On Thursday evening, Haas 💦announced it would no longer be running its Russian-themed Uralkali livery for the remainder of the test.

The decision came after Russia invaded Ukr🏅aine on Thursday morning.

Uralkal🦩i - a Russian fertilizer company - hꦗas been Haas’ title sponsor since the start of the 2021 season.

It is owned by Nikita Mazepin’s fa♊ther Dmitry, who has clo💮se links to Russia’s president Vladimir Putin.

Speaking to the media on Friday in Barcelona, Steiner💞 said: “We removed it yesterday, we have to sort out all the legal stuff, which I cannot speak about, next week. We will work through it next week. 

“I said I’m not going to go through it today, we made the decisio🌞n yesterday with our team partners that this is what we’re going to do. I need to work on the rest next week.”

Even if Haas is to lose Uralkali as a title sponsor, Steiner is confident the team will be able to cꦡontinue to race as normal in 2022.

Mazepin’s future with the team is also unclear, with Steiner saying “it needs to be resolvedꦚ”.

“He puts a tough face on it,” Steiner said when asked about Mazepin. “For sure it bothers him, because it’s his ownᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ𒀱ᩚᩚᩚ country, Russia. About guarantees, there are no guarantees anywhere, as I said before we need to see ho🍨w this whole thing develops. 

“There’s more than F1 teams here, thꦓere’s governments involved, so I have no guarantees from that side.”