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F1 Beyond The Grid

30 Days of BTG – Day 19: Nico Hulkenberg’s podium push

F1 Beyond The Grid

karenellenbevan

News, Leisure, Sports News, Sports, Automotive

4.75.3K Ratings

🗓️ 17 February 2023

⏱️ 8 minutes

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Summary

The Hulk is back in Formula 1, and he’s hunting a first podium finish. Revisit Nico’s 2019 interview on times a top three finish narrowly eluded him and his love of classic road cars. Tom Clarkson is choosing 30 highlights from the BTG archive in the run-up to brand new episodes, starting Wednesday March 1st.

To get to know Nico before his F1 return, listen to his full BTG interview here 

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Hi everyone. Hope you've had a good week. It's Tom Clarkson with 30 days of Beyond the

0:39.6

Grid and for day 19. We have a driver whose last full F1 season was 2019.

0:46.7

Nico Holkamburg. He's made a few substitute appearances in recent seasons, but this year

0:52.1

the Holk will be back on the grid full time with Hass. Now the stat you're going to hear a lot

0:58.4

this season is that Nico has started more than 180 races in Formula One and has yet to score a win

1:05.5

or a podium. And when we spoke on Beyond the Grid back in 2019, I asked him about that.

1:11.6

It hasn't happened for a few reasons. I mean there were a few opportunities where it could have

1:15.5

happened. Like Monaco 2016 was one of them, but we made a bad strategy call or the team did at

1:21.4

the time and it went bad and we lost out there. Brazil 12. Brazil 12 where I threw it away a

1:31.7

little bit by attacking Luis there. But I was leading the race also with a minute before the

1:36.1

safety car came out. So that would have been almost a guaranteed win. But the safety car had me

1:40.6

over there. If you go into every weekend or every opportunity there is a reason or an issue

1:46.8

somewhere. So for one reason or another it hasn't happened. So of course that's in a way annoying

1:52.0

and not nice. But yeah, the way it is, I can't change the past. So I have to focus on the future

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