Nico Hulkenberg Interview: Talking Le Mans and His Formula 1 Future

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Published: June 13, 2015

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MONTREAL — It is one of the great mysteries of the modern world, like Bigfoot or the Loch Ness monster: Why has the extremely talented Nico Hulkenberg spent his entire Formula One career languishing with midfield teams while other drivers have progressed up the grid?

For some insight, we turned to the man himself who, in addition to his F1 duties with Force India, is channelling his inner Graham Hill or Jacky Ickx and racing in this year's 24 Hours of Le Mans for Porsche.

As Hulkenberg sits in Force India's hospitality area in the Circuit Gilles-Villeneuve's paddock, ready to begin the interview, he playfully, repeatedly thwarts a photographer's attempt to snap a photo of him.

After some chatter about flights and jet lag, with the 27-year-old German stretching and yawning, he drops his hat on the table—flat-brimmed, like Lewis Hamilton, Fernando Alonso and the other cool kids are wearing—and shifts into interview mode: sitting upright, speaking with a loud, clear voice. His sunglasses, Ray-Bans, stay on.

"It's about timing," he says pragmatically when asked the reasons for his career's slow progression. "Obviously it's a time where we have a lot of good drivers on the market and the market is very competitive and there's only a limited amount of seats in the top teams.

"Look at the three big teams—they don't have bad drivers in there, so it's not easy for them to change it and say, 'Put Hulkenberg in there,' because they're doing a good job, too, and it's just how things fall.

"But I am a fighter and I will keep fighting and I think eventually I will get my opportunity."

He does not seem bitter, or even disappointed, despite his near misses. From 2010 to 2014, he moved from Williams to Force India to Sauber and then back to Force India but somehow seemed to miss those teams' best years along the way—Sauber in 2012, for example, o...
Article Source: Bleacher Report - Formula 1

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