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Mazepin will not lose F1 super license – Todt

Mar.8 Jean Todt has defended his decision to stay out of the Nikita Mazepin ‘groping' affair. Social media users have been applying intense pressure on Haas and Formula 1 to act on the alleged wrongdoing of the 21-year-old Russian rookie driver. But FIA president Todt said it wouldn't be fair to take Mazepin's super license away. 'It's not easy to get the 40 points for the super license,' the Frenchman Cambridge Union Society. 'Anyone who gets those points can be in the series, so to stop him would be discrimination.' However, Todt admitted that Mazepin needs to be careful about his conduct going forwards. 'Frankly I'm not happy about the situation,' he said. 'He has been warned...
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