Haas Formula 1 team🐠 principal Guenther Steiner has revealed Nikita Mazepin was left "p🎃retty beat up" by his race-ending opening lap spin in the Bahrain Grand Prix.

Mazepin crashed out of his debut F1 race on the first lap, spinning out on♈ the exit of Turn 2. 

The 🔜Russian rookie spun twice during practice and twice♐ again during qualifying.

Despite his mistake-ridden weekend, Steiner confirmed the team ܫis putting its arm around him as it looksꦆ to restore his confidence ahead of the next race at Imola.

“Yeah he was pretty beat up, Steiner said. “I just said to🌜 him to keep his headꦇ up and keep on going. For sure it’s not ideal what happened, but it happened. 

“He beats himself up pretty badly after but he’s ready to go again. We pushed him up again, but otherwise Mick did a good job. So at least🐼 we got half of what we wanted to achieve, 50 percent there.”

Mazepin came under fire during the off-season after a video emerged on his I👍nstagram story that showed him groping a woman’s breast in the back of a car before it was deleted.

Steiner was asked if the criticism over the winter period had affected Mazepin ahead of the new season, he replied: “It’s difficult to answer because I didn’t really think abou༺t it that way. For sure it’s not good, and you always want to prove yourself right. 

“I don’t know how much it affects you, nobody, especially at a young age, can take that one out completely. He seemed to be in a good place when we s𓄧tarted testing. He started in a pretty gooꦅd place. I wouldn’t put it down purely to that but for sure it’s never an advantage to have a winter like he had.”

Steiner dismissed suggestions Mazepin was too eager 💦to prove his doubters wrong in Bahrain.

“He was pushing, he wanted to push. His race on Sunday wasn’t long so he wasn’t over-motivated for a long time, because he only made 💝it to Turn 3. For sure he overdid it, but as I said before, he doesn’t feel great about it, the opposite, he feels bad about it.”