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9 Apr 2020, 03:11 (Ref:3969485) | #1 | |
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Could Nico Hülkenberg profit from the COVID 19 break?
Unlike the other drivers, he didn't have a seat for 2020 to begin with.
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Probably not, unless he has been secretly manufacturing ventilators in his spare time.
He will still have no seat and there may well be even less seats available soon anyways. |
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Just where would he fit in? AFAIK no drivers' on the current grid have any health problems and I doubt any new teams would come in at this current time. I just can't see it happening myself
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I'm afraid you're right. It's stupid, but that's the way modern F1 goes. IMHO Günther Steiner should have signed him instead of Grosjean - who only scared eight points last season, if I'm honest, he should be out of F1 - and since he's from South Tyrol (Italian on the paper only ), he would've had a driver that speaks his mother language then. Or would there have been a problems with Hulk and Magnussen being in the same team?
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It’s a shame Hulk is no longer fashionable in F1 terms. He still can do a good job. I wonder just how much his height has counted against him
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No, unless a team wants to risk another van der Garde situation. |
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Let's hope his F1 career is far from over yet. He is 32, but Kimi is still not thinking about retiring at age 40, and Fangio became World Champion at age 46, when safety was not an issue, and now that safety IS an issue, age should be none. |
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Hulk could afford to put his price down a bit, after all his experience would be invaluable
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You may be correct, but if those that decide such things agreed with you he wouldn’t be out of a job. And I suspect they’ve seen more of him than most have. I’m not saying he isn’t good, just maybe not quite good enough.
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He has shown some great performances with mediocre cars, even though unlike Checo Perez he wasn't able to make a Top 3 out of them. At least he has shown that he is the opposite of a coward, sadly it didn't go well for him then, see Sao Paulo 2012 and Hockenheim 2019. Overall I would say he was indeed 'born in the wrong generation', his driving style reminds me a lot of the 90's (Heinz-Harald Frentzen).
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It's almost like the F1 bosses never wanted him on the podium
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I understand. I think he’s a good driver, who hasn’t for whatever reason been able to snatch top results when chances fell his way.
He is very confident in his ability and wants paying top money, which is a challenge when others will do it for a lot less, or even pay massively for the privilege, like Stroll, Norris or Latifi. He got paid enormous money to drive for Renault and really didn’t deliver did he? |
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