Hulkenberg: “Would have been nice to start” where Sauber currently is
On his own verdict of the year so far, Nico Hulkenberg has praised his Sauber team for “heading in the right direction” with its progress over the year.
He conceded that he’d have preferred to start the year where the team is, rather than its earlier position well behind the rest of the order, but accepts that the team was on a different path.
“It’s definitely more positive than anything else. If you consider and look from winter testing where we started the first couple of races, then since Barcelona, five races consecutively in the points, a podium, a couple of you know really strong drives and performances from us. I think the trend is right.
“It would have been would have been nice to start there, but you know it came different, but definitely recently I think we are heading in the right direction.
“It remains the same thing in the midfield, or there’s basically 5 teams that are very, very close to each other and depending on the day, on the circuit, on the conditions, it swings around a bit, the momentum.”
On the Belgian GP stop that took him out of the points: “I don’t think I would have survived. I was struggling with my front tyres and it was 12 laps to go 13, and you know just a combination of things on the setup that wasn’t ideal in hindsight and put us in that position.
“I called it, I was not happy and it wasn’t going well. I arrived back to the to the pack, but the train was difficult to get through quickly. I have no big regrets about that.”
Nico Hulkenberg, Sauber
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