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

The decision came after Russi🦄a invad💯ed Ukraine on Thursday morning.

Uralkali - a Russian ꩵfertilizer company - has been Haas’ title spo🉐nsor since the start of the 2021 season.

It 🌳is owned by Nikita Mazepin’s father Dmitry, who has close links to Russia’s president Vladimir Putไin.

Speaking to the media on Friday in Barcelona, Steiner said: “We 🐓removed it yesterday, we have to sort out all th🌊e 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 decisi🅷on 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 continue to race as nor🍬mal in 2022.

Mazepin’s future with theℱ team is also unclear, with Steiner saying “it needs to be resolve🦩d”.

“He puts a tough face on it,” Steiner said when asked about Mazepin. “For sure it bothers him, because it’s his own country, Russia. About guarantees, 🌱there are no guarantees anywhere, as I said before we need to see how this whole thing d﷽evelops. 

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