Nikita Mazepin to get Romain Grosjean’s ex-engineer for next two F1 races
Mazepin’s usual race engineer, Dominic Haines, will m💫iss this weekend’s Turkish G🀅rand Prix, as well as the United States Grand Prix, due to what the team has called “a personal matter”.
As a result🎐, Haas director of engineering Ayao Komatsu has been drafted in to assume race engineer duties for Mazepin in Haines’s absence.
Komatsu has pl🍌enty of experience in the role꧙ of race engineer, having worked alongside Grosjean in the position during the Frenchman’s tenure with Haas between 2016 and 2018.
The pair ♍previously worked together at Lotus, with Komatsu carrying out the same role for Grosjean since 201🎀2.
Komatsu was then promoted to director of engineeringও at the Amer✃ican outfit for the 2019 season.
As part of his wide-ranging role, Komatsu is responsible for managing all trackside engineering activitie𝔉s 𒁏on-site, and back in the factory working with a team of engineers.
Mazepin heads into this weekend's race 2🃏1st in the 2021 drivers' world championship, with a best result of 14th achieved in the Azerbaijan Grand Prix.
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