talk about it. I really don't know the balance--
That's fine. Let's focus on C3.
When you are finished, can we have a chat please?
First of all, I want to tell you that we really try to help you
but you need to help me as well.
When on the radio, do not be aggressive.
You don't achieve anything. They are afraid of you.
If I am a pussy--
No, you are not a pussy. I'm not saying you need to be loved.
I'm just saying to be very neutral, you know?
Not being, "Oh, this is fucking shit." That doesn't help anybody, you know.
Being nice about the situation
won't help me fucking stay here.
If we are not united as a team we are all going to shit.
-I'm really trying to do my best. -Yeah--
But they're saying I need to improve my lap time on turn three
because, you know, Mick did it.
But you need to keep on trying.
We are getting you closer to Mick. I know that is the fucking frustration.
But there is not a magic thing for this car
and I think Mick can deal with it better.
So what we need to do?
At this moment,
I think that the most beneficial way that we can do it
is by trying to make a different car for me.
I mean, it's the same car.
As much as you believe it's not, it's the same car, you know?
It's a beautiful day on the shores of the Mediterranean.
Welcome along to the 51st World Championship Spanish Grand Prix
and to the Circuit de Barcelona-Catalunya.
-Hello. -How are you?
-A bit pissed off. -Why again?
-I want to go faster. -Aye, we all want to go faster.
What's the biggest difference with our cars?
The other car has slightly lower rear ride height,
giving him slightly more rear end.
Maybe we do that as well?
Okay.
F1 is a brutal world to be in when something is just not going right
and if you look at my results,
it was clear that the car was not drivable
over and over and over again.
Every Formula 1 driver has to believe that they're the best.
That's the mindset.
So if they're not outperforming their teammate
with the same equipment,
they will question the engine,
the gearbox,
"Do I have the same car? Do I have the same chassis?"
They will go through every single part of the car that could be different
before they will focus on themselves.
We give everybody the same equipment.
They're equal by contract. That is what it is in our team.
This whole drama, I think it could be superstition.
It's the driver, so he can change the car.
Still, if you don't do the right things on track, you will not be faster.
There's so much pressure on these young guys
when they come into Formula 1, so they want to overdeliver,
which is not possible because the other 18 guys out there,
they're pretty good, you know?
They all believe there is magic.
No. This is no magic, this sport.
This sport is hard work, fucking dedication--
-And money to keep it all going. -Yeah, exactly.
If you don't put money in, this doesn't work.
It's race day here in Barcelona.
Round four of the season.
Another poor qualifying session means Mazepin is again at the back of the grid
behind teammate Mick Schumacher.
Radio check.
Loud and clear.
And we're racing in Barcelona.
Pack up to those guys in front. -Copy.
One man who's made a very good start, Mick Schumacher.
Mick's doing a great job, isn't he, there at Haas?
The rears are going!
Mick Schumacher, George Russell, Nicholas Latifi,
and getting detached at the back of it, Nikita Mazepin.
I don't have much rears.
Mazepin struggling a touch.
These tires are not enjoying it.
Lewis Hamilton's coming up to lap Mazepin.
-How's the balance? -Not good!
He's just gone half a second slower on that previous lap.
If you can push more, it may help.
I'm driving whatever I can.
Oh, this is turning out horribly.
If I push more, it's getting bad.
Okay, checkered flag, Mick. Checkered flag.
Tough race, Maz.
The car's very hard to drive. The balance is like day and night.
It's something completely opposite.
Well, listen. I, too, believe
that it's impossible to have such a difference.
When shit happens it doesn't finish, you know.
What are you doing with my son?
I think the team doesn't know what to do.
If it doesn't change,
I will send an official letter that we stop financing and stop racing.
-It will be a huge problem with the money. -Mm.
-And they will decide what to do. -Mm-hmm.
Because we will not keep this,
"Let's do, let's do. Let's try, let's try."
We already tried three races
and if we remove the Uralkali,
we stop racing.
Switch the cars.
Everybody knows that someone has advantage.
-That's why-- -Maybe we will stop racing.
I just wanted to say to you that Dmitry came
and he said he was going to pop a formal letter.
About what?
Withdrawing.
Withdrawing from what? Formula 1, huh?
Why?
He thinks there's a difference in the cars.
He keeps on about that.
Well, we need to get… We just need to get this…
We need to get on top of this one way or the other.
