EU sanctions imposed on Formula 1 driver Nikita Mazepin have been quashed by the EU courts in a judgment released today (20 March). In March 2022, Mazepin was barred from entering the EU and had funds frozen in retaliation for Russia’s war in Ukraine. His team, Haas, also promptly canceled his driving contract, as well as its sponsorship deal with Uralkali, a Russian fertiliser company owned by Mazepin’s oligarch father Dmitry. “The association between Mr Nikita Mazepin and his father is in no way established from an economic or capital perspective” by EU legislators, the EU’s General Court sa…