Nico Hulkenberg

[Tony Holder]

26 might be, too old to be groomed anyway Franz!!

Can't see him back at Williams.... Is he going back to Force India?

 

[Terry Rock]

Given Sauber's obvious chassis improvements...coupled with the financial injection from Russian interest, Nico might do well to stay for another year.
Lotus has not indicated whether they're stable financially...neither has FI.

 

[Bram Hengeveld]

Again an ace result in the USGP qualifying. How much longer can this guy be ignored by the real top teams? What more does he need to show?

 

[Calum McLure]

Again an ace result in the USGP qualifying. How much longer can this guy be ignored by the real top teams? What more does he need to show?

One of these

 

[Chris Jenkins]

Remember as well that he's a big guy.
With how advanced most teams will be in the designing & building of their 2014 cars, he'll be a big lump to try and squeeze in, to both the car and the weight limit.

 

[Jimlaad43]

So Nico will compete in the 2015 Le Mans 24 Hours for Porsche
http://www.autosport.com/news/report.php/id/116960

He's still a Force India F1 driver for 2015, this is just a one off appearance. You'd have thought however that something like this should happen more often, current F1 drivers having a go at Le Mans.

 

[Nelson Ullinskey]

this is just a one off appearance.

You sure? I found this is the Racer.com version of this story:

"Porsche has signed the German for the third 919 Hybrid entry that it announced earlier this week, and will also field him in the Spa round of the World Endurance Championship in preparation."

Here's a link for the skeptics: Le Mans/WEC - WEC: Hulkenberg joins Porsche for Le Mans

 

[Jimlaad43]

You sure? I found this is the Racer.com version of this story:

"Porsche has signed the German for the third 919 Hybrid entry that it announced earlier this week, and will also field him in the Spa round of the World Endurance Championship in preparation."

Here's a link for the skeptics: Le Mans/WEC - WEC: Hulkenberg joins Porsche for Le Mans

So he'll do Spa too then - "in preparation [for Le Mans]"

 

[mystaaRS]

Maybe he is seeking a move to WEC if he cannot secure a top team seat for 2016.

 

[Chris Jenkins]

Surprising that Force India let him do this.
There's still fatal crashes in Le Mans 24hr!

 

[Ole Marius Myrvold]

And we still don't know if there was a fatal crash in F1 in 2014 or not.
We've had 3 fatal crashes in the last 30 years in both F1 and Le Mans, so I don't the issue there.

However - it seems like Bernie and CVC is shitting their pants. Moving the Chinese GP to clash with WEC at Silverstone, and then putting in Korea as the 21st GP of 2015, making it clash with WEC at Spa - the race Hülkenberg was supposed to do as a 'race-test' before Le Mans (and it is rumoured that Alonso will do as well).