Guenther's in a really weird space this year
because 2021 is about survival for Haas.
It's about making it through however many races there are in the year
and getting to 2022.
He just needs to keep the team together and just get to the end.
How high is the Tabaretta?
-2,550 meters. -2,550 meters, yeah.
Take it slow.
Okay.
Don't worry. I don't stress myself.
How's it going with Nikita?
And especially with his father?
We have contracts with Uralkali
and hopefully, they will be respected.
But you can't just come into Formula 1
and expect that everything goes as you wish.
Oh damn!
It is quite consuming, you know?
Mentally, because it's a big responsibility.
We have got a lot of employees
and I feel responsibility towards them.
No fear. No fear.
It's a little bit extreme in Formula 1.
Whatever you do, any move you make, it's scrutiny, and that creates pressure.
The rope will hold us, won't it?
You're always on the limit. You're never in a comfort zone.
The summer break gives you an opportunity to step back and digest things.
Oof!
What I would say for Nikita,
"Do what you need to do to clean your head out
so you can think clearly again, digest everything."
"Work it off and out of your system
because to survive, everybody needs to be united."
Nice, man.
Keep it going. Well done.
It's definitely good to go home.
If there's one place where I don't feel like an F1 driver, it's in Russia.
All the tension that you get
from traveling and racing and perhaps some difficult moments…
Left straight!
Good. Well done. And… Good! Lighter!
It's very important to reset and release some steam.
I was stressing out in Barcelona.
-But not only there. In Bahrain. -In FP1.
I don't know,
I just think if you're more than a second off your teammate,
there must be something wrong
and you were really just losing confidence.
And then, from… from just going into the second race,
it kept on going, and I was getting a bit worried
because there was something that wasn't right.
Ever since Bahrain, things really did fall apart.
Formula 1 is obviously a big step up.
You go out there and you have to be on the limit
and if you overstep it,
that's the difference between spinning or being in the wall.
Um, if you don't have that confidence,
I'm not able to extract the potential from the car.
Guenther's definitely been supportive
in times when I think I did need that support
because I felt very fragile,
but he's also, uh… been very direct at times when he hasn't been happy.
You know, you're a kid, in a way,
in a very big sport.
Do you feel confident now?
Yeah, I feel really confident. I think…
Like, for me, Sochi is the biggest race of this year.
And I think I've got the perfect prep for Sochi.
This could be one of the races where anything can happen.
You're competing against your teammate, so honestly,
I mean, it's a question of who of you is gonna finish in front.
It'd be nice if you finished in front of him this weekend. That'd be nice.
This is the eighth World Championship Russian Grand Prix.
"Lose the hood."
"No, I'm really in the hood now."
"Lose the…" Oh, you don't…
-Scary Movie? -Yeah, yeah.
Hey.
-How you doing? You good? -Yeah.
-The winter jacket. -Yeah, I'm freezing! You know?
Morning.
Welcome to Russia, man.
Typical Russia, huh?
Where is he going at this time?
Ayao-san.
-All right? -I'm good.
-Happy to be home? -Very busy, man.
-Yeah. -You know--
-Should be. It's your home race. -Fuckin' hell.
It's a very difficult year
for Nikita, his father, and the Haas F1 team.
So, to keep the team together,
what Nikita needs from his home race
is no spins, no crashes,
bring the thing home, rebuild confidence, and just prove that he belongs.
The Russian Grand Prix is the most important for the Mazepin family.
It is very, very important for them just to show up there.
Uralkali's a big company in Russia.
It's the first year for Nikita in Russia.
They want to show their countrymen what they're able to do
and that creates additional pressure,
so it's all… it's all pretty intense.
If you have good results, everybody's always happy,
and I want to keep all our partners happy.
Was there ever the fear that Dmitry could withdraw that sponsorship?
-I don't want to go there on an interview. -Okay.
Going into Sochi, it seems
Haas have listened to their driver Nikita Mazepin
They've given him a new chassis for his home Grand Prix.
It's anyone's guess whether it will make a difference.
Remember, Haas yet to score this year,
and Mick has been ahead in the last 13 Grands Prix.
Two minutes till we go. Two minutes.
It's the Russian Grand Prix.
Five lights are on and it's lights out and away we go!
Sainz getting a good slipstream. Hamilton trying to go down the inside.
Ooh, and Schumacher has contact with Giovinazzi.
That could have damaged the car.
Oh, fuckin' hell.
It's a good start.
Nice first lap, dude. Nice first lap.
Mode push. Mode push.
Mick, we need spark six.
Spark six, they have a slight issue.
Spark six.
Mick, we have to box now.
Box to retire the car.
We cannot resolve the issue in this decaying situation.
I'm sorry about that, so box now please to retire the car.
Mick Schumacher in the Haas out of the Russian Grand Prix.
Tell me what you want me to work on, please.
Think about brake balance. and adjust the position
if you need it or not.
I see some very light spitting.
Understood. Understood. We're monitoring it.
With four laps to go, we're expecting some light drops of rain.
-We need to box for inters. Understood.
Are you sure we need inters? Are you sure we need inters?
Yes.
Understood. Box, Nikita, box. Box, Nikita, box.
I saw the clouds building up and getting darker and darker
and, I don't know, the clouds in Russia are different.
I remember leaving from school and normally, when you see these clouds,
you know that in 20 minutes the rain's gonna start
and to be honest, I didn't really think twice.
Mazepin pitting very early for wet tires.
This is a big call.
It could work out really well for him if it does rain,
but most other teams are staying out for now.
Sebastian, we think the rain might get worse before it gets better,
so probably inters. What's your thoughts?
It's getting less. Track's getting better.
Copy that. Stay out.
Are you happy on the tire? Your call, Checo. Do you want inters?
No.
Copy.
Car in front is Mazepin.
The more experienced drivers are not changing their tires.
Has Mazepin got this all wrong?
Maz, let's start to use this tire now. Use this tire.
Lando, what do you think about the inter?
No!
Oh, this is a tough call for Lando Norris.
It's too wet in the middle sector. Norris is all over the place.
He's been unlapped by Mazepin.
Okay, Maz. We think we can push a bit harder on these tires.
Mode push. Mode push.
This is brilliant, mate. SOC six. SOC six.
Now there is more rain. Shit.
Yeah. Copy that. Box, Sebastian, box.
Now Vettel realizes he should have changed tires.
Oh, and Norris slides off!
It's all slipping away from the British driver.
Poor guy.
It's fucking… It's full wet, boys.
-I can't do this. We're gonna come in, box.
Nice laps, Maz. Nice laps. Let's keep going like this. This is good.
Starting last lap.
Lewis Hamilton, it's 100 race victories,
he wins the Russian Grand Prix!
Okay, Maz, that's the checker. That's the checker.
Brilliant start and opening lap,
and that first stint was really good defending against faster cars.
Good call on the tires, then?
Others didn't do that as quick as you
and then, as you saw, struggled, so good job.
Ended up beating Latifi and Mick.
Nice race, mate.
I think Nikita, he earned his place in F1.
Nikita is getting better each race, you know.
We can see progress not only in the times, but also how he works with people
and how he does his job in Formula 1.
Thank you. Cheers.
-Very happy. Yeah. -Yeah.
Race by race, he becomes calmer.
-Exactly. -Yeah.
Really positive. Um…
Really, really good.
-Yeah. -Thank you.
We believe in each other.
We can only get better from where we stand today
and, uh, we'll do it.
-Thank you. -Thank you.
You learn from the most difficult situation.
And I also say that to young people.
It is not how you go down, but how you come back.
If I would have known how difficult it was,
maybe I wouldn't have done it.
In F1, you don't really know what is coming next.
Always that risk element is involved.
I can deal with that and hopefully get always something good out of it.
If it doesn't work out, try again.
Never give up.
-Bravo, Guenther. -Salute the mountains!
-Thanks. -Johannes, bravo.
Salute the mountains!
Bravo.
That's elixir of life!
This year, a lot of things needed to be sorted,
but in the end, I think there's been a lot of lessons learned over the year.
We are still here and we are building up to be stronger next year.
How strong, I have no idea.
It's the toughest year of my career.
-The pressure's more on Daniel. -Ferrari's now ahead of us.
We need both drivers bringing home points.
-Daniel's driving too slow. -Agree to disagree.
It'll be a fight to the finish.
We lost four drivers.
These are the races where anything can happen.
You're leading the Grand Prix.
How would you describe relations at the moment?
Fucking asshole!
There is no relationship.