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Nico Hülkenberg soon to be firmly in Formula 1? Top team knocks - He returns the flirt

2020-10-22T19:49:09.008Z


Nico Hülkenberg once again demonstrated his class on the Nürburgring. Now apparently even a top team is making advances for him. Formula 1 * : Is there something going on between Red Bull * and Nico Hülkenberg ? The German drove sensationally at the Nürburgring - but still doesn't have a cockpit for the new season. There was already contact between Hülkenberg and the top team. Update from October


Nico Hülkenberg once again demonstrated his class on the Nürburgring.

Now apparently even a top team is making advances for him.

  • Formula 1 *

    :

    Is there something going on between

    Red Bull *

    and

    Nico Hülkenberg

    ?

  • The German drove

    sensationally

    at the

    Nürburgring

    - but still doesn't have a cockpit for the new season.

  • There was already contact between Hülkenberg and the top team.

Update from October 18, 9:30 a.m.:

Will

Nico Hülkenberg

actually find a job with

Red Bull

after his sensational assignments as a replacement driver for Racing Point

?

The Emmericher would be anything but averse to this chance.

“Measured in terms of the car, it is the best option that is the most attractive.

It's a competitive car, ”said 33-year-old in an interview with the

motorsport-magazin.com

portal

.

He doesn't shy away

from the top dog

Max Verstappen there

either: “I would like to find out, measure myself against him.

Let's see if it comes to that. "

In

Bild am Sonntag

(interview behind a payment barrier),

Hülkenberg

also

stated

that he is aiming for a permanent cockpit in Formula 1: “In the

long run, a

firefighter

would be the classic substitute driver role again.

That's not what I'm striving for. ”There have been teams that would have signed him after his first

Racing Point outing at Silverstone

.

But the right one was probably not there yet.

"Hülk" also makes it clear after 179 F1 appearances: "A

regular cockpit

has priority for me." Although that might not turn out to be so easy, because in the

"premier class"

it's not just about performance: "Under I'm not the hood yet.

But still on.

Other drivers are

perhaps more economically attractive for the teams

. "

Formula 1: Nico Hülkenberg impresses at the Nürburgring

First report from October 13th:

Nürburgring - Last in qualifying without training, eighth place in the race and driver of the day:

Nico Hülkenberg

delivered at the

Grand Prix of the Eifel

at the

Nürburgring

as a substitute driver in an impressive way.

And not for the first time - he already

knew how

to impress

at

Racing Point *

at

Silverstone

.

Despite all this, it is possible that the Emmericher will be in

Formula 1 *

without a cockpit in 2021

.

Apparently, however, a great opportunity is opening up for him.

Formula 1: Nico Hülkenberg to Red Bull?

Racing team is considering Germans

Red Bull motorsport consultant

Helmut Marko

dropped the bomb on Sunday evening: “We were already talking to Hülkenberg on Friday.” But it was not about 2021. Because Red Bull driver

Alexander Albon had

an inconclusive Corona test result, Marko said the German "contacted immediately after landing".

Nothing came of it.

Marko nevertheless praised Hülkenberg for his performance in the Eifel: “We followed his times.

I saw then that he gradually got closer to Perez's time.

Hats off.

A great achievement ”.

from a coffee in cologne to P8 in a never expected HomeGP 2020 .. wtf happened this weekend ?!

🤠 # hulkenback # 2.0 # f1 pic.twitter.com/WYPPt2cKI0

- Nico Hulkenberg (@HulkHulkenberg) October 11, 2020

“Hulkenback” has one thing in common

with the Mexican

Sergio Perez

: Both are still looking for a new team for the next season, because Perez will soon be replaced by

Sebastian Vettel *

who will replace

Aston Martin *

from next season

(currently still Racing Point) drives.

It is also interesting that Marko does not rule out the possibility of looking for new drivers outside of his own squad.

Usually that speaks against the philosophy of the racing team.

“We can safely name the names that are currently available on the market.

That's Hulkenberg and that's Perez, ”said Marko soberly.

Formula 1: Nico Hülkenberg could replace Alexander Albon at Red Bull - good connection to Verstappen

Alexander Albon is always in discussion - he did not make it into the top 10 at the weekend and is

always clearly behind

his teammate

Max Verstappen

.

Marko protects him: “Alex was unlucky when he got a brake plate on the first lap.

The performance after that was quite appealing ”.

Dealing with external drivers is “a theory”, at the moment everything is still on track at Albon.

Hülkenberg has a good relationship with Max Verstappen, the two of them talk in Dutch.

A good relationship among drivers can be worth gold for Formula 1 teams, because there are regular crashes among teammates.

There

is consensus in the grid

that the Emmericher has earned a solid place in

Formula 1 in

purely sporting terms.

Whether

Abiteboul

(Renault *),

Szafnauer

(Racing Point) or

Seidl

(McLaren *) - the team bosses are blowing the same horn in this regard.

👋Welcome again - Welcome back.



💗 # Hulkenback pic.twitter.com/i4thdNcCgr

- Tutkumuz F1 🏎 (@ F1tutkumuz) October 10, 2020

Formula 1: Nico Hulkenberg does not have many options - Albon performance should decide

But similar to the

national soccer team

, the pure performance principle is

not always decisive

in

Formula 1

either.

The options for Hülkenberg are few and far between - at

Alfa Romeo *

the seat next to

Kimi Räikkönen

seems to be

preheated

for

Mick Schumacher *

, the 33-year-old doesn't want to go to Haas, as he suggested between the door and the hinge at the Eifel GP.

Whether things will soon get serious between “Hulk” and Red Bull will mainly be decided by Albon's further performances, because Marko remembers: “If he continues to deliver good races, then he will have his cockpit for the next year”.

(epp)

* tz.de is part of the Ippen editorial network.

List of rubric lists: © Jens Büttner / dpa

Source: merkur

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