Magnussen and teammate Romain Grosjean were replaced by rookies Mick Schumacher and Nikita Mazepin for 2021, largely for financial reasons.
But after Haas terminated Mazepin's contract in the wake of Russia's invasion of Ukraine, due to the Mazepin family's links with the Russian Kremlin, Magnussen was brought back in from the cold and given a second chance alongside Schumacher.